The second Land Use Working Group workshop, held on December 11, focused on land use policies and programs applicable to the rural-urban edge. Participants reviewed the land use innovations presented in the Land Use working paper and discussed the benefits and drawbacks of each of them as they are applied in cities and counties in the region.
Input on the innovations will be folded into the Land Use Working paper to provide a full picture of the land use policies and programs that influence the rural parts of the region. Among the top innovations identified by the group, buffers, boundaries delineating urban growth versus rural preserve areas, city and county agreements to plan for agriculture, and agricultural mitigation and conservation easements, were seen as beneficial in some applications or having potential to support agriculturalviability at the rural-urban interface.
To read and comment on the Land Use working paper, visit the RUCS wiki at: www.sacog.org/rucs. For more information contact Kacey Lizon at (916) 340-6265 or klizon@sacog.org.