I-02: Urban Agriculture – Above Green

INTENT

The intent of this Imperative is to integrate opportunities for connecting the community to locally grown fresh food.

REQUIREMENTS

All projects must dedicate a portion of their total project area to growing food, or they must dedicate a smaller portion of their total project area to growing food and must also directly provide weekly community access to healthy local food that address a community need, through farmers markets, CSA programs or other local food producers.

LIVING TRANSECT	Percent of total project area for Agriculture
LIVING TRANSECT	PATHWAY 1 Agriculture only	PATHWAY 2 Agriculture and food access
1	5%	2% and weekly access
2	20%	10% and weekly access
3	15%	7% and weekly access
4	10%	5% and weekly access
5	5%	2% and weekly access
6	2%	0% and weekly access

Scale jumping can be used as the means to expand the availability of healthy, local food (through agriculture or other means) to a specific population or the community in general via an off-site location such as a food bank, school, or other community resource.

Resilience Strategy

All projects (except residential projects) must provide access to food for 75% of FTE occupants for a minimum of three days during an emergency.

Residential projects must demonstrate the capacity to store at least a two-week supply of food.