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Promote the cultivation of Neighborhood Gardens in urban land, vacant or otherwise.

Created by I.C. on February 26, 2014

By allowing and promoting Agricultural uses in otherwise vacant infill urban land, the neighborhoods will be made stronger, many unemployed people may find something useful to do, it would create a more robust local economy and would help mitigate urban blight. the incentives could be:
1. repeal any regulation by government, homeowners associations, etc which may prohibit such use
2. property tax incentives given to land owners who install a neighborhood garden or lease for this purpose.
3. Local education campaigns on how to organize to create neighborhood gardens, through co-ops, etc.
4. Create agricultural credit programs for neighborhood gardens.

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