Land Use Planning for Safe Crime-Free Neighborhoods

The design of our neighborhoods, streets, housing developments and parks can dramatically influence the way citizens feel about them and interact in them.

The free “Land Use Planning for Safe, Crime-Free Neighborhoods” fact sheet contains helpful resources and concepts for fostering a sense of community and safe neighborhoods. You can view and download the fact sheet (PDF, 428 KB). A color hard copy can be requested by calling the Local Government Commission at 916-448-1198, or 1-800-290-8202.

Land Use Planning for Safe Crime-Free Neighborhoods (PDF, 428 KB)

This project is funded by the Physical Activity and Health Initiative, California Department of Health Services under a Preventive Health Services Block Grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Work performed as part of a UC San Francisco contract.