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Planning to Eat? Innovative Local Government Plans and Policies to Build Healthy Food Systems in the United States
2011by: Kailee Van Brunt, AICP, Samina Raja, Sylvia KellyThis policy brief offers a wide range of innovative public policies that support and strengthen community food systems. -
Integrating Food Policy in Comprehensive Planning: Strategies and Resources for the City of Seattle
August 2012by: Puget Sound Regional CouncilThis case study and guide belongs to the Comprehensive Planning and Food Systems collections. -
From the Ground Up: Land Use Policies to Protect and Promote Farmers’ Markets
April 2013by: Heather Wooten, Amy AckermanThis guide shares best practices for regulating farmers’ markets at the state and local level. -
Community Food Assessment Guide
March 2008by: Sue Ross, Zena SimcesThis guide was written to help health authorities and community organizations undertake a community food assessment. -
Planning for the Food System
Models and Guidelines #28, 2012This resource offers guidance on establishing a process for planning for food along with tools and case studies. -
Community-Based Food Systems Assessment and Planning: Facilitator's Guidebook
2011This guidebook guides readers through a hands-on four-step community food systems assessment and planning process. -
Growing Local: A Community Guide to Planning for Agriculture and Food Systems
2017by: Julia Freedgood, Jessica FydenkevezThis guide is meant to help communities remove public policy barriers and advance policy solutions to strengthen community food systems. -
What's Cooking in Your Food System? A Guide to Community Food Assessment
2002by: Kami Pothukuchi, Hugh Joseph, Hannah BurtonThis publication offers guidance and resources for conducting a community food assessment. -
Good Laws, Good Food: Putting Local Food Policy to Work for Our Communities
2012by: Emily LeibThis toolkit for food policy councils and other users, including planners, addresses seven main food-related policy areas. -
Cutting Through the Red Tape: A Resource Guide for Local Food Policy Practitioners and Organizers
Policy Brief no. 19, 2011by: Beth Sanders, Annie ShattuckThis guide offers "toolkits" of strategies to support food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste recovery. -
Community Food System Assessment: A Companion Tool for the Guide
2009by: Christina MiewaldThis companion report to the Community Food Assessment Guide provides a wide range of food systems planning indicators. -
Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
E-FAN-02-013, 2002by: Barbara CohenThis report provides a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. -
Food Access Policy and Planning Guide
2011by: Eva Ringstrom, Brendan BornThis guide explains the roles of planners in improving food access and offers a "menu" of planning and policy options. -
Growing Home: A Guide to Reconnecting Agriculture, Food and Communities
2002by: Duncan Hilchey, Joanna GreenThis guide offers a wide range of programs and tools to support local farmers and food system development. -
Food System Planning
Municipal Implementation Tool #18, 2010This guide provides local governments with tools and resources to conduct local food systems planning. -
Guide to Urban Farming in New York State
2016by: Hannah Koski, Elizabeth Gabriel, Molly RiordanThis guide provides information to help understand and address the challenges associated with urban food systems and resources to support food production in urban and peri-urban areas. -
Urban Farm Business Plan: Handbook
September 2011This guide provides information for developing business plans intended to support the start-up and operations of urban farms. -
Urban Farming: An Introduction to Urban Farming, from Types and Benefits to Strategies and Regulations
2017This report provides an overview of the characteristics of urban agriculture, including benefits and challenges and production, processing, and distribution considerations. -
Facilitating Innovative Agricultural Enterprises: Considerations and Example Language for Vermont Municipalities
2012This guide and model was produced to help support and foster agricultural expansion through “agripreneurism,” or the diversification of on-farm businesses. -
Michigan Agricultural Tourism Local Zoning Guidebook and Model Zoning Ordinance Provisions
2012This guide offers model zoning ordinance provisions to help local governments address agricultural tourism. -
Lancaster County, PA, Agritourism Guidelines for the Promotion and Regulation of Farm-Based Tourism Enterprises
2009This guide offers model zoning language for agritourism uses. -
Portland, OR, Vending Carts on Private Property
2017This guide contains information to aid mobile vending operators in understanding the Building and Zoning code standards that are relevant to different types of vending carts. -
Municipal Zoning for Local Foods in Iowa: A Guidebook for Reducing Local Regulatory Barriers to Local Foods
2012by: Gary Taylor, AICP, Andrea VaageThis guide provides information and sample zoning code language to help reduce barriers to and encourage urban agricultural activities in Iowa. -
Community Gardening: Policy Reference Guide
October 2017This guide provides an overview of legal and policy considerations for local governments and community members when implementing a community garden or related policy to improve food access and the overall health of the community. -
Vancouver, BC, Urban Agriculture Design Guidelines for the Private Realm
January 2009This guide provides information to support the design of urban agriculture installations within the city of Vancouver, BC. -
Food Producing Animals (FPA) Suggested Care Practices and Local Resources: Chickens, Ducks, and Goats
