Voice your support for the Detroit Urban Agricultural Ordiance.
As you know, the effort to grow jobs in Detroit through urban agriculture, aquaculture, and business development and land repurposing has been our focus over the last three years. It is an effort that we could not have undertaken without your incredible support and assistance.
Now, we need your help again, as we move a step closer to success. The City Planning Commission has set 3 dates for community meetings to discuss the proposed Urban Agriculture Ordinance, and we need the full support of our Leadership Task Force and allies.
Will you help shape the future of urban agriculture in Detroit by lending your voice? This ordinance will pave the way for us to acquire and clean up land, employ Detroiters and begin to build on our longstanding vision.
As we work to secure land in Detroit for large-scale projects such as agricultural renewal and job production, you can tell the Detroit City Planning Commission how vital this ordinance is to making these initiatives happen.
The meeting dates are set for Wednesday, September 19, Monday, September 24, and Tuesday, September 25.
To quote the Wall Street Journal: Detroit has more than 200,000 vacant parcels—almost half of them residential plots—that generate no significant tax revenue and would cost more to maintain than the city can afford. Finding new uses for this land has become one of the most pressing challenges for a city that lost a quarter of its population in the past decade.
For RecoveryPark, our vision has always about getting land in use and people back to work; the ordinance is a critical step to making that happen.
Please sign up for one of the three upcoming community meetings, and voice your support for this new type of urban redevelopment. It is only with your help that we can create an urban food system that helps our residents, and our city, recover.
Hearing Dates and Locations
The schedule of meetings is as follows:
- Wednesday, September 19, 6 pm
St. Maron’s Hall 11466 Kercheval, Detroit, MI 48214 - Monday, September 24, 6 pm
Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church 2080 Grand River, Detroit, MI 48226 - Tuesday, September 25, 6 pm
Greater Grace Temple 23500 W. 7 Mile Detroit, MI 48219
The Proposed Urban Agriculture Ordinance: FAQ
Courtesy of the Detroit Food Policy Council
A nice summary of the issues and the process for zoning urban agriculture in the City of Detroit.
The Detroit Food Policy Council’s (DFPC) Urban Agriculture Advocates Work Group meets monthly to work on Detroit’s agriculture policy issues. Contact Kibibi Blount-Dorn at DFPC: (313) 833-0396 or kibibi.dfpc@gmail.com
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