Health by Design urges Complete Streets, Safe Routes and form-based approaches to boost active living

Sep 10, 2026

Taylor Feuerstein of Health by Design presented to the Greenwood speaker series on how land use, Complete Streets and Safe Routes to School can improve public health, citing local transit access and data on life-expectancy patterns across the Indianapolis metro area.

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Taylor Feuerstein, director of Healthy Communities at Health by Design, told the Greenwood audience that roughly half of health outcomes are tied to socioeconomic factors in the built environment and that changing land-use policy can support healthier daily activity.

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