What were the goals of ENCHIA?
Build public dialogue about how land use planning affects the health of the city, its neighborhoods and its people. Influence city land use policies and policy-making processes to account for long range health impacts. Improve interdepartmental cooperation to achieve community health goals. Support implementation of deliberative, consensus-building processes as a means of problem-solving community issues. • What was the impetus for ENCHIA? Like many metropolitan areas, San Francisco contends with multiple, and often competing, interests and needs when it makes decisions regarding economic and land use development. Ideally, City decisions will strike the right balance among social, economic, and environmental interests. In order to do this, the public health effects of planning decisions should be included as considerations by policy makers. The underlying aim of most public policies, laws and institutions, particularly those concerned with land use, transportation, and the environment,
