The September Urban Ag Committee call, sponsored by INUAg (www.inuag.org) will be on the topic of "San Francisco Urban Ag Incentive Zones."
It will take place Thursday, September 25 at 1 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Central, 11am Mountain and 10 a.m. Pacific. The call-in number is 712-775-7000; access code is 437563#. More information below. This should be a great call. Hope you can join us! Cynthia Price and Betsy Johnson, co-chairs Rodger Cooley, Director, International Network for Urban Agriculture www. inuag.org Description: In August, San Francisco became the first city in California to create an urban agriculture incentive zone where landowners can receive a property tax reduction in exchange for committing their land to urban agricultural use for at least five years. The local legislation comes on the heels of earlier state legislation (AB 551 - the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones Act of 2013) that allows many cities and counties in California to create similar programs. Join us for a discussion of what led to the creation of these two bills and the details of how the program will be implemented in San Francisco. Presenters: Eli Zigas, Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program Manager, SPUR Hannah Shulman, Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator, City of San Francisco Background: Information on the state and local legislation: http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=15017 Details of SF government implementation: http://sfrecpark.org/wp-content/uploads/UAIZ-Application_FINAL-09-18-14.pdf Biographies: Hannah Shulman, Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator, City of San Francisco Hannah Shulman is the Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator for the city of San Francisco. Hannah holds a bachelor’s degree in Growth and Structure of Cities with an Environmental Studies concentration from Haverford College and studied at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz. Previously, she was the coordinator of the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, a garden educator, and director of operations for a locally-grown flower company. Eli Zigas Food Systems and Urban Agriculture Program Manager, SPUR Eli Zigas manages SPUR’s work on urban agriculture, regional foodshed planning, and creating a vibrant, accessible food system in the Bay Area. Prior to working at SPUR, Eli was program manager for DC Vote, an education and advocacy non-profit organization in Washington, D.C. A native of Washington, D.C., Eli made his way to San Francisco via Iowa, where he earned his B.A. in policy studies from Grinnell College. He is an active member of the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance. -- Rodger Cooley Director, International Network for Urban Agriculture, www.inuag.org [image: inuag-logo-2x] <http://www.inuag.org/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20140922/55b7b2d0/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 11117 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20140922/55b7b2d0/attachment.jpg> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
