Kansas City is updating its Urban Agriculture Ordinance, and your voice matters! Whether you’re a gardener, community organizer, urban farmer, or local foodie, this is your chance to shape policies that support sustainable, equitable, and vibrant urban growing space. Visit KCMO website HERE.
The Big Picture Overview
The Planning and Development department and the Office of Environmental Quality have held on-going stakeholder meetings to guide the updates to urban agriculture ordinance text leading up to these proposed changes.
Goals
- 🥕 Reorganize the code for clarity.
- 🍓 Be more specific about allowed structures for each use.
- 🍅 Re-naming the use categories.
New Categories
The following new categories are being proposed to better reflect activities that urban growers engage in.
🥦 Garden
Growing food or other horticulture products, associated with a residential, institutional, or commercial use, maintained by one or more individuals who occupy the subject property.
For example: Gardens at your home, apartment complex, neighborhood, or work office
🍠 Urban Farm
Undeveloped land, under 3 acres, managed and maintained by an individual or group of individuals to grow and harvest food and/or horticultural products for sale or donation.
For example: farming is primary use of land, for business or non-profit organization
🥬 Urban Farm Mixed-Use
An Urban Farm (3 acres or more) or an Urban Farm plus one or more uses, see 88-312-02 for more regulations.
For example: multiple uses on a property such as farming, composting, farm stands, wedding/concerts, regularly scheduled events (weekly/monthly)
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Use Category Zoning Approval Requirements
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