franco: still getting p2p-research mails it seems ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samuel Rose <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:56 PM Subject: [p2p-research] Legislation for Urban Agriculture in Pittsburgh PA passes To: Peer-To-Peer Research List <[email protected]> Sent to me from http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=620756280 via facebook email "It seems the city has passed legislation for having bees,chickens,and urban gardens-there is a grant fund -I think to help pay for permits -but I don't know the details-I pasted Janas e mail here with some info: Hello, The council did pass the version of the ordinance as we saw it in August of 2010 so chickens and bee are in. It now sits for ten days from the date of voting, Jan 26, and then becomes law(the mayor could sign it and speed things up). Also passed was the Urban Agriculture Education Fund, offered up from Councilman Peduto. It is $30,000 to help pay the fees associated with getting through the Zoning Office for the right to have these animals or sell your produce. All I know so far is what was in the motion. It is below. It looks like our individual neighborhood organizations are going to have to hold educational classes and then distribute monies. It's pretty smart, the neighborhood organization decides if they are going to actively support urban farming. So once again, this is all I know. I have a call in to Mr. Peduto's office to learn more. Will let you know. Thank you all for your different ways of helping throughout this time, I appreciate it. Jana Thompson Section 1. The Mayor and the Director of the Department of City Planning, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby authorized to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with community organization/s to offer grants/assistance to applicants who take proper training in urban agriculture in various neighborhoods of the City in an amount not to exceed $30,000.00, chargeable to and payable from the following account: Urban Agriculture Education Fund. Org. 110000, Fund 6100, BY 2011, Subclass PGHPR, P/G 2267418, Acct. 000000." --end quote -- -- -- Sam Rose Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 skype: samuelrose email: [email protected] http://forwardfound.org http://futureforwardinstitute.org http://hollymeadcapital.com http://p2pfoundation.net http://socialmediaclassroom.com "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan _______________________________________________ p2presearch mailing list [email protected] http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens