San Diego city planners have proposed rule changes that would make it easier to keep backyard chickens and for residents to become urban farmers. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson
By Adrian Florido
San Diego city planners have released proposed law changes that would make it easier to be a farmer within city limits. They include allowing backyard chickens, miniature goats and a new kind of business called a retail farm that is combination between a farm and store.
The new rules are intended to promote urban agriculture within city limits, and planners will present them to a City Council committee on Wednesday.
They’re the city’s latest effort to encourage local food production. Earlier this year, the council approved a law that allows community gardens to be planted on most vacant land in San Diego. Local food advocates had been pushing the city to eliminate the almost insurmountable hurdles that had limited gardens citywide.
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