10. FRAMEWORK A NEW GENERATION IS RECLAIMING THE TRADITION OF URBAN FARMING & REDEFINING OUR URBAN FUTURE
11. FRAMEWORK INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY CONNECT URBAN AND RURAL AGRICULTURE Source: Except, Integrated Sustainable Design
12. DEFINITION OF COMMERCIAL URBAN AGRICULTURE Commercial urban agriculture is the production of plants, animals, and fungi for processing, sale and distribution by a revenue-driven organization in an urban environment. FRAMEWORK DEFINITIONS
13. FRAMEWORK BENEFITS OF URBAN AG Source: GOOD.com & One/Living Proof INVESTING IN URBAN AGRICULTURE = INVESTING IN CITIES
14. FRAMEWORK Waste Recycling Pollution Inputs Urban Civilization Ecosystem health Resource base Balance new inputs with natural regeneration and reduce urban demands on the resource base A PERFORMANCE BASED APPROACH TO DEFINING SUSTAINABLE CITIES
15. FRAMEWORK URBAN & INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY CITES AS DYNAMIC FLOWS OF PEOPLE, GOODS, MATERIALS & SERVICES Louis Kahn ’s Traffic Studies for Philadelphia
16. FRAMEWORK URBAN & INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY CITES AS DYNAMIC FLOWS OF PEOPLE, GOODS, MATERIALS & SERVICES Source: Swiss Biomas Flows
17. FRAMEWORK DESIGNING URBAN AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS GROWING SYSTEMS – A LOT MORE THAN JUST PLANTS
18. PART 3: SPECTRUM OF APPROACHES PART 3: THE SPECTRUM OF COMMERCIAL URBAN AGRICULTURE
43. Planning and Perception redevelopment jobs opportunity growth construction infrastructure hip high-rise entertainment retail gentrification plantations pollution agriculture justice food health community dirty Shaping a community vision about opportunity Francesville, Philadelphia
(it ’s in vogue – find images of cover stories/news reports, etc. and have them pop up one after another) (Challenge the urban rural divide in food)
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Zoning supports public and private goods and minimizes public and private harms Deeply ingrained binary of urban vs. rural. Appropriate uses, activities, History of leaving the country for the city. Culture, class and history…
In this presentation we are going to talk a lot about young entrepreneurs. This choice is intentional. We find the energy and vision of young entrepreneurs inspiring and telling of the direction we are headed.
Cities are hubs of innovation—new technologies developed for urban farms can also revolutionize rural agriculture Urban agriculture is a great source of innovations in business models and growing system technology. (Jacobs, Economy of Cities) Many technologies are first developed it cities and then disseminated to the hinterlands. High density city agricultural systems may be transferred to agricultural operations in suburban and exurban areas, including industrial sites and vacant shopping centers. Though these are quite different sites, the land use regulation questions will largely be the same: how to mix homes with agriculture.
Urban agriculture is a great source of innovations in business models and growing system technology. (Jacobs, Economy of Cities) Many technologies are first developed it cities and then disseminated to the hinterlands. High density city agricultural systems may be transferred to agricultural operations in suburban and exurban areas, including industrial sites and vacant shopping centers. Though these are quite different sites, the land use regulation questions will largely be the same: how to mix homes with agriculture. Notes here on the benefit of urban ag. Briefly…. These are not just benefits for agriculture in some far away place. URBAN AG & FOOD JUSTICE Reconnect urban areas with food and agriculture Increase material sustainability Improve community health Address food access Economic development and environmental justice But—don ’t expect urban farms to feed entire cities within their city limits anytime soon
The sustainability, the balance between resource use, resource base, and environmental impacts, of cities is essential for broader civilizational sustainability and resilience.
Flows of good, services and materials are not new to planning. We understand the complexity of cities. Contemporary planning practitioners have to grapple on a daily basis with which parts of the system to control. Often to deal with the overwhelming complexity, we cope by limiting the scope of our examination. Urban Ag as an innovative and opportunistic practice. Segway to industrial symbiosis and sustainable cities.
