Madison Urban Agriculture Ordinance Workgroup

Meeting Calendar (all meetings at Madison Area CLT, 305 S Paterson St)

• Oct 10th: 3- 4:30 PM
• Oct 22nd: 3:30 – 5 PM
• Nov 4th: 3:30 – 5 PM

Meeting Minutes

• October 10, 2008 meeting
• Sept 26, 2008 meeting

 

Urban Agriculture in Wisconsin

• Milwaukee
  • draft beekeeping ordinance
  • draft chicken ordinance

 

Urban Agriculture Ordinances (and activity) in Other States

• Boston
  • Open Space Management Mission
  • Chicago
    • NeighborSpace
• Cleveland Urban Gardening District
• Michigan
  • Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council
  • Article about urban ag in Grand Rapids
  • Bibliography about urban ag in Michigan
  • Research paper about urban ag in Detroit
• Multiple Cities
  • Nina Mukherji’s paper on urban ag in Portland, Chicago and Boston
• Providence
• Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute – Sustainable Community Development Code Initiative
• San Diego
  • Proposal
  • City Response

 

Other Background Information about Urban Ag in Madison

• Farm talk with the Mayors Innovation Project, Isthmus, Aug 2008
• Tenure status of Madison’s community gardens in 2008 (from CAC)
• 1997 Report on Community Gardens in Madison (The Madison Food System Project)
• Archive of Articles about Troy Gardens

 

City of Madison Zoning Code Rewrite Process

• Overall Project Schedule
• Members of advisory committee
• Community Meetings (May 19-21, 2008) — Summary of Results
• June 9, 2008 Plan Commission meeting minutes
• June 10, 2008 advisory committee meeting minutes
• July 8, 2008 advisory committee meeting minutes
• Aug 11, 2008 advisory committee meeting minutes
• Comments of RENEW WIsconsin (Sept 10, 2008)
• Draft of New Zoning Code Language for Residential Districts (Oct 14, 2008)
• Oct 21, 2008 advisory committee meeting agenda

Other Resources

• How other communities handle urban chickens
• Farming Inside Cities: Entrepreneurial-Urban Agriculture in the United States (by Jerry Kaufman and Martin Bailkey)
• About Green Roofs