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AZ’s Community Planning Matrix

By |2017-02-10T09:50:26-07:00May 14th, 2013|General|

Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about how a city’s General Plan is one tool for communities to define how they want their city or town to grow and improve population health and how city planning can have a real impact.  I wrote about how community residents can use a recently developed Toolkit put [...]

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The “Community Plan”

By |2017-02-10T09:50:27-07:00May 7th, 2013|General|

Strategic community planning is an effective tool to improve population health.  That’s why organizations like the Livable Communities Coalition are so important as they help Arizona communities to become places that improve those social and environmental determinants of health that make such a big impact on population health and public health outcomes.  But how do [...]

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Coming Soon: A Marijuana Dispensary Near You?

By |2010-10-06T11:41:49-07:00October 6th, 2010|General|

Will a marijuana dispensary pop up in your neighborhood at the old payday loan store?  It depends.  If the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act passes, there could be up to 120 dispensaries (and their indoor cultivation facilities) setting up shop across the state.  Where they actually go will depend on what kind of local zoning restrictions [...]

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