SWISS biomass flows Sandkey diagram tracking processes and associated flows of goods and materials
Don ’t go into detail, but introduce the idea of nested systems and closed loops. These systems also require a considerable amount of back of house, processing space. Begin to make this seem spatial and related to the urban landscape.
Selling on site
Selling on site
Yes, that ’s mayor Manino (Boston)
60,000 lbs were: - Donated - Sold at farmer ’s markets - 592 CSA households Made possible by a strong partnership with the City of Boston
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Prohibition on sales/processing/distribution Limited land in allowed zones (industrial, open space) Lack of appropriate standards for parking, fences, signs, composting, animals, greenhouses and hoophouses, roof-top installations Anti-blight or landscaping standards
Zoning prohibits growing crops or commercial sales Difficulty getting permits for novel systems or structures Health regulations create expensive barriers to processing and sales State and federal regulations to protect food system and environment create onerous burdens
Prohibition on sales/processing/distribution Limited land in allowed zones (industrial, open space) Lack of appropriate standards for parking, fences, signs, composting, animals, greenhouses and hoophouses, roof-top installations Anti-blight or landscaping standards
Prohibition on sales/processing/distribution Limited land in allowed zones (industrial, open space) Lack of appropriate standards for parking, fences, signs, composting, animals, greenhouses and hoophouses, roof-top installations Anti-blight or landscaping standards
May not have appropriate standards for farm structures or hydroponic growing systems (Building, plumbing, electrical code) Code set at the state level, but locally enforced Varying degrees of interpretive discretion
Requires certain standards of refrigeration, preparation/processing area hygiene for sales May require commercial kitchen license for value added or processed food Code set at the state level, but locally enforced Varying degrees of interpretive discretion Culture is typically risk adverse and compliance oriented
Department of Agriculture Department of Health Department of Labor Department of Wildlife (Fish and Game) Department of Environmental Protection
Requires certain standards of refrigeration, preparation/processing area hygiene for sales May require commercial kitchen license for value added or processed food Code set at the state level, but locally enforced Varying degrees of interpretive discretion Culture is typically risk adverse and compliance oriented
Culture and perception matter: “ Agriculture isn’t something we do here” “ Plantations” are a step backward for many urban minorities “ The soil is polluted” – environmental justice Healthy food, food deserts, and farming Not zoned for agriculture
Diverse range of urban agriculture typologies: private garden, community garden, institutional garden, demonstration garden, edible landscape, guerrilla garden, hobby beekeeping, hobby chicken keeping, market farm, urban farm, peri-urban farm, beekeeping, hybrid urban agriculture
Crops (vegetables, fungi, flowers, livestock, fish, bees, etc…) Scale (min size, max size) Activities (growing, processing, selling, private consumption, charity, distribution) Organization (non profit organization vs. private company) “ Urban Agriculture: the raising, keeping, or harvesting of plants, animals, and fungi.” “ Urban Agriculture: the production of food or horticultural crops to be harvested, sold, or donated.” “ Neighborhood Agriculture: the raising, keeping or harvesting of plants, animals, or fungi on lots of less than one acre in size without the use of mechanized farm equipment and operated either for personal use or by a nonprofit institution.” “ Large-Scale (Commercial) Agriculture: the raising, keeping or harvesting of plants, animals, or fungi on lots of land one acre of larger, and/or using mechanized farm equipment, and/or operated by a private for-profit entity.”
Allow in all districts, but they will be different in each type of district – make it an allowed use If you have specific goals make sure you ’re using the right districts Consider creation of urban farming district to protect farming uses from conversion to “higher and better” uses (Cleveland) NIMBY - Boston
Livestock - Small animals vs. Large animals Number allowed, setbacks, pen/structure size, roosters, etc. - Bees Flyways - Fish Sales - Standards for sales in residential areas, special Farm machinery - Equipment
Cleveland stuff on signs and fences SF fences
Political leadership Economic development support Potential to use public land Food policy councils Advocates and tapping into the larger food community Insert scale diagram here? (show bottom of the diagram – here are your advocates, community support, etc.)
APA PAS Report Lots of case studies out there: San Francisco, Cleveland, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston Handout