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Equitable Development Drivers continued <br />Practice meaningful community engagement. Require local community participation <br />and leadership in decision-making to reflect a diversity of voices, including targeted <br />strategies to engage racial populations that are most disproportionately harmed by <br />disinvestment. Build cultural competence and responsiveness among all stakeholders, <br />and structure planning processes to be clear, accessible, and engaging. <br />Develop healthy and safe communities. Create built environments that enhance <br />community health through public amenities (schools, parks, open spaces, complete <br />streets, health care, and other services), access to affordable healthy food, improved <br />air quality, and safe and inviting environments. <br /> Promote environmental justice. Eliminate disproportionate environmental burdens <br />and ensure an equitable share of environmental benefits for existing communities. <br />Secure resources to mitigate and reverse the effects of environmental hazards past <br />and present. <br /> Achieve full accessibility. Ensure that results from investments in the built <br />environment is accessible and welcoming to people regardless of age, race or <br />ethnicity, physical condition, or language. <br />These drivers are not designed to be <br />deployed independently; their inter- <br />relationship is fundamental to undoing <br />the structural racism perpetuating <br />current disparities. If implemented <br />piecemeal or in isolation, they will <br />result in transactional wins that do not <br />produce lasting change. The Equitable <br />Development Framework presents an <br />integrated fabric of strategies to close <br />racial inequities. Used together, these <br />drivers have the potential to transform <br />systems and shift from the current <br />trajectory of growth that marginalizes <br />many populations and compromises the <br />diversity that makes communities strong. <br />3