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 addresses a community need, through farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, or other local food producers.
Table 2-1 Urban Agriculture Percentage Requirements
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 full-time equivalent (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.
CHANGES FROM LBC 3.1 TO 4.0
Several changes have been made to the requirements of this Imperative in order to increase the resiliency of projects and to expand the options available to project teams for integrating opportunities to connect the community with locally grown fresh food. On-site or scale-jumped urban agriculture is still required, however the percentage required is now based on Transect not FAR. In addition, an option has been added that allows project teams to provide weekly access to locally grown fresh food in combination with a reduced amount of urban agriculture. On-site food storage is now required for all non-residential projects, and on-site food storage capacity is required for all residential projects.
