{"id":13844,"date":"2012-03-31T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:41:04","slug":"ocpm-announces-urban-agriculture-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/31\/ocpm-announces-urban-agriculture-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"OCPM Announces Urban Agriculture Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/31\/ocpm-announces-urban-agriculture-consultation\/img_1054\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13866\" title=\"IMG_1054\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/IMG_1054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/IMG_1054.jpg 350w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/IMG_1054-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montrealers asked for it, and the City of Montreal is delivering: the OCPM has announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/ocpm.qc.ca\/agricultureurbaine\">public consultation about Urban Agriculture<\/a> from May 12th &#8211; June 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2009, Montreal&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=3036,3377687&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL\"> Charter of rights and responsibilities<\/a> gives citizens the <a href=\"http:\/\/ocpm.qc.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/P58\/1b4.pdf\">right to\u00a0initiate\u00a0a public consultation<\/a>\u00a0on almost any municipal issue: they simply have to gather 15,000 supporting signatures within 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the Working Group on Urban Agriculture doubled that number: on November 15th they presented 29,000 signatures at city hall to\u00a0initiate a city-wide consultation about urban agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>CRAPAUD, one of the members of proposed a\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crapaud.uqam.ca\/?page_id=1687\">citizens charter on urban agriculture<\/a>, taking into account such elements as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>urban agriculture as a way of addressing of food security;<\/li>\n<li>transportation of food and support for local\u00a0food production;<\/li>\n<li>educational opportunities and potential for social, intergenerational and intercultural mixing;<\/li>\n<li>the value of urban agriculture in term sof urban sustainability, greening and biodiversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While that may all seem relatively uncontroversial, the propositions also have far-reaching implications in terms of urbanism and citizen&#8217;s rights to urban space. The proposed working group would like the City to\u00a0recognize urban agriculture as a necessary and essential component of a sustainable urban system. This would require\u00a0developing a specific zoning and land valuation system to allow land to be permanently dedicated to urban agriculture, with the implication that all citizens mush have access.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Working Group is composed of\u00a0Action Communiterre, Alternatives, the Urban Ecology Centre, Conseil r\u00e9gional de l\u2019environnement Montr\u00e9al, March\u00e9 solidaire frontenac, CRAPAUD (Collectif de Recherche sur l\u2019am\u00e9nagement paysager et l\u2019agriculture\u00a0urbaine\u00a0durable), Regroupement des jardins collectifs du Qu\u00e9bec and Santropol Roulant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Urban agriculture will certainly be one of the topics adressed during\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.qc.ca\/en\/education-events\/1656-a-taste-for-montreal\">A Taste for Montreal,\u00a0<\/a>an event\u00a0in collaboration with Spacing Montreal, Avenue 8 and the CCA, which takes place on April 5th 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montrealers asked for it, and the City of Montreal is delivering: the OCPM has announced a public consultation about Urban Agriculture from May 12th &#8211; June 18th. Since 2009, Montreal&#8217;s Charter of rights and responsibilities gives citizens the right to\u00a0initiate\u00a0a public consultation\u00a0on almost any municipal issue: they simply have to gather 15,000 supporting signatures within<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/31\/ocpm-announces-urban-agriculture-consultation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;OCPM Announces Urban Agriculture Consultation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7829,39,7835,7840],"tags":[229,8,10,455,6249,7152,125,159,3936,112,8222,830,1186],"class_list":["post-13844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-food","category-green-space","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-city-hall","tag-environment","tag-food-2","tag-food-security","tag-local-food-production","tag-montreal","tag-office-de-consultation-publique-de-montreal","tag-one-of-the-members","tag-public-consultation-consultation-publique","tag-spacing","tag-transportation-2","tag-urban-ecology-centre"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OCPM Announces Urban Agriculture Consultation - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/31\/ocpm-announces-urban-agriculture-consultation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OCPM Announces Urban Agriculture Consultation - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Montrealers asked for it, and the City of Montreal is delivering: the OCPM has announced a public consultation about Urban Agriculture from May 12th &#8211; June 18th. 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