In June 2009, the Mayor issued the Healthy and Sustainable Food Directive. Serving as the first phase of implementation of a local and sustainable food policy, the directive requires:
• Eight major departