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An Emerging Contradiction: Non-Farm Activity Within Exclusive Farm Use Zones, Nicholas Chun
An Emerging Contradiction: Non-Farm Activity Within Exclusive Farm Use Zones, Nicholas Chun
Metroscape
This installment of the Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape examines Oregon land use policy and non-farm use activities on agricultural lands that are zoned for exclusive farm use.
Poultry And The Press: Urban Chickens And The National Stage, Nicole Iroz-Elardo
Poultry And The Press: Urban Chickens And The National Stage, Nicole Iroz-Elardo
Metroscape
After a 2010 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference bus erupted into chatter from a tour guide’s passing comment about a new ordinance allowing chickens into Minneapolis backyards, I wondered about the magnitude of the urban chicken movement. Legalizing urban chickens is, in fact, occurring more often. A Lexus-Nexus Power Search of the term ‘chicken ordinance’ does not even register a hit in 2000. Yet in 2010, 141 articles discussed potential changes to urban chicken ordinances. Such an explosion of national news coverage suggests urban chicken keeping reaches beyond Portland’s borders.
What is driving this interest in urban …