AGENCY TESTIMONY
Land access and urban agriculture dashboard
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MOUA is working to improve access to underutilized city-owned land for urban agriculture, while balancing other critical land uses such as housing.
- The office has created an urban agriculture dashboard that includes a mapping tool.
- The dashboard incorporates the Department of Citywide Administrative Services' (DCAS) list of city-owned and leased properties suitable for urban agriculture.
- MOUA is planning innovative land use agreements to allow for a greater range of urban agriculture activities on city-owned land.
Qiana Mickie
0:15:08
Additionally, as mentioned in our annual progress report, we are working to enable better access to underutilized city owned land for growers and existing and emerging small urban agriculture business enterprises.
0:15:21
Increased land access will be critical to growing hyper local food production in the city and must be done strategically, so as not to compete with other critical land uses such as housing.
0:15:34
We've created the urban agriculture dashboard, which includes a mapping tool and have incorporated the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, also known as DCAS, Local Law 48 of 2011, mandated sustainability suitability of city owned and leased property for urban agriculture list in that dashboard.
0:15:56
We are also in the planning stages for innovative land use agreements that would allow for a greater range of urban agriculture based activity on city owned land.
0:16:05
So we're really thinking about land use as well as the contracts and agreements that help people activate on those city owned properties and parcels of land.
