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Facilitating Innovative Agricultural Enterprises: Considerations and Example Language for Vermont Municipalities
2012This guide and model was produced to help support and foster agricultural expansion through “agripreneurism,” or the diversification of on-farm businesses. -
Michigan Agricultural Tourism Local Zoning Guidebook and Model Zoning Ordinance Provisions
2012This guide offers model zoning ordinance provisions to help local governments address agricultural tourism. -
Lancaster County, PA, Agritourism Guidelines for the Promotion and Regulation of Farm-Based Tourism Enterprises
2009This guide offers model zoning language for agritourism uses. -
Local Food Networks
2008by: Brian Ross, AICPThis model ordinance presents a template to help cities and counties in Minnesota draft regulations for a special zoning district to encourage local food production. -
Cumberland County, PA, Urban Agricultural Series: Community Gardens Model Ordinance
November 2014This model ordinance draws from several ordinances from around Pennsylvania and surrounding states to help address issues with regulating community gardens in urban areas. -
Establishing Land Use Protections for Community Gardens
March 2009This model document provides comprehensive plan and zoning language to help cities protect and expand community gardens. -
Municipal Zoning for Local Foods in Iowa: A Guidebook for Reducing Local Regulatory Barriers to Local Foods
2012by: Gary Taylor, AICP, Andrea VaageThis guide provides information and sample zoning code language to help reduce barriers to and encourage urban agricultural activities in Iowa. -
Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture
October 2011by: Heather Wooten, Amy AckermanThis toolkit belongs to the Food Systems, Urban Agriculture and Urban Livestock collections. -
Hunterdon County, NJ, Environmental Toolbox
2002This collection of model ordinances includes one that addresses on-farm markets and farm stands that directly market farm products to the public. -
Indiana Model Agricultural Zoning Ordinances
November 2014by: Indiana Land Resources CouncilThis compendium of model ordinances sought to offer guidance to counties wanting to establish or update their zoning ordinances to include strategies to minimize conflicts between agricultural activities and non-agricultural uses. -
Lancaster County, PA, Agricultural Zoning District Guidelines for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
October 2010This guide, created as part of Lancaster County’s comprehensive planning process, provides information on agricultural zoning districts as mechanisms to help protect agricultural resources and industry. -
A Model Township Zoning Ordinance: Raising and Keeping of Chickens
n.d.This model ordinance written for Pennsylvania townships addresses the raising and keeping of chickens on a noncommercial basis at a residential property. -
Model Beekeeping Ordinance for Florida (Local and Municipal) Governments
n.d.This model ordinance was developed by the Beekeepers Association of Southwest Florida to regulate the keeping of honey bees. -
Model Beekeeping Ordinance
2007This model beekeeping ordinance was prepared by the Minnesota Hobby Beekeepers Association. -
Non-Commercial Keeping of Bees, Chickens, and Goats
2016by: Travis Carbaugh, Shaun FlynnThis student paper examines existing municipal efforts to regulate backyard bee, chicken, and goat keeping and proposes a model ordinance. -
Illegal Fowl: A Survey of Municipal Laws Relating to Backyard Poultry and a Model Ordinance for Regulating City Chickens
42 Environmental Law Reporter 10888, 2012by: Jaime BouvierThis article reports on municipal chicken-keeping ordinances in the 100 largest U.S. cities and offers a model ordinances for use by municipalities. -
Zoning Guidelines for Permitting Domestic Livestock Uses
2004This report analyzes the potential impacts of keeping livestock in residential areas and provides a list of model zoning definitions and specific standards. -
Model Municipal Ordinance: Establishment of an Agricultural Advisory Committee
November 2009This model ordinance establishes a process for creating a municipal agricultural advisory committee to help plan for the protection of agricultural resources. -
New Hampshire Innovative Land Use Planning Techniques: A Handbook for Sustainable Development
October 2008This model belongs to the Active Transportation, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Farmland Protection, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, Residential Infill Development, Scenic View Protection, Social Equity, Transfer of Development Rights, and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
Georgia Model Code: Alternatives to Conventional Zoning
June 2007by: Georgia Department of Community AffairsThis model unified development code belongs to the Design Review, Farmland Protection, Form-Based Zoning, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Scenic View Protection, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Municipal Strategies to Support Local Food Systems: Including Local Food in Comprehensive Plans and Urban Agriculture Ordinance Toolkit
September 2012This report is a two-part document that belongs to both the Food Systems and the Urban Agriculture collection. -
New Jersey Model Right to Farm Ordinance
This model right-to-farm ordinance lists a wide range of commercial farm uses protected under the ordinance, addresses dispute resolution, and requires a disclosure statement for real estate transactions for property adjacent to or near commercial farms. -
Massachusetts Model Right to Farm Bylaw/Ordinance
This model right to farm bylaw/ordinance intends to help protect the viability of farming by reiterating the importance of - and support for – farming within towns. -
Wisconsin Model Farmland Preservation Zoning Ordinances
These model ordinances for farmland preservation create a farmland preservation district within a community.
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