SB827: Difference between revisions

<span style="font-size:larger;">'''Articles & Studies Documenting Adverse Health Impact of Building Adjacent to Freeways & Major Roads'''

</span>'''SB827 would result in concentrating development around transit corridors and hubs. Typically these locations are immediately adjacent to freeways and major roads. SB827 goes so far as to increase height limits for more major roads - raising the height limit to 85 feet where development is adjacent to roads 45 feet or wider.'''

'''University of Southern California, Living Near Busy Roads or Traffic Pollution'''

[http://envhealthcenters.usc.edu/infographics/infographic-living-near-busy-roads-or-traffic-pollution/references-living-near-busy-roads-or-traffic-pollution http://envhealthcenters.usc.edu/infographics/infographic-living-near-busy-roads-or-traffic-pollution/references-living-near-busy-roads-or-traffic-pollution]

Contains links to multiple documented studies from respected organizations identifying health risks relating to:

'''Children:''' Asthma, ear nose and throat infections, smaller lungs, obesity

'''Adults: '''Heart disease, stroke, heart attacks, lung problems, memory, shortened lifespan

'''LA Times: L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick, March 2nd 2017'''

[http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-freeway-pollution/ http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-freeway-pollution/]

'''World Health Organization: Health Effects of Transport Related Air Pollution, 2005'''

''' CNN:&nbsp;locating housing near transit corridors increase dementia risk, study says,&nbsp;January 4, 2017'''