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Environmental Health Coalition

Learn how the Environmental Health Coalition addressed air quality and land use issues in Barrio Logan, improving the health and well-being of residents, especially children with asthma. Discover the community demands for future development and the importance of ARB Air Quality-Land Use Guidance.

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Environmental Health Coalition

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  1. Environmental Health Coalition Case Study on Barrio Logan ARB Study Session on Air Quality and Land Use October 4, 2004

  2. Living next door to Master Plating… • Child living next door had severe asthma • Frequent school absences, emergency room visits • Parents had trouble maintaining a job due to frequent hospital visits • Couldn’t go to park, beach, etc, because frequently had to be plugged into a breathing machine • Since Master Plating closed • No emergency room visits • Switched to normal asthma medication • Behavioral problems from prior intense medication have evaporated

  3. Community Demands for Future Development • Relocate small industrial toxics sources • No buildings over three stories • More community services: Library, mail, pharmacy, sports and education, etc. • No housing development next to waterfront industries and freeways • More affordable rental housing

  4. Importance of ARB Air Quality- Land Use Guidance • Tool to prevent future land-use problems • Very important on zoning/planning context • Critical information given push towards “smart growth”, industrial/residential co-location • Importance in short-term (acute) and long-term impacts • Tool which could assist in redevelopment of existing mixed industrial-residential areas • Guidance for rezoning • Guidance for identifying priorities for relocation • Guidance for development of infill housing at safe distances from industrial waterfront, freeways

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