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Overview of the Oakland Healthy Development Guidelines
Land use planning is an important tool that can be used to empower communities to create and achieve a
vision for healthy and equitable neighborhoods. With this in mind, East Oakland Building Healthy
Communities, the City of Oakland Planning and Building Department, and the Alameda County Public
Health Department have partnered together to create a new and unique planning tool called the Oakland
Healthy Development Guidelines.
The Healthy Development Guidelines, a collection of relevant policies (current and proposed), are a
planning framework and tool for new development in Oakland that aims to advance health equity and
community engagement in the City’s planning and development review process. Oakland residents and
leaders, architects, developers, community organizations, and other stakeholders contributed to the
development of these Guidelines. The standards in the guidelines reflect the priorities of this broad
group of Oakland stakeholders with a particular focus on lifting up the voice of historically
undrepressented Oakland residents of color. The Guidelines address community-identified problems
related to development that disproportionately affect low-income communities of color in Oakland and
are based on the principles of health equity, which are grounded in the understanding that everyone in
Oakland -- no matter who you are, where you live, how much money you make, or the color of your skin - deserves the opportunity to lead a healthy, fulfilling, and productive life.
Participants
The following Oakland residents and leaders that face the impacts of unequal development on a day-today basis, contributed their time and expertise to establish and set the priorities for the Guidelines:
Jordan Aberra, Paula Beal, Ronnesha Cato, Leon Davis, Aaron Davis Jr., Mercedes Dela Torre, Cesar
Fragoso, Kim Frazier, Gilbert Gipson, Esther Goolsby, Diana Jauvegui, Redanna Johnson, Joevonte Kelly,
Kelton King Jr., Timberlie Laramie, Kasandra Macias, Terrance McClellan Jr., Sandra Muniz, Marina Muñoz,
Assata Olugowla, Johnnie Parker, Luis Ramirez, Demaria Shapiro, Towanda Sherry, Karen Smulevitz,
Mustafah Solomon, Bernadette Tatom, Rhonda Walters, Azuri Whitlock, Princess Beverly Williams with a
special dedication to the late, Bernadette Tatom, for her commitment to this project.
The process to create the Guidelines was led by a team from East Oakland Building Healthy Communities
– including Causa Justa::Just Cause, Communities for a Better Environment, East Bay Housing
Organizations and HOPE Collaborative – the Alameda County Public Health Department, and the City of
Oakland Planning and Building Department, with assistance from Raimi + Associates and ChangeLab
Solutions.
Additional rganizational participants include: Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan's Office, East Bay Alliance
for a Sustainable Economy, East Bay Asian Local Development Corp, East Bay Housing Organizations, East
Oakland Building Healthy Communities Land Use Workgroup, Eastside Cultural Center, Habitat for
Humanity – East Bay, HOPE Collaborative, Oakland Food Policy Council, Okamoto Saijo Architecture,
Nautilus Group, PlaceWorks, Signature Development Group, Street Level Health and TransForm.
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