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frCALT <br />twin cities community <br />agricultural land trust <br />ShII"P <br />statewide health <br />improvement partnership <br />% RAMSEY COUNTY <br />Mounds View: Mechanisms Facilitating and Discouraging Urban Agriculture <br />Valentine Cadieux, Kara Komoto, Kieran Morris <br />TCALT; tcalt@tcalt.org <br />Purpose: This memo provides an overview of the main mechanisms facilitating and discouraging <br />food cultivation in Mounds View policies and practices. <br />KEY POINTS BASED ON A 2022 REVIEW: <br />• The City of Mounds View does not appear to have any public spaces where people can <br />cultivate food despite having many city parks with community amenities. Ardan Park has <br />a yard waste and food scraps collection site operated by Ramsey County where residents <br />can drop off food scraps and yard and garden waste, and pick up compost. <br />• Where and how urban agriculture can be practiced in Mounds View is unclear. Urban <br />agriculture is not a land use addressed in the zoning code outside of farming in the <br />floodway district; chickens, ducks, and bees as a permitted use in R-1; and greenhouses <br />as a conditional use in R-1. Zoning code that affects urban agriculture should be more <br />transparent. <br />• Mounds View does not appear to have plans to incorporate urban agriculture into its <br />landscape based on its comprehensive plan. The city should consider facilitating urban <br />agriculture as part of its goal to support community health and increase access to healthy <br />food. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Mounds View Urban Agriculture Policy Table <br />Compost <br />Water Access <br />Fowl/Livestock <br />Bees <br />Backyard and <br />Permit required to obtain <br />Chickens and ducks allowed <br />Keeping of <br />small compost <br />water from a municipal <br />with permit (1 year) <br />honeybees <br />sites shall <br />water system hydrant <br />allowed with <br />comply with <br />license (valid <br />State Pollution <br />indefinitely while <br />hives operated <br />continuously) <br />Control Agency <br />rules <br />Sale of <br />Land Disturbance <br />Fences <br />Equipment <br />Products <br />Storage <br />Selling of <br />Tilling, planting, harvesting <br />1) No fence shall exceed 8' in <br />Accessory <br />produce is <br />of agricultural crops <br />height <br />buildings and <br />Mounds View: 1 <br />