The Tool
The Healthy Development Measurement Tool is comprised of a set of metrics to evaluate the extent to which land use plans, projects, or policies will advance human health. The HDMT is broadly organized into six Elements that comprise a Healthy City:
- Environmental Stewardship, Sustainable and Safe Transportation, Public Infrastructure, Social Cohesion, Adequate and Healthy Housing and Healthy Economy.
Within each Element, content is organized into a set of Community Health Objectives that, if achieved, would result in greater and more equitable health assets and resources for San Francisco residents.
Each objective includes the following resources:
- Community Health Indicators – San Francisco data and maps that provide a snapshot of baseline conditions in San Francisco, and help evaluate progress towards community health objectives.
- “Healthy Development” Targets – development criteria can be used to assess whether urban development plans and projects help achieve community health objectives.
- Policies and Design Strategies – a menu of potential actions that can be taken by project sponsors or policy makers to achieve development targets in the checklist and advance community health objectives.
- Health-based Rationales – research that describe the nexus between community health objectives and physical and mental health.
Please refer to HDMT Instructions to learn how to use the HDMT.
The diagram below depicts the relationship of the HDMT's components:
