Take action on market gardens!
Toronto City Council is working on bylaw amendments that will allow market gardens and farm stands in residential areas
We need to show our support!
Next Thursday, October 30 the Community Within Reach: Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods (EHON) Neighbourhood Retail and Services Study will go to Committee. This report explicitly includes market gardens as a permitted use on property zoned as residential (in some cases).
These bylaw changes will make market gardens legal in more places in the city.
There are people opposed to the bylaw changes because they are afraid that their neighbourhoods will be overrun with bars and cannabis shops.
We need to speak up in favour of allowing market gardens and farm stands.
There are two actions:
1. Write to the Committee
2. Come to a messaging jam and work on the issue together
1. Write to Committee
Write to Councillors on the Planning and Housing Committee
to tell them that you want to see market gardens and farm stands in your
neighbourhood.
Brad Bradford,
Beaches East York councillor_bradford@toronto.ca
Vincent Crisanti,
Etobicoke North Councillor_Crisanti@toronto.ca
Josh Matlow,
Toronto St. Paul’s councillor_matlow@toronto.ca
Jamaal Myers, Scarborough
North Councillor_Myers@toronto.ca
Frances
Nunziata (Vice Chair), York South-Weston councillor_nunziata@toronto.ca
Gord Perks (Chair),
Parkdale-High Park councillor_perks@toronto.ca
To reach the
whole committee, you can send an email to Nancy Martins at phc@toronto.ca with your letter as a PDF
attachment.
See the TUG City Council toolkit for more information on tips for writing to City Council.
See the meeting
page for the reports and other information about the bylaw https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2565/25814
Don’t know who your
councillor is? Look it up at https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/council/members-of-council/
2. Come to an online messaging jam Tuesday, October 28 6:00 p.m.
- Get info about the bylaw and why it’s important
- Give input on a TUG petition
- Write and send your message to your councillor and the Planning and Housing Committee
The jam is
happening just before the Ask an Urban Farmer panel. Come for the jam, stay for
the farmers!
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