Assets

• Beauty in Natural Resources
• Awareness of losing farmland
• Climate to support specialty/niche crops, cool weather crops
• People power and money power
• Numerous small farms
• Biodiversity/rare and endangered to protect land from development
• Tourism
• Water
• Education
• ASU not land grant
• Mixed development, on campus housing, transportation issues
• Sustainable tourism (Eco-, Cultural, Agri-, Heritage)
• Appal Cart - mass transit

Barriers

• Tourism
• Education
• Monoculture
• Price/value of land
• Taxation
• Profitability
• Unjust labor cost
• ASU increase in enrollment
• Limited on campus housing
• Urban sprawl

Questions

• How can ASU students be engaged in practical application of classroom theory?
• What sustainable Econ Models exist to learn from?
• Tax policies - open spaces vs. residential
• What kind of specialty niche crops can be grown to support farms? Retention of land.
• How do we change tax system?
• What would be the next best place/system to preserve land?
• Can breaks be given to farmers?
• How can tourists be taxed?
• What government (county or otherwise) ordinances exist to keep locally produced goods in the region?
• Is it possible fro ASU to have condensed more on campus housing? Rather than purchasing new lands?
• How can transportation systems develop so that new lands aren’t paved?
• What incentives to preserve/restore barns? “Barn Again” program.