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+ INTRODUCT ION
+ SCREENING
+ SCOPING
+ A SSESSMENT
+ RECOMMENDAT IONS
+ INTRODUCTION
Summary
Ithacas Saint Catherine of Siena Church
community plans tto demolish and rebuild
their Parish Center.
Existing Site
Limitations
- Time constraints
Main Church
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A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a way of measuring potential health determinants through a combination
of procedures and methods. HIAs assess a policy change, construction, or any other project methods, and
tools that could affect a group, or subgroup of people both positively and negatively (Health Impact Assessment).
1. Timeline
2. Committed Stakeholders
Christine Balestra, Town of Ithaca Planner
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3. Receptive Audience
- The parish community is a vibrant Catholic
community where all are welcome, challenged,
and supported in their lifes journey.
- Diverse set of groups and organizations
for the parishioners to partake
- Book club
- Mens group
- Music ministry
4. New Perspective
- Current project focus is to update facilities
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5. Health Risks and Benefits
Factor
+ SCOPING
Framework
Assessment
Methods
- Literature Reviews
- Parishioner Interview
+ ASSESSMENT
Health Outcome 1: Increase in community and educational spaces, and the
addition of a walkways connection will result in an increase in social capital.
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Inclusiveness
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Health Outcome 2: The increase in participation in church activities is associated
to higher and more frequent noise disturbances that would create an annoyance
and acute stress for church neighbors.
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There is a relationship between noise level and annoyance ratings (Sanders and McCormick, 1993)
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+ RECOMMENDATIONS
RECOMMENDATION 1: Reach out to the greater Ithaca area to promote
multiple uses of the new Parish Center to increase social capital opportunities.
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Open the center to outside organizations, such as substance abuse support groups
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RECOMMENDATION 2: Use landscaping design as a method to mitigate noise annoyances
by placing absorbing materials and plants around the parking space, parish and church.
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Materials and plants, such as shrubby trees, can absorb sound and decrease
the intensity of sound that reaches neighbors
THANK YOU!
Acknowledgments
Professor Wells, Kristin Aldred Cheek, Marlana Zink
Christine Balestra, Joe Marcoux, Professor Casasola