My idea for healthy lifestyles is this.... time is short for everyone. You either have time to exercise or run errands, not usually both. Help us double up. Make Fargo into a walking and public transport friendly community so we can be healthy and do our errands at the same time we are exercising (walking) with our families or to and from work. Otherwise we drive ourselves crazy trying to drive around doing errands, activities, dinner and exercise into the hours of 5-8pm and exercise is usually what gets left behind. the key is to stop building out and start building up and/or closer together, make the public transport stops more frequent and cover more ground, and stop putting up huge parking lots everywhere. No one wants to walk their errands if they get to walk along a paved parking lot because that is boring and not pleasing and a waste of space. We would rather walk our errands in a visually pleasing "village" of stores or houses or through parks and plazas. Not to mention, having stores closer together makes it quicker to walk our errands whereas now, yes, you can get their by foot but it will take you forever to get there.
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