{"id":1205,"date":"2006-06-22T08:11:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/why_there_oughta_be_a_zoning_regulation.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:01:28","slug":"why_there_ought_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/why_there_ought_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Why There Oughta Be A Zoning Regulation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/make_that_fast_food_to_go__council_big_regionalnews_carl_campanile____and_mathew_charles.htm\">they&#8217;ll be forced to purchase more nutritious alternatives at the &#8220;mom-and-pop&#8221; health food bodega down the block<\/a>. Yes, that should fix everything:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> A powerful city council member yesterday proposed overhauling the city&#8217;s zoning rules to limit the number of fast-food restaurants in neighborhoods where obesity is epidemic among youths.<\/p>\n<p>The fat-busting plan also would bar McDonald&#8217;s, Burger King, Dunkin&#8217; Donuts and the like from locating near schools, said council Health Committee Chairman Joel Rivera (D-Bronx).<\/p>\n<p>Rivera dropped the frying-plan bombshell during a council hearing on obesity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be as strong with obesity as with the cigarette campaign. More people die from obesity-related issues than smoking cigarettes,&#8221; said Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at the zoning resolution to limit the number of fast-food restaurants,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera asked city Assistant Health Commissioner Lynn Silver, testifying before his committee, what she thought of his idea.<\/p>\n<p>She said restrictive zoning seemed to be a &#8220;perfect example&#8221; of how government could help curb the fat epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera said obesity is a supersized problem in a city where 21 percent of kindergarten students are already fat and 53 percent of adults are overweight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the best ways to tackle the obesity issue,&#8221; Rivera told The Post. &#8220;In low-income areas, you find more fast-food restaurants. In more affluent areas, you find more mom-and-pop restaurants.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This way they&#8217;ll be forced to purchase more nutritious alternatives at the &#8220;mom-and-pop&#8221; health food bodega down the block. Yes, that should fix everything: A powerful city council member yesterday proposed overhauling the city&#8217;s zoning rules to limit the number of fast-food restaurants in neighborhoods where obesity is epidemic among youths. The fat-busting plan also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}