To: David Westervelt, Apiary Inspection Assistant Chief and Richard Gaskalla, Director, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

We support urban beekeepers in Florida.

We support urban beekeepers in Florida! Please be sure all legislation and regulations encourage urban beekeeping to continue & to flourish. Please remove unrealistic restrictions on the placement of urban apiaries and remove across the board limits on the number of hives per apiary.

Why is this important?

New Best Management Requirements will become law in Florida on August 10th, 2013. A public hearing was held July 30th, 2013, and many urban beekeepers found the requirements as written to be unfair, vague, or in some cases prohibitive of urban beekeeping. Your signature will help rule makers realize that the people of Florida support urban beekeeping.

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