Food Systems | Urban Agriculture

This article examines the impact of municipal zoning regulations on urban agriculture and presents recommendations of how zoning can help municipalities encourage urban agriculture. It gives an overview of urban agriculture, presents its potential benefits and challenges, and examines how outdated zoning codes are a potential barrier to urban farming. The article also explores how municipalities have already started to address urban agriculture through their zoning codes and proposes a comprehensive method for revising municipal zoning codes to maximize the benefits of urban agriculture while minimizing potential harms.