Alameda County Local Agency Formation Commission (Alameda LAFCO) and the Alameda County Resource Conservation District (ACRCD), received funding from the California Climate Investments Program, as administered by the California Department of Conservation to further the mission of protecting agricultural land in the county through our Alameda County Agricultural Resiliency Project (ACARP).
The Project aimed to establish a countywide coalition of Stakeholders working within Alameda County to review agricultural policies and highlight urban agricultural land-use opportunities. This culminated in a plan to promote conservation of agricultural lands within the County.
Specifically, the Stakeholder Planning Process identified issues with current municipal policies impacting agricultural land-use conversion in Alameda County and recommend changes thereto. As part of the planning process, we developed prioritization criteria to identify and map priority areas of agricultural lands at-risk of conversion to more intensive greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting land uses in proximity to urban growth boundaries of cities and within unincorporated areas of Alameda County. This planning process also identified and mapped priority sites for installation of urban gardens within infill development areas, with specific focus on disadvantaged low-income and unincorporated communities within Alameda County.
Read the ACARP 5.1 Final Report.
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