Healthy Neighborhoods for All

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What is Healthy Neighborhoods for All?

Healthy Neighborhoods for All means creating a vibrant and thriving Community where everyone can lead healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

The Healthy Neighborhoods for All Element is Morgan Hill’s Environmental Justice Element, fulfilling Senate Bill (SB) 1000, Planning for Healthy Communities Act, requirements. It identifies “Opportunity Neighborhoods” — areas disproportionately burdened by pollution, health risks, and limited access to community assets — and sets targeted goals, policies, and actions to address inequities in health, environment, and access to resources. 

Healthy Neighborhoods for All is a policy document included in the Morgan Hill 2035 General Plan (html) to make sure that everyone, regardless of race, national origin, income, or where they live, have clean air, safe homes, and a healthy environment, and the right to participate in local government.

Healthy Neighborhoods for All Element

The Healthy Neighborhoods for All Element (PDF), adopted by the City Council at their December 3, 2025 meeting (html), provides a decision-making framework for prioritizing capital projects, program funding, and policy changes. Future budget and planning priorities of the City will need to align with:

  1. Inclusive Public Engagement – Bilingual outreach, resident ambassadors, and barrier-free participation.
  2. Pollution Reduction – Air quality monitoring, truck route management, and land use buffers.
  3. Promote Physical Activity – Affordable recreation options and parks within Opportunity Neighborhoods.
  4. Food Access – Promote access to fresh affordable food, produce stands, and healthy food literacy.
  5. Safe and Healthy Homes – Affordable housing preservation, tenant protections, healthy home retrofits.
  6. Increase Overall Health – Health Education, mobile health services, increased transit access, and mitigate extreme heat.
  7. Public Facilities and Infrastructure – Safe routes to schools, lighting, public amenities, and active transportation networks in Opportunity Neighborhoods.

View the Adopted Healthy Neighborhoods for All Element here:

Healthy Neighborhoods for All - Background Review Report

Mapping pollution data and characteristic data provides an initial glance at areas throughout the city that carry a greater share of the impact of development patterns. The Healthy Neighborhoods for All Background Review Report was a mapping exercise utilized to visualize several data points and help identify challenges communities are facing.

Healthy Neighborhoods for All - Outreach and Engagement Summary

The development of the Healthy Neighborhoods for All Element relied on inclusive community input to inform the development of goals, policies, and actions. This document provides an overview of the steps taken to create opportunities for meaningful public input and gather feedback from the public. An overview of engagement events conducted, the project timeline, and overall strategy for outreach and engagement are provided within the report, followed by an engagement summary that will be used to inform the Healthy Neighborhoods for All Element.

Healthy Neighborhoods for All - Flyer

Healthy Neighborhoods for All - Survey

The Survey submission period has closed. Please refer to the Outreach and Engagement Summary report above for details on the survey results.

Why Are Healthy Neighborhoods for All Important?

Clean air, safe homes, and parks are the foundation of our Community's health, quality of life, and opportunities.

Some neighborhoods deal with more environmental issues than others, such as more pollution, limited access to grocery stores, public facilities and services, or have fewer parks and trails. Healthy Neighborhoods for All helps solves these issues by making sure everyone is treated fairly and that these communities get extra support and protection.

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Enhance
Address
  • Safe building conditions
  • Air quality
  • Neighborhoods lacking resources

  • Access to grocery stores and parks

  • Healthier communities
  • Community-driven needs
  • Participation in local

    government 

  • Well-being for all


“Opportunity Neighborhoods” (previously referred to as "Community of Concern" refers to neighborhoods impacted by pollution and other hazards and identified as low-income. A “low-income area" is defined as a place where household incomes are at or below 80% of the area median income. Within Morgan Hill, low-income for a family of 4 is $146,100 annually.

The below map identifies Morgan Hill's Opportunity Neighborhoods as identified by the State of California and recommended by the ¡Morgan Hill Prospera! steering committee.

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