Chapter 5
Measures for Advancing Health and Equity: Process Measures
Process measures focus on facilitating greater community participation and decision-making in the process of land use planning. The chapter includes 16 process measures organized into 3 categories: Community-Centered Development, Inclusive Engagement, and Accountability.
The community-centered development category includes strategies to help projects align with community priorities and needs, ideally through a collaborative process working side by side with community-based organizations. The inclusive engagement category is crucial to all phases of project development to ensure that outreach is inclusive, accessible, culturally competent and respects community experience and capacity. Finally, the accountability section is intended to provide community members with methods to hold project proponents accountable for their commitments.