This law allows community gardens in the City's "Community Residential Home, One to Six Residents" district and provides regulations for the same. Among other things, it allows selling produce under certain conditions and includes regulations to minimize potential adverse environmental impacts.
This policy may correspond to diet-related strategies identified by the County Health Rankings’ What Works for Health tool, including:
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We understand that this information is not comprehensive. It also does not include other important forms of evidence such as community members’ lived experiences and practice-based evidence.
See reference to: fruits or vegetables. § 16.50.085.2.
See references to the following: "environmental compliance" (§16.50.085.4.8)l; " prevent any chemical pesticide, fertilizer or other garden waste from draining off of the property." (§16.50.085.4.1)
"Community gardens may create impacts which can be detrimental to the quality of life on adjacent properties. The purpose and intent of this section is to establish appropriate standards that allow for a community garden use, while mitigating any associated undesirable impacts. A community garden is a principal use that allows the growing, harvesting and in districts allowing retail sales, the incidental retail sale, of edible fruits or vegetables or other plant products intended for ingestion by neighboring residents, friends, owners, and the permittees of the owner for their consumption and enjoyment and for the consumption and enjoyment of others on a not-for-profit basis, except as expressly allowed herein." §16.50.085
§ 16.90.020.3.
The roles and duties of the various review and decision-making bodies responsible for the administration of these regulations are generally set forth in § 16.80.040.
Section 16.50.085. - Community Gardens is located in Chapter 16 - Land Development Regulations. History: Ord. No. 933-G, § 1(16.50.085.4.7), 6-4-2009; Ord. No. 141-H, § 1, 11-24-2014.