from:  http://www.mich.gov/documents/CommunityRFP2004-2005_110430_7.pdf

Policy and Environmental Changes (PEC) – Today’s environment often discourages healthy behaviors such as physical activity and healthy eating. Our communities accommodate the automobile and not walkers and bikers; and our communities make high-calorie, high-fat food readily available. PEC address barriers to these healthy behaviors in an effort to improve community conditions and make it easier for individuals to adopt healthy behaviors.

• Increase access to places that are safe and convenient for people to walk (walking trails, sidewalks, pedestrian crosswalks, policies that allow local school gyms to remain open after hours for walking, etc.).
• Increase access to fresh and affordable fruits and vegetables (community gardens, farmer’s markets, coupons for produce, etc.).
• Increase a community’s capacity to use walking and/or bicycling for transportation to work and other valued destinations (bike lanes, signage, bike racks)
• Encourage businesses to prohibit indoor smoking and offer incentives to employees to quit smoking.
• Encourage restaurants to provide nutrition information about all new items and to ban smoking or increase the percentage of non-smoking space.
• Increase physical activity and healthy eating options and eliminate tobacco use throughout entire school systems.
• Enact an ordinance or regulation to ban smoking in all public places.