VIEWPOINT | In Sioux Falls, ‘wellness’ means parking lots — an open letter

Guest column by Jordan Deffenbaugh

Picture a child leaving home on foot: past the corner store where the owner knows her name, through the small park where neighbors gather, arriving at the library within ten minutes. This is the ordinary architecture of wellness, where daily encounters weave strangers into neighbors and movement creates belonging.

Now picture the same child, unable to reach any destination without a parent’s car. This is what we are building. And we are calling it wellness.

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