Healthy Cities Policies and Resources
The drop-down menus below give examples of policies and resources from cities within and outside of the County of Santa Clara that are applicable to policy strategies listed on the Healthy Cities Dashboard. This is not a comprehensive list of model policies passed by local cities. If your city has adopted a model policy from the Healthy Cities Dashboard, and you would like to link it below, please contact the Healthy Cities team at [email protected].
Model Policies and Resources by Policy Category
- Complete Streets Guidelines
- Vision Zero Plan
- Parks Master Plan
Urban Forestry Plan
- Standards for Meetings and Celebrations, Events, Vending Machines, City-Run Programming, and City-Run Cafes or Cafeterias
- County of Santa Clara (link will prompt downloading a document)
- Adopt and Implement a Tobacco Retail License (TRL)
- Conduct Enforcement to Verify Retailers Are Not Selling Tobacco to Minors
- Flavored Tobacco Restrictions
- Reduce Density of Tobacco Outlets
Safe Storage of Firearms
Suicide Prevention Policy
Resolution Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis
- County of Santa Clara (link will prompt downloading a document)
Resources for Racial Equity Action Teams, Plans, and Tools
- Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) general resources on advancing racial equity in government
- GARE Racial Equity Core Teams
- GARE Racial Equity Action Plan How-to Manual
- GARE Racial Equity Toolkit
- Health Language in General Plan
- Milpitas
- California Governor's Office General Plan Guidelines
- Health Element
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