The Carlsbad City Council approved North County’s first Age-Friendly Action Plan Tuesday, a collaboration with AARP and Circulate San Diego. The plan will serve as roadmap for how Carlsbad can create policies and programs that make neighborhoods walkable, provide transportation options, offer basic services and opportunities to participate in community activities, and support affordable and adaptable housing for people with special needs. 

The Age-Friendly Carlsbad Action Plan outlines recommendations for city goals and policies spanning six categories, including:

• Outdoor space and buildings
• Social and civic participation
• Housing
• Health and wellness
• Mobility
• Community connections

The Age-Friendly Carlsbad project is part of the AARP’s Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities and supported by the San Diego Foundation’s Age-Friendly Communities Program. Carlsbad community members helped shape the plan through workshops, online surveys, a digital ideas wall and mapping tool.

Other public agencies in the region that have created similar plans include Chula Vista, La Mesa, National City and the County of San Diego. Now that the plan has been approved, city staff will bring forward individual programs over the next several years to implement the plan’s recommendations.

For more information about the Age-Friendly Carlsbad Action Plan, visit www.carlsbadca.gov/departments/parks-recreation/adults-50/age-friendly-carlsbad.