AG-8: Enable urban agriculture
Identify and reduce obstacles for enabling urban agriculture, gardening, and other backyard agricultural practices.
Reduce zoning obstacles for urban agricultural practices, such as vertical and rooftop farming, growing and selling produce, and keeping chickens and/or beehives. Steps to reduce obstacles include:
- Amending zoning codes to allow for specific agricultural animals in residential districts
- Establishing a pilot permit program to incrementally increase the number of agricultural animals
- Explicitly excluding agricultural activities in nuisance laws and aesthetic regulations
Strengthen home-rule powers of municipalities and counties as it relates to agricultural zoning so decisions about community agriculture are localized.