Beach budgets to assess becoming a Blue Zone city

Written by Janetssy Lugo on August 6, 2024

Miami Beach is set to become a Blue Zones city as the $220,000 budget needed for a six-month assessment was approved by city officials.

The initiative is a community-wide well-being improvement project, says the commission memo, and is designed to make healthy choices easier. These actions are accomplished by “encouraging sustainable changes in the built environment, building environments and social networks, and often supporting locally driven policy changes throughout a community including such places as worksites, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, faith-based communities, convenience stores, and neighborhoods.”

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