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Educate yourself about healthy community design, find resources to help you build trails and other green places, and learn more about building bikeability and walkability into your community.

Comprehensive Resources

• A Resource Guide to Creating Active Community Environments in Colorado
  This guide, produced by the Liveable Communities Support Center, contains a comprehensive set of resources to initiate and implement environmental and policy changes in the built environment to expand opportunities for active living in Colorado communities.

Community Planning – Colorado Resources

• Colorado Department of Local Affairs
  The DOLA works in cooperation with local communities, providing financial and technical assistance, emergency management services, property tax administration and programs addressing affordable housing and homelessness.

• Colorado Center for Community Development
  The Colorado Center for Community Development (CCCD) is a joint outreach center of the University of Colorado Denver, and technical assistance outreach program of the College of Architecture and Planning. CCCD provides Colorado Communities with design and planning assistance on community development, community service issues, and architecture and planning services.

• Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute
  The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute servse the public interest as an interdisciplinary, non-partisan forum for land use and environmental issues in the Rocky Mountain West. The Institute operates under the guidance of both regional and national advisory boards, the members of which are leading academics and practitioners in the fields of law, planning, development, and design.

Community Planning – National Resources

• Active Living by Design
  This organization creates community-led change by working with local and national partners to build a culture of active living and healthy eating.  

• The Active Living Network
  The Active Living Network provides tools and resources for promoting active living and healthy community design. 

• Active Living Resource Center
  The Active Living Resource Center provides technical assistance to help make positive changes in communities, and includes fact sheets, how-to documents, an experts directory and other resources. 

• Agriburbia
  Agriburbia is a design movement that combines agrarianism with land development.  Using characteristics of New Urbanism, modernism and historic preservation, and other sustainable principles, Agriburbia combines social, cultural, physical and financial characteristics from urban and rural lifestyles to create an entirely new landuse concept.

• Complete the Streets
  The National Complete Streets Coalition seeks to fundamentally transform the look, feel and function of the roads and streets in our community, by changing the way most roads are planned, designed, and constructed.  

• CDC Healthy Places Resources
  The CDC provides comprehensive resources, studies and toolkits for designing healthy communities.  

• Congress for the New Urbanism
  This group promotes walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. CNU takes a proactive, multi-disciplinary approach to restoring communities.  

• Environmental Finance Center
  The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of Maryland is one of nine University-based centers across the country providing communities with the tools and information necessary to manage change for a healthy environment and an enhanced quality of life. 

• International City Manager’s Association
  ICMA's website includes a wealth of free publications on all aspects of HEAL and Smart Growth. 

• Local Initiatives Support Corporation
  Information and resources from this group will help community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity.

• The Prevention Institute
  The prevention institute creates systematic, comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health. The organization builds on the successes of a variety of fields and applies them to new challenges in fields such as injury and violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development.  

• Public Health Institute
  This comprehensive site includes toolkits for building health into general plans, zoning, economic development and redevelopment of communities. 

• Urban Land Institute
  ULI facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information and experience among local, national and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places.  

• Walkable Communities, Inc.
  Offers services to help large and small cities, neighborhoods, school districts, parks and roadway corridors to improve transportation efficiency and create whole, healthy, happy lives. Increased walkability also helps improve resource responsibility, safety, physical fitness and social interaction.

Recreation – Colorado Resources

• Colorado Parks and Recreation Association
  CPRA is Colorado’s membership organization for parks and recreation professionals, providing education and professional growth opportunities.

• Colorado State Parks
  Look here for information about Colorado’s state parks.

Recreation – National Resources

• American Trails
  This organization helps communities develop local, regional, and long-distance trails and greenways in backcountry, rural or urban areas.

• Creating Safe Places to Play: The Launch of jointuse.org
  In partnership with Berkley Media Studies Group, Prevention Institute proudly announces the launch of a new interactive website dedicated to helping create safe places for children in all communities to play and be active. By showcasing successes as well as the problem.

• National Recreation and Parks Association
  NRPA is the national membership organization for parks and recreation professionals, providing education and professional growth opportunities.  

• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
  This non-profit organization works with communities to preserve unused rail corridors by transforming them into trails.

• Trust for Public Land
  This national, non-profit, land conservation organization conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places.

Transportation – Colorado Resources

• Bicycle Colorado
  The mission of Bicycle Colorado is to encourage and promote bicycling, increase safety, improve conditions, and provide a voice for cyclists in Colorado.  

• Colorado Department of Transportation
  CDOT's website includes information on construction specifications and policy, as well as specific programs that provide guidance and, in some cases, funding, including Safe Routes to School, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality and Enhancements, as well as a bike/ped page. 

• Denver Regional Council of Governments
  The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) fosters regional cooperation between county and municipal governments in the Denver metropolitan area. 

• Denver’s Regional Transportation District (RTD)
  RTD manages public transit and alternative transportation programs in the Denver metro area.

• Living Streets Initiative
  Partners at Rocky Mountain PBS have completed six 1-minute interstitials on: What are Living Streets?; Living Streets and Bikes; Living Streets and Economic Development; Living Streets and the Environment; Living Streets and Public Health; Living Streets and Neighborhoods.

Transportation – National Resources

• Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
  This professional membership organization offers resources and education for professionals working in pedestrian and bicycle transportation.   

• Institute of Transportation Engineers
  This community of transportation professionals acts as a source for expertise, knowledge and ideas. 

• The Smart Transportation Guidebook
  Developed through a partnership between PennDOT and the New Jersey Department of Transportation, this guidebook helps planners to integrate the planning and design of transportation systems in a manner that fosters development of sustainable and livable communities.