Agriculture & Resource Protection Zoning District

The City of Auburn’s Agricultural and Resource Protection District

Rural Auburn has a unique Agricultural and Resource Protection (AGRP) District, which has been in place since the early 1960’s and contains over 40% of the city’s land area, or over 20,000 acres. The AGRP regulations have limited development and promoted food, agricultural, timber and natural resource production and associated uses. The AGRP regulations have significantly restricted development for the last 50+ years. Today however, the nature and trends of farming and food production have drastically changed. This means the AGRP regulations have created unintended consequences that should be evaluated as part of the study.

Over the last 2 years, growing concerns have been raised by the City Council and others to re-evaluate the Agricultural and Resource Protection District. Potential goals of this evaluation might include:

• Build community consensus on the future of the AGRP District through an open public forum and readily available resource information.
• Gain an understanding of how AGRP property owners and producers are utilizing their land, what their future plans are and find out if there are barriers to successful operations through property owner interviews and surveys.
• Determine the economic and community development potential for the AGRP District at both the local and regional level and create policies and regulations that meet that potential.

See below for details on the upcoming Public Meeting:

AGRP PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016

AUBURN CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS at 6:00 p.m.

 November 14, 2016 AGRP Public Meeting Invitation Letter

 Auburn Agricultural & Resource Protection Zone Information and Opinion Survey

 Auburn zoning map