Get Active Orlando: Community Partnership

Get Active Orlando represents a model for municipal governments that are interested in improving a downtown and surrounding neighborhoods for active living. For example, the lead partner, the City of Orlando Planning Department, now requires design elements that support active living when approving new commercial development in the downtown business district. The partnership complements these types of improvements with promotional efforts that encourage physical activity. Activate Orlando!’s vision is to establish and brand downtown Orlando and its adjacent neighborhoods as an “Active Living District,” with residents, employees, and others in the downtown area routinely making the active choices in an environment that encourages safe physical activity. To this end, Activate more...

Get Active Orlando Story

Tim Baker has been an architect in Central Florida for 19 years. With influence from the City of Orlando Planning Department, Baker is now a believer in active living by design and thinks about the built environment and how it affects physical activity in his daily efforts. As a result of the City’s vision of creating an “Active Living District,” he and other designers and developers have more...

Opportunities in Get Active Orlando

The Orlando region is well known as a vacation destination, but the downtown Community Redevelopment Area (CRA), which serves as the Activate Orlando! project area, is also home to diverse urban neighborhoods and a thriving business district. The partnership's project area covers 1,620 acres, including the commercial downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods of Parramore, Lake Eola, and Uptown. more...

Recent Accomplishments

  • Created Pedestrian and Bicycle Levels of Service (PLOS/BLOS) survey instruments to assess ped/bike friendliness of street environments. The surveys produced a large-scale street assessment, evaluating every street in downtown Orlando, as a community mobilization event with approximately 100 citizens, students, and professionals.
  • Created data layers and maps from the PLOS/BLOS street assessment to provide capital improvements priorities for transportation master plan for downtown.
  • Implementing a community gardening program.
  • Working with the Orlando Police Department to donate all con?scated bicycles to the partnership for a bicycle recycling program.
  • Participated in a visioning process to develop recommendations for a downtown transportation master plan.
  • Developing a social marketing campaign to promote active living.
  • Funded and implemented a senior walking program at a local senior facility.

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