zoning and planning

Urban Ag Needs Your Support by March 22

March 20, 2012
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
market gardening, Minneapolis City Council, Minneapolis Urban Agriculture Policy Plan, urban agriculture zoning text amendments, urban farming, zoning and planning

Additional changes have been proposed to the current Minneapolis Urban Agriculture Zoning Text Amendments that won’t work for urban farmers. LSP opposes incorporating these changes into the current language, as they create…
Local Control & the Capitol’s Dangerous Double Standard

February 28, 2012
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
development, factory farms, interim ordinance, land use moratorium, local control, local government, sand frac mines, township rights, Wal-Mart, zoning and planning

Nice irony: when a key committee passed House File 389 last Wednesday, it was by a 9 to 5 vote, which is less than the two-thirds majority the bill imposes on local…