The document discusses Sunday Streets, an event that closes streets to vehicles and opens them for people to walk, bike, and participate in activities. It aims to promote health, community connections, and economic opportunities. Key goals include reducing obesity, supporting local businesses, improving transportation options, decreasing pollution, and engaging youth. Reasons given for Sunday Streets include employing and mentoring local youth, promoting neighborhoods and businesses, reducing vehicle usage, improving air quality and noise levels, and allowing free outdoor activities to reconnect with others. The event is said to make Baltimore a unique destination and tie the city together through linked cultural, retail, and community events.

1. Parkways for People Sunday Streets

2. Sunday Streets Happier, healthier people enjoying the outdoors, meeting new friends, no matter their race or class

3. How it works: Every Sunday Morning Connects communities, businesses, cultural opportunities Intersections work normally Access to homes, parking and businesses remain Volunteers and crossing guards monitor intersections

4. Sunday Streets Impact: Better Health Connecting Communities Equitably Sunday Streets Cleaner Greener Safer New Economic Activity

5. “ Creating opportunities for Happiness must be a priority for a high quality of life…” Former Bogota Mayor Enrique Penalosa

6. Sunday Streets= FUN ! Walking, Running, Skating, Biking, Aerobics, Shopping ….Quality time with each other….

7. Opportunities to reach out, inform and interact with our citizens….

8. Thousands of People …….

9. Goals Sunday Streets will impact: Obesity Micro enterprise and retail sales Transportation choices Air and noise pollution Youth engagement Social and cultural connectedness

10. Reasons why Sunday Streets must happen: To employ local youth as safety riders, monitors leaders and mentors, giving them both responsibility, pride and a paycheck To create a quietly powerful way to market neighborhoods, parks, cultural centers and businesses To create demand for alternatives to motor vehicles; saving gas, money and lives

11. All Kids Need Opportunities to Exercise

12. Reasons why Sunday Streets must happen: Cleaner air, peace and quiet for a day in areas with high noise and air pollution To allow for a free, easy way to get outside and reconnect with our friends, families and neighbors To help everyone, regardless of their income, race or class find a new way to become more active, healthy, and yes, even happier.

13. Reasons why Sunday Streets must happen: Makes Baltimore a truly unique destination Ties cultural events, organizations, retail, conventions, hotels, and entire neighborhoods together Will dwarf any other city event Being first = National attention

14. Sunday Streets snapshots ……..

15. Enrique Penalosa – Former Mayor of Bogota: "We have to build a city for children and thus for people. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness ."

16. Moving forward – steps: BPAG: Role: Actions: