Urban & Community Based Urban Ag Growing The Movement, Cultivating Policy Change

Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture

Heather Wooten, MCP hwooten@phlpnet.org

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An “umbrella” term to describe a range of food growing practices from

backyard gardens to urban farms.

What is urban agriculture?

Home Gardens Small-scale

Residences

Residents

Personal consumption or donation.

(What)

(Where)

(Who)

(Why)

Community Gardens Smaller-scale

Neighborhood serving

Individuals and families

Personal consumption or donation.

(What)

(Where)

(Who)

(Why)

Ploughshares Nursery Veggielution (San Jose)

Urban Farms Larger-scale/intensive

Neighborhood or city-wide

Organizations, private enterprise

Entrepreneurial, growing for sale

(What)

(Where)

(Who)

(Why)

What’s in the toolkit?

A framework for UA land use policies

Strategies for preserving land for UA

Overview of laws affecting UA

Model comprehensive plan policy

Model zoning code

Resources

Resources

Model Land Use Policies Model Lease ,

Rules & Agreements

Heather Wooten, MCP

hwooten@phlpnet.org

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