Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
2011
Level
City or Town
State(s)
All States
Policy Areas
Children & Families, Community Development, Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Food, Health, Public Spaces
This policy outlines how zoning laws can be used to facilitate urban agriculture in order to promote public health, environmental sustainability, and economic prosperity. It explains where urban farming should be located, how it can be legally approved, and the standards that should be applied. It also includes a model zoning ordinance for promoting urban agriculture and descriptions of relevant policy language.
Tags
- Agriculture
- Children
- Co-Op
- Cooperatives
- Diversity
- EBT
- Electronic Benefits Transfer
- Equity
- Ethnicity
- Farm to Table
- Farmers' Market
- Farmer'S Market
- Food Stamps
- Garden
- Health Equity
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Organic
- Race
- SNAP
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- Sustainability
- WMBE
- Women and Minority Owned Business Enterprises