Dan Burden Walkability Audits and Presentations

Dan Burden and dozens of residents standing on the sidewalk in Arcata, discussing the intersection

Dan Burden measuring sidewalk on Eureka waterfront as dozens watch.

Dan Burden stands at pedestrian crossing with several attendees, in front of Blue Lake downtown mural.

Walkability and Complete Streets innovator and expert Dan Burden visited our neighborhoods to perform walk audits in Arcata, Eureka, Manila, and McKinleyville. (July 2023)

Local Coverage

Lost Coast Outpost Article "How Do We Make Our Communities More Walkable? Dan Burden Knows, and He’s Coming to Humboldt to Help Us Out"

Times Standard Article "Humboldt County Walkability Audit Presentation Well-attended"

"The Econews Report: What’s a Walkable Community?" (30-min podcast; aired July 29, 2023) (transcript available here (Lost Coast Outpost))

CIVICWELL Article "Humboldt County Turns the Wheels on Bike- and Pedestrian- Friendly Design"

Walk Audits & Presentations

Schedule of local events (325 KB)

City of Arcata video - Arcata Walk Audit (50 minutes) - July 22, 2023

Arcata Photos (29 MB)

City of Eureka video- Old Town Eureka Walk Audit (66 minutes) - July 23, 2023

Technical Meeting-Local Agencies Presentation (City of Arcata video) (79 minutes) - July 24, 2023

Humboldt - Technical Meeting slide deck (151 MB)

IT'S HERE! Video of Humboldt presentation at the Wharfinger Building (1hr43m) - July 24, 2023 (Access Humboldt archive)

Humboldt presentation - slidedeck (146 MB)

Blue Lake - Walk audit presentation video (72 minutes) - July 25, 2023

Blue Lake - slide deck (100 MB)

McKinleyville (McK Municipal Advisory Committee special meeting) - slidedeck (110 MB) - July 25, 2023

Articles by Dan Burden

"Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice" (126 KB)

"Why Walkability Matters" (157 KB)