| Jurisdiction Name: | Western North Carolina |
| State/Province: | NC |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Regional Agency |
| Population: | 1,473,241 |
| Population Range: | 1 million or more |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | plan |
| Year: | 2013 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production, community food security |
| Keywords: | agricultural land preservation, environmental projects, food infrastructure, food production, healthy food access, local food access, regional agriculture, regional farms, rural, rural agriculture, sustainable agriculture, sustainable food, value-added |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Land of Sky Regional Council |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | LandDesign; University of North Carolina, Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | $1.6 million (2010-11) |
| Funding Sources: | Department of Housing and Urban Development through the Partnership for Sustainable Communities - The Sustainable Communitites Planning Grant Program |
| Policy Outcome(s): | The GroWNC Regional Plan spans five counties within the western portion of North Carolina. Although the plan covers various sectors, it incorporates many initiatives around food, farming, and agriculture due to their importance in the regional economy. For example, one of the goals of the resource conservation section is the preservation of agriculture and forestry lands. Further, the goal is supported by strategies such as permitting, allocating funding for farmland protection through local sales tax, establishing utility service agreements between jurisdictions and agricultural areas for water and sewer infrastructure, and identifying and encouraging opportunities for non-timber income such as forest foods. Another goal in the resource conversation section is to support the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, a project that helps local farmers succeed by linking farmers to markets and other supports and building healthy communities through connections to food. This goal requires developing a regional agriculture infrastructure assessment, supporting research that assists the regions food production, value-added products, marketing, and branding, preserving productive farmland and soils, and establishing a goal for a percentage of food sources locally for school lunches. Lastly, the ‘Healthy Communities’ section of the plan focuses on health and diets, and emphasizes the goal of improving healthy and local food access in all communities of the region. To do so, the plan reports that there must be a: revision of local ordinances to allow for farmers’ markets, produce stands and other outlets for fresh local foods, promotion of healthy local food in lower-income and rural areas, promotion/expansion of the use of EBT to purchase food at Farmers’ Markets, and replication and expansion of the program Green Opportunities around culinary skills, gardening/food production and business opportunities to train youth. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
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Take Care New York 2020, New York, New York
| Jurisdiction Name: | New York |
| State/Province: | NY |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 8,560,072 |
| Population Range: | 1 million or more |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | plan |
| Year: | 2015 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food security |
| Keywords: | SNAP, city, community, community health, education, food, food assistance, health, healthy food, healthy food access, public |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | New York City Council |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
| Support Entity(s): | NYC Department of Education; NYC Department of Environmental Protection; NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice |
| Funding Amount: | n/a |
| Funding Sources: | n/a |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Take Care New York 2020 serves as a blueprint that guides New York City’s Health Department in making strides to improve the health of all New Yorkers and to narrow the gap in health equity between residents with more favorable health outcomes and those with adverse health outcomes. Launched in 2015, this plan sets goals to: (1) Promote Healthy Childhoods; (2) Create Healthier Neighborhoods; (3) Support Healthy Living; and (4) Increase Access to Quality Care, with aims to achieve all goals by year 2020. Under the Take Care New York’s 2020 Community Health Improvement Plan, the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides detailed recommendations and action items to improve health-related outcomes, and also includes involved partners and how such outcomes will reduce health disparities. For example, the plan recommends public health professionals work with physicians and pharmacists in ‘Health Action Center’ areas (e.g., neighborhoods with low health outcomes) to conduct community health assessments and outreach, as well as increasing outreach at food markets to increase residential enrollment in food assistance programs. The latter is planned to be further supplemented by ‘Health Bucks,’ a program that provides benefits beyond SNAP for low-income residents. TCNY’s first annual update also reports that Shop Healthy NYC and the Urban Health Plan network have partnered with local bodegas and supermarkets to increase access to healthier food options and to educate their residents about healthy eating. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 |
Homegrown Baltimore Employee Wellness CSA Farmshare, Side Letter Agreement
| Jurisdiction Name: | Baltimore City |
| State/Province: | MD |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 620,961 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | side letter agreement |
