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June 26, 2015
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Forum: Regional Planning and Local Food Systems
Cleveland OH
Increasingly, interest in local food systems development has stimulated new approaches to municipal and regional planning. A healthy local food system emerges at the nexus of responsible land-use planning and farmland preservation, infrastructure planning and logistics, economic development, vacant land and building re-utilization, and neighborhood food access. Local food systems are inherently regional. Supply chains, supporting infrastructure for distribution or processing, and waste re-utilization often occur across multiple counties. Is there a role for urban and regional planning in healthy food systems development? Can Metropolitan Planning Organizations play a role in supporting cross-regional connections to foster the growth of the local food economy? How do local food systems work in the fragmented municipal and county landscape of Northeast Ohio?
Friday, June 2610AM - 12PMNOACA, 1299 Superior Avenue
Click here to register.
Featured Speaker:
Brian Williams, Agriculture Specialist, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
Panelists:
Bob Brown, City Planning Consultant (Former Director of City Planning for Cleveland)
Brian Gwin, Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center
Elsa Higsby, Grow Youngstown
Courtney Johnson, Ashtabula Food Council
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Forum: Regional Planning and Local Food Systems
Increasingly, interest in local food systems development has stimulated new approaches to municipal and regional planning. A healthy local food system emerges at the nexus of responsible land-use planning and farmland preservation, infrastructure planning and logistics, economic development, vacant land and building re-utilization, and neighborhood food access. Local food systems are inherently regional. Supply chains, supporting infrastructure for distribution or processing, and waste re-utilization often occur across multiple counties. Is there a role for urban and regional planning in healthy food systems development? Can Metropolitan Planning Organizations play a role in supporting cross-regional connections to foster the growth of the local food economy? How do local food systems work in the fragmented municipal and county landscape of Northeast Ohio?
Friday, June 2610AM - 12PMNOACA, 1299 Superior Avenue
Click here to register.
Featured Speaker:
Brian Williams, Agriculture Specialist, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
Panelists:
Bob Brown, City Planning Consultant (Former Director of City Planning for Cleveland)
Brian Gwin, Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center
Elsa Higsby, Grow Youngstown
Courtney Johnson, Ashtabula Food Council
Cleveland OH