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Walkable Communities

Assess how walkable your community is using the Walkability Checklist available here. You'll find insightful questions, allowing you to evaluate your neighborhood's walkability plus immediate answers and long-term solutions to your neighborhood's pedestrian problems.

Walkability Checklist

Glatting Jackson 72nd Ave. PowerPoint

Designing Healthy Communities

Dr. Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH, is the Associate Director for Science in the Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services in the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. 

Dr. Dannenberg oversees activities in NCEH related to examining the health aspects of community design including land use, transportation, urban planning, and other issues related to the built environment.  Dr. Dannenberg is currently working on numerous research projects, educational curricula and developmental activities, including using health impact assessment as a tool to inform community planners and co-teaching a course on Health and Built Environment at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and Georgia Institute of Technology. 

To view the slides from Dr. Dannenberg’s recent presentation on community design and public health to the Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission’s Healthiest Communities Team, click here.

Welcome to the website of the Metro Mayors Caucus. We hope the information you will find here is useful and informative.

The Metro Mayors Caucus is a cooperative alliance of the mayors of 37 cities and towns in the Denver metropolitan region. The Caucus is a unique collaboration of elected officials providing leadership and creative solutions on some of the most challenging issues in our region. The Caucus has emerged as a voice for collective action on issues that affect our entire metropolitan area and cannot be effectively addressed by any one jurisdiction acting alone.

The Caucus is unique among regional organizations because of our commitment to decision making by consensus. Consensus has been the foundation of our success for the past thirteen years. As difficult as it may be to achieve, we have been able to reach it on many challenging issues that have divided the region in other forums. We reach consensus by listening carefully to each other’s opinions and concerns, exploring possible options and searching for solutions that reflect the needs and values of each of our members. Caucus positions do not emerge fully formed, they evolve through the give and take that comes from full understanding of and dialogue about our differences. We begin these discussions knowing that we will have to work to narrow the field of common ground and to build solutions that all of us can live with, but which are not so diluted as to be meaningless.

This practice has enabled the Caucus to develop positions and implement initiatives that have led to positive change in the entire metro area. Among the issues the Caucus has tackled are growth management, multi-modal transportation, affordable housing, regional response to emergencies, and intergovernmental cooperation.

We hope you will take the time to review our site and find out more about the Caucus and the issues on which we focus.

Randy Pye
Chair, Metro Mayors Caucus
Mayor, City of Centennial