| Year: | 2014 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food security |
| Keywords: | CSA, city employees, community supported agriculture, consumption, farm share, food consumption, healthy food, homegrown baltimore, program, union employees, wellness benefit, wellness program, wellness program benefit |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Baltimore City Board of Estimates |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Baltimore Office of the Labor Commissioner, Managerial and Professional Society of Baltimore Inc. |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | |
| Funding Sources: | |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Board of Estimates approved a request by Managerial and Professional Society of Baltimore, Inc. (MAPS) union, a labor union representing Baltimore City employees, to allow for union members to participate in a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm share as part of their wellness benefit; members of the union can be reimbursed up to $250 of the cost to participate in a CSA; side letter agreement with MAPS modifies the language in Article 7, Health and Welfare Benefits, Section G to allow the physical fitness/wellness reimbursement to include community supported agriculture programs, as approved by the Employee Benefits Division of the Department of Human Resources |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 – Link 3 |
Orange County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan
| Jurisdiction Name: | Orange County |
| State/Province: | NY |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | County |
| Population: | 372,813 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | plan |
| Year: | 1996 |
| GFC Topic: | community food production |
| Keywords: | agribusiness, agribusiness infrastructure, agriculture, economic development, farm, farmland, farmland protection, food infrastructure, food production, infrastructure, land use, local, local farm products, local food, plan, production, protection, rural, rural agriculture, value-added, value-added production |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Orange County Executive |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Orange County Department of Planning, Orange County Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | not applicable |
| Funding Sources: | not applicable |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Resulted in recommendations to protect agricultural industry and farmland; led to development of the Orange County Agricultural Economic Development Strategy (2004) (note: plan is being updated in 2014) |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Fork Food Lab Fiscal Sponsorship, Portland, Maine
| Jurisdiction Name: | Portland |
| State/Province: | ME |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 66,649 |
| Population Range: | 50,000 to 249,999 |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | investment |
| Year: | 2016 |
| GFC Topic: | community food production |
| Keywords: | commercial kitchen, employment, food business, food processing, incubator kitchen, kitchen, local food, production kitchen |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Creative Portland Corporation |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Fork Food Lab |
| Support Entity(s): | Greater Portland Council of Governments |
| Funding Amount: | Not available |
| Funding Sources: | USDA Local Food Promotion Grant |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Establishes fiscal sponsorship of Food Fork Lab, a for-profit commercial incubator kitchen space, tasting room and food business incubator facility in the Bayside Neighborhood of Portland; creates an annual-renewing sponsorship as part of a larger partnership with the City of Portland to sponsor programs supporting local arts and culture within Portland. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 – Link 3 |
Raising Fowl & Small Animals Permit, Ordinance No. 2009-Or-189
| Jurisdiction Name: | Minneapolis |
| State/Province: | MN |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 392,880 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | ordinance |
| Year: | 2009 |
| GFC Topic: | community food production |
| Keywords: | agriculture, animal permit, animals, chickens, food production, fowl, keeping of animals, pigeons, production, small animals, urban, urban agriculture |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Minneapolis City Council |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Minneapolis Animal Care & Control |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | n/a |
| Funding Sources: | n/a |
| Policy Outcome(s): | amended Title 4, Chapter 70 of the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances relating to the keeping of fowl, pigeons and other small animals, to legalize the keeping of small animals and fowl with a permit |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 – Link 3 |
Chittenden County Environment, Community, Opportunity, Sustainability (ECOS) Sustainability Plan
| Jurisdiction Name: | Chittenden County |
| State/Province: | VT |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | County |
| Population: | 160,531 |
| Population Range: | 50,000 to 249,999 |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | plan |
| Year: | 2013 |
| GFC Topic: | community food production |
| Keywords: | food access, food retail, food system |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | $1,000,000 |
| Funding Sources: | United State Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| Policy Outcome(s): | The Plan states the need to support implementation of the Vermont Farm to Plate Strategic Plan and the Vermont Working Landscape Partnership Action Plan, to protect existing farmland and support new operations including urban and suburban agriculture and homesteads. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) Program, New York, New York
| Jurisdiction Name: | New York |
| State/Province: | NY |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 8,175,133 |
| Population Range: | 1 million or more |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | program |
| Year: | 2009 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food security |
| Keywords: | food access, food affordability, food retail, grocery store, healthy food access, healthy food retail, incentive program, land use, neighborhood, residential zone, tax exemption, underserved, urban, zoning |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | New York City Council |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | New York City Industrial Development Agency; New York City Department of City Planning |
| Support Entity(s): | Department of Mental Health and Hygiene; Mayor's Office of Food Policy; New York City Economic Development Corporation |
| Funding Amount: | Unknown |
| Funding Sources: | New York State Department of Health’s Healthy Eating and Active Living by Design (HEALD) with support from NYCEDC, DCP, DOHMH, and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services. |
| Policy Outcome(s): | This program was designed to establish and maintain grocery stores in underserved areas of New York City in order to decrease disparities in accessing healthy, fresh, and affordable food. To do so, the program targeted barriers that organizations may face when entering underserved markets of New York City, such as regulatory barriers, risk aversion, and start-up costs. To decrease these barriers and increase the likelihood of business establishment, the FRESH program offers financial and zoning incentives. Financially, businesses may benefit from decreased land and building taxes, sales tax exemptions, and mortgage recording tax deferrals. Zoning incentives include additional development rights (one square foot of floor area in mixed residential/commercial zone for every one square foot provided for a grocery store), reduction in require parking, and larger as-of-right stores in light manufacturing areas. As of 2015, evaluations of the program have stated that FRESH has been successful in increasing food retail options in underserved neighborhoods across the city. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 |
Public Markets Ordinance No. 2011-Or-095
| Jurisdiction Name: | Minneapolis |
| State/Province: | MN |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 392,880 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | ordinance |
| Year: | 2011 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production, community food security |
| Keywords: | agricultural producer, farm processor, farmers market, farmers market license, farmers market ordinance, farmers market permit, food access, food market distributor, food market manufacturer, food retail, grower, home processor, institute for agriculture and trade policy, license, low-income, low-income neighborhood, meat and poultry processor, mini farmers market project, mini market, mini market ordinance, mini market permit, permit, produce and craft market, public market, public market temporary use permit, retail, small market, wild harvester |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Minneapolis City Council |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Minneapolis Licenses and Consumer Services |
| Support Entity(s): | Minneapolis Zoning Department, Minneapolis Health Department |
| Funding Amount: | not available |
| Funding Sources: | not available |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Amended the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances, Title 10. Food Code, Chapter 201. Public Markets, Sections 201.10, 201.20, 201.30, 201.40, 201.50, 201.60, 201.70, 201.80, 201.95, 201.120, and 201.130; defines the various types of public markets (farmers markets, mini markets, and produce and craft markets) and the types of vendors (food market distributor, food market manufacturer, agricultural producer, farm processor, wild harvester, grower, meat/poultry processor, and home processor) in Minneapolis; stipulates license requirements and application processes, health requirements, and insurance requirements for market and vendor types; requires at least 60% of farmers market vendors to be registered agricultural producers at farmers markets; formalized and streamlined permitting process for mini markets making it easier and less expensive for organizations to bring fresh and affordable produce to low-income neighborhoods |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 – Link 3 |
Horizon 2020, Joint Ordinance No. 8592
| Jurisdiction Name: | Lawrence |
| State/Province: | KS |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality/County |
| Population: | 89,512 |
| Population Range: | 50,000 to 249,999 |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | ordinance |
| Year: | 2011 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production |
| Keywords: | agricultural land, agricultural land protection, agriculture, comprehensive plan, food production, food system, land, land protection, local, production, regional, rural, rural agriculture, rural development, sustainable, urban |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Lawrence City Commission, Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Lawrence/Douglas County Planning and Development Services |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | not applicable |
| Funding Sources: | not applicable |
| Policy Outcome(s): | comprehensive plan amendments (2009 and 2011) incorporated goals and policies related to agriculture and the food system |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 |