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September 2003, Vol 93, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1404-1408
© 2003 American Public Health Association

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND LAW

Land Use Planning and the Control of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Fast Food Restaurants

Marice Ashe, JD, MPH, David Jernigan, PhD, Randolph Kline, JD and Rhonda Galaz, JD

Marice Ashe, Randolph Kline, and Rhonda Galaz are with the Technical Assistance Legal Center, Public Health Institute, Oakland, Calif. David Jernigan is with the Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Marice Ashe, JD, MPH, Technical Assistance Legal Center, Public Health Institute, 505 14th St, Suite 810, Oakland, CA 94612 (e-mail: mashe{at}phi.org).

We desired to understand how legal tools protect public health by regulating the location and density of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and fast food retail outlets. We reviewed the literature to determine how land use regulations can function as control tools for public health advocates.

We found that land use regulations are a public health advocacy tool that has been successfully used to lessen the negative effects of alcohol retail outlets in neighborhoods. More research is needed to determine whether such regulations are successful in reducing the negative effects of other retail outlets on community health.




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