City of Prince George Official Community Plan Bylaw 8383

Topic	Sub-topic	Policy or Policy Excerpt	Document Location	Language Rating
food sales, access and procurement; nutrition and public health;	grocery stores;	Support increased consumer access to local and healthy food through local food institutions and retail markets throughout the community.	7.3.5	*
nutrition and public health;		Encourage fast food outlets to locate a minimum distance from youth-oriented facilities such as schools and playgrounds.	7.3.6
food self reliance;		Support agricultural and food systems planning to improve the current state of food systems and to encourage local food self reliance.	7.3.7
food self reliance;			7.3.7
food sales, access and procurement;		Ensure that food and agricultural spaces are accessible to all people.	7.3.8
policy partnerships, advocacy and development;		Ensure existing policies and bylaws help eliminate barriers to sustainable food and agriculture systems.	7.3.9
food sales, access and procurement;	farmers' markets; grocery stores;	Support improvements to public transportation to make grocery stores and farmer’s markets accessible to all residents.	7.3.10
education;	community food system education;	Support food and agricultural opportunities in education and community facilities, parks and open spaces.	7.3.11
education;	community food system education;		7.3.11
urban agriculture;	urban gardens/orchard;	Support the development of community gardens and community kitchens.	7.3.12	*
urban agriculture;	urban gardens/orchard;		7.3.12	*
urban agriculture;	urban gardens/orchard;	Promote attractive agricultural and community gardens in highly visible public or semi-private spaces, ensuring balance with wildlife considerations.	7.3.13
education; food self reliance; food production;	research and data collection;	Encourage research and education on local food production and self-reliance	7.3.15
food sales, access and procurement; urban agriculture;	residential development;	Encourage provision of affordable food sources such as on site growing spaces in new affordable housing developments.	7.5.12
urban-agriculture conflict and edge planning;		The City should encourage development on the urban edge to consider integration of urban and agricultural uses and activities through design and layout.	8.2.19
urban agriculture;	amenity density zoning/contributions; residential development;	The City should encourage neighbourhood development projects with green space larger than 0.5 ha to integrate urban agriculture in their design and programming.	8.2.20	*
food sales, access and procurement; urban agriculture;	urban gardens/orchard; community kitchen; residential development;	The City should require new multiple residential development applications to consider a sustainable food system approach, for example providing growing space, providing community kitchen amenities and/or allocation of funds toward such community amenities.	8.2.21	*
urban agriculture;	urban gardens/orchard;	The City should facilitate community gardens in Growth Priority Areas. The City should consider providing land, working with organizers for community gardens based on community interest and initiative, and designating a staff liaison to facilitate this role.	8.2.22	*
urban agriculture;	wildlife and ecosystem management;	The City should ensure urban agriculture implementation does not conflict with Urban Interface Policies (human-bear conflict) and is consistent with Health and Safety regulations.	8.2.23	*
food sales, access and procurement; urban agriculture; food processing, storage and distribution;	food distribution;urban gardens/orchard;	The City should allocate space within City parks, open space, school yards, rights-of-way, City owned facilities, surplus properties, and redevelopment parcels for growing and distributing/selling food. Prioritize vacant, underutilized or derelict sites as identified within the SGOG, Public Works: Civic Improvements section.	8.2.24	*
food processing, storage and distribution; food production; urban agriculture;	food storage; urban gardens/orchard; greenhouses; residential development;	The City should encourage community greenhouses and gardens and ensure that small-scale food production and storage buildings and structures (e.g., root cellars) are permitted in residential areas.	8.2.25	*
economic development;	agri-tourism; residential development;	The City should consider permitting agri-tourism uses ancillary to agricultural operations. These may include for example accommodations similar in scale to B&B’s, food sales, farm tours, and farm-based recreation.	8.3.115
development and productive use of agricultural land;	ALR exclusion; ALR subdivision; ALR; 'benefit to agriculture' language;	The City should support ALR designations within the City’s boundaries. Changes to the designation should be supported only if land is shown by a qualified professional to have limited agricultural suitability and where land use changes work to support food and agriculture systems (e.g., farmland dedications of equal or greater value for community trust and/or upgrades to farming or farmland infrastructure).	8.3.116	*
development and productive use of agricultural land;		The City should direct incompatible land uses away from land identified with high agricultural capability.	8.3.117	*