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Additional Resources• Public Health, Socioeconomic, and Equity Impacts• x San Francisco’s Healthy Development Measurement Tool (www.theHDMT.org) provides health-based rationales, goals, and indicators applicableto other jurisdictions. The San Francisco Public Health Department hasalso used it to generate a wide range of health-oriented maps, includingproximity to farmers markets, noise levels, bike collisions, and truckroutes.• x Issues and Opportunities Papers for the City of Richmond’s upcominggeneral plan update (http://www.cityofrichmondgeneralplan.org/docManager/1000000640/Existing%20Condictions%20Report%20August%202007.pdf) include a baseline assessment built largely from theframework of the Healthy Development Measurement Tool describedabove.• x The Oakland Health Profile (2004) includes maps comparing diabetes andchildhood asthma hospitalization rates across the city and county (PublicHealth Law and Policy, How to Create a Healthy General Plan, 2008).• x The San Jose area has a Health Heat Watch Warning System in place(CDPH, 2008).• Wildfire Resources• x California Fire Science Consortium, Central & South Coast Module:http://www.cafiresci.org/home-central-and-southern-ca/• x California Fire Alliance: http://cafirealliance.org/• x California FireSafe Council: http://www.firesafecouncil.org/• Biodiversity and Ecosystems• x California Department of Fish and Game. 2007. California Wildlife:Conservation Challenges - California’s Wildlife Action Plan. Sacramento.Retrieved from http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/wap/report.html• x The Wildlife Action Plan divides the state into regions. The Marineand Central Valley and Bay-Delta Regions overlap with the Bay Arearegion.APG: UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS PAGE 36