[P2P-F] Fwd: [p2p-research] Legislation for Urban Agriculture in Pittsburgh PA passes

Fri Feb 4 15:53:12 CET 2011

Shoot, sent to old list. I'll try to keep an eye on that.

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> franco: still getting p2p-research mails it seems ...
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> From: Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:56 PM
> Subject: [p2p-research] Legislation for Urban Agriculture in Pittsburgh PA
> passes
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> Sent to me from http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=620756280 via
> facebook email
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> "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."
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