n.d.This local guide from Denver, CO, describes important considerations for residents before they decide to get backyard chickens, ducks, or goats. -
Know Before You Grow: Understanding Site Risks for Garden and Growing Activities
EPA-560-F-21-201, October 2021This fact sheet provides information on how to assess soils for urban gardening to determine whether the lot is a brownfield and the level of soil contamination. -
Brownfields and Urban Agriculture: Interim Guidelines for Safe Gardening Practices
2011This guide provides information and recommendations to help with developing safe urban agriculture projects on former brownfield sites. -
San Mateo County, CA, Urban Agriculture Guide
May 2020This guide provides information to help support urban agriculture in San Mateo County, CA. -
Farmland Access in Urban Settings
2018by: Johanna Rosen, Kathryn Ruhf, Bob WagnerThis briefing paper addresses land access and tenure challenges for urban farming. -
San Mateo County, CA, Agritourism Guidelines
2012These guidelines were developed to guide the review and establishment of commercial activities on agricultural land. -
Planning for Agritourism: A Guide for Local Governments and Indiana Farmers
2012This guide reinforces the importance of planning for agritourism activities as a way to help support existing farming enterprises, diversify local economies, and maintain rural character. -
Food Truck Freedom: How to Build Better Food-Truck Laws in Your City
2012by: Robert Frommer, Bert GallThis guide from the Institute for Justice comes out of the National Street Vending initiative and provides recommendations and case studies that municipalities can refer to when developing their own food truck policies. -
Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, Mobile Food Unit Operation Guide
2016This guide covers mobile food unit definitions, classifications, and illustrative examples, food sanitation and personal hygiene rules, commissary requirements, water supply and sewage, administrative requirements, and cleaning and sanitation. -
Denver, CO, Food Truck Guide
2017This guide provides an example of a concise document providing guidance for mobile food vendors on operating within the local legal framework as it relates to public and private property. -
Berkeley County, WV, A Quick Guide to Conservation Easements
2021This guide provides an overview of conservation easements as tools to help protect farmland. -
Pennsylvania Agricultural Resources Evaluation Handbook
March 2016This guide presents actions that can help transportation planners and other decision-makers identify resources throughout the several phases of transportation projects to avoid or minimize the impacts on agricultural resources. -
Wisconsin Guide for Developing County Farmland Preservation Plans
February 2011This guide contains information to help counties develop farmland protection plans that address the continued loss of important agricultural land to urban development pressures. -
Lancaster County, PA, Agricultural Zoning District Guidelines for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
October 2010This guide, created as part of Lancaster County’s comprehensive planning process, provides information on agricultural zoning districts as mechanisms to help protect agricultural resources and industry. -
Orland, CA, Administrative Guidelines for Implementation of General Plan Agricultural Buffering Policies
September 2005This guide addresses farmland protection by establishing agricultural buffering guidelines for new urban development in the city. -
Planning for Agriculture: A Guide for Connecticut Municipalities
October 2020by: Chelsea Gazillo, John Guszkowski, AICP, Kip KolesinskasThis guide from American Farmland Trust and Connecticut Conference of Municipalities offers information and tools to help local leaders preserve and protect local agriculture. -
Planning for Agriculture in Wisconsin: A Guide for Communities
November 2002by: Douglas Jackson-Smith, Paul Benjamin, Richard CastlenuovoThis guide from University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection addresses how to plan for agriculture. -
British Columbia Guide to Edge Planning: Promoting Compatibility Along Agricultural–Urban Edges
2015This guide offers guidelines for maximizing compatibility between uses in Edge Planning Areas or agricultural and urban lands near Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) boundaries. -
Preserving Rural Character Through Agriculture: A Resource Kit for Planners
December 2000by: Nada HaddadThis guide focuses on the preservation of rural character through a thriving agricultural sector. -
Open Space & Resource Protection Regulations
2007This guide provides information to help implement regulations to help protect open space in Vermont. -
Farmland Solar Policy Design Toolkit
May 2020by: Genevieve ByrneThis guide is designed to help state and local officials understand how different state and local policy options affect opportunities to site solar projects on farmland. -
Agricultural Protection Zoning
Updated November 2013by: Spotts Stevens & McCoy Inc, John Theilacker, Andrew LozaThis guide from the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association summarizes agricultural protection zoning options. -
Building Sustainable And Resilient City Region Food Systems Assessment And Planning Handbook
2023This guide focuses on the need for resilient and sustainable city/regional food systems. -
City Practitioners Handbook: Circular Food Systems
September 2021The guide published by ICLEI and Circulars is for local and regional planners and governments looking to connect their local food systems. -
The Planner's Guide To The Urban Food System
January 2008by: Bowen Patterson, Arly CassidyThis guide discusses how and why food systems interact and are affected by economic, environmental, and social issues.
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