Garfield County Zoning Regulations consider its Rural Zone, with minimum 2-acre lot sizes, to allow Agriculture and Accessory Buildings (max. height 40') for Agricultural Use without size restrictions, and as a Use by Right.
Download Garfield Zoning Code 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tim Lindholm's List: Zoning for Local Agriculture
Meeting with Cindy Houben, December 9, 2009
Removing code barriers to sustainable building and local food:
1) Encourage detached greenhouse construction and use for year round food production by not including greenhouse footprint as FAR. Support greenhouses on small acreages (less than 20 acres), in subdivision open space, in community gardens wherever there is a concentration of people, energy, and resources for growing year round food.
2) Encourage attached greenhouse construction (integral to a residence but separted by door) for genuine small scale year round food production by not including greenhouse footprint as FAR. Advantages include increased year round attention and potential for common wall to temper heat requirements. Creatively address abuse of this privilege perhaps through deed restriction or some other instrument.
3) Encourage a local food economy by removing code barriers to fruit tree, honey bee, and small scale livestock stewarding. Creatively address wildlife issues instead of outright banning of food production. Encourage value added local cottage industry related to food production by simplifying approval of kitchens for this work.
4) Encourage renewable energy projects with codes that fast track or otherwise help individuals, businesses, and public entities design and build these projects in a timely fashion (reduce time and costs by creatively designing the permitting process to fast track these projects.) Proactively identify systems and designs that people could/should consider.
5) Encourage sustainable building projects by identifying these projects first and early to get them on a fast track. Consider the living building challenge www.ilbi.com as a resource for identifying and encouraging these projects which already require more time and consideration in their design.
a) Promote the use of healthy, local materials.
b) Promote stawbale wall construction by not including in FAR calculations.
c) Promote the catchment, storage, and reuse of rainwater and graywater from structures and sites (now being tested at the state level in Colorado).
d) See www.ilbi.com for their twenty areas of focus and for ideas for removing code barriers.
6) Encourage the preservation of existing agricultural structures on small acreages as well as on large for support of genuine local food production. Loafing sheds and barns needed on small acreages as well as large for support of this sustainable movement towards local agriculuture.
(personal example of having to remove sheds while big land owners are building huge barns).
7) Encourage energy efficiency and accurate identification of “green” building projects with energy use calculations up front (ask Rick Heede about this)(he uses kWh/sf-yr, kWh/day, tonnes CO2e/yr, and lb CO2e/sf-yr as measures) (snowmass caucus still promoting large projects, for example, with out understanding their carbon footprint).
8) Encourage genuine small scale farming through all of the above (which will in turn promote local commerce, livelihood, community, simplicity, durability, healthy soil, lower energy use, and hopefully as sense of well being for those choosing to live in this area).
DOWNLOAD WORD FILE
DOWNLOAD PDF FILE
Removing code barriers to sustainable building and local food:
1) Encourage detached greenhouse construction and use for year round food production by not including greenhouse footprint as FAR. Support greenhouses on small acreages (less than 20 acres), in subdivision open space, in community gardens wherever there is a concentration of people, energy, and resources for growing year round food.
2) Encourage attached greenhouse construction (integral to a residence but separted by door) for genuine small scale year round food production by not including greenhouse footprint as FAR. Advantages include increased year round attention and potential for common wall to temper heat requirements. Creatively address abuse of this privilege perhaps through deed restriction or some other instrument.
3) Encourage a local food economy by removing code barriers to fruit tree, honey bee, and small scale livestock stewarding. Creatively address wildlife issues instead of outright banning of food production. Encourage value added local cottage industry related to food production by simplifying approval of kitchens for this work.
4) Encourage renewable energy projects with codes that fast track or otherwise help individuals, businesses, and public entities design and build these projects in a timely fashion (reduce time and costs by creatively designing the permitting process to fast track these projects.) Proactively identify systems and designs that people could/should consider.
5) Encourage sustainable building projects by identifying these projects first and early to get them on a fast track. Consider the living building challenge www.ilbi.com as a resource for identifying and encouraging these projects which already require more time and consideration in their design.
a) Promote the use of healthy, local materials.
b) Promote stawbale wall construction by not including in FAR calculations.
c) Promote the catchment, storage, and reuse of rainwater and graywater from structures and sites (now being tested at the state level in Colorado).
d) See www.ilbi.com for their twenty areas of focus and for ideas for removing code barriers.
6) Encourage the preservation of existing agricultural structures on small acreages as well as on large for support of genuine local food production. Loafing sheds and barns needed on small acreages as well as large for support of this sustainable movement towards local agriculuture.
(personal example of having to remove sheds while big land owners are building huge barns).
7) Encourage energy efficiency and accurate identification of “green” building projects with energy use calculations up front (ask Rick Heede about this)(he uses kWh/sf-yr, kWh/day, tonnes CO2e/yr, and lb CO2e/sf-yr as measures) (snowmass caucus still promoting large projects, for example, with out understanding their carbon footprint).
8) Encourage genuine small scale farming through all of the above (which will in turn promote local commerce, livelihood, community, simplicity, durability, healthy soil, lower energy use, and hopefully as sense of well being for those choosing to live in this area).
DOWNLOAD WORD FILE
DOWNLOAD PDF FILE
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)