Planning for Healthy Places, in collaboration with the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), has developed several model policies that complement the material in our toolkits. These model policy "packages" explain why land use policies are important for supporting and protecting community gardens and farmers' markets, and provide model general plan and zoning language to encourage these uses. The language is designed to be tailored to meet individual communities’ needs.

Establishing Land Use Protections for Farmers' Markets
This memo includes the following:

• Introduction
• Model GENERAL PLAN Language to Protect and Expand Farmers’ Markets
• Model ZONING Language Establishing a Farmers’ Market as an Approved Use
• Farmers' Market Policy Language Only (MS Word .doc - for easy editing of model policy text)

Note that these model policies are provided as recommendations, based on best practices from communities around the country. Public health advocates and community groups are encouraged to work with their planning department and city attorney to identify where within its existing codes and policies the ordinances would best fit, make other amendments as necessary for consistency, and follow the appropriate procedures for amending general plans and zoning law.