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Burnaby Food Security Pilot

Burnaby recently had a housing initiative where homeowners could apply for grants to help them modify their homes to have rental suites or laneway homes. While I'm sure this will increase the amount of rental inventory available, I felt that for the average person, the barriers to participation were too high, primarily: Not even knowing how to get started evaluating whether they could add a rental suite or laneway home. The cost of doing so even with the grant. I wondered how homeowners could use their properties to help Burnaby in an extremely simple way, and with GROK AI we came up with the idea of micro-farms. It addresses climate change, water conservation (or at least better water usage than grass), and food security. And all the homeowner needs to do is sign up and not interfere. No access to their home would be necessary, just access to their lawn and external power and water outlets. I'm sure the implementation will end up more complicated than we imagined, but I hope a...