Food Insecure Areas (SB 852)
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2026
This bill lets cities and counties change zoning and plans to allow small grocery stores in food deserts—areas with high poverty where many people live far from a supermarket. These stores must get at least 30% of sales from healthy foods like fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, and low-fat dairy. Local governments can require store reporting. Impact: easier access to healthy food, shorter trips, better health, and support for small food businesses.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want cities and counties to more easily approve small grocery stores that sell healthy food in food deserts and to allow local reporting to track access and outcomes.
Organizations that support this bill may include public health and nutrition advocates, anti-hunger nonprofits, community development groups, urban planners, and local governments seeking tools to reduce food deserts.
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Vote No on this bill if you want to keep current zoning limits unchanged and avoid new reporting requirements or special land-use allowances for certain grocers.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include neighborhood and homeowners groups worried about traffic or land-use changes, convenience store or small business associations concerned about reporting burdens, and limited-government or anti-regulation groups.
