More green infrastructure legislation in San Fran and Milwaukee

Fantastic news from San Francisco with new urban farming legislation in the works. A community gardening czar will be hired to, among other things, develop incentives for backyard or spin farming, help start up two new urban farms and audit city owned property (on the ground and rooftop) to figure out where more gardens can go.

-Milwaukee is switching from encouraging green incentives for stormwater management to requiring them. The city will work with everyone to add 1 million gallons of storage capacity each year via swales, porous pavement and of course, green roofs. 

-Back in April I talked about the rise in municipalities thwarting the attempts of home owners to turn their lawns to food producing gardens. Grist picks up the baton and profiles a few more recent front lawn battles. The article is a little doom and gloom, I left a comment to let others know about bright spots, like Somerville, Massachusetts as we talked about two weeks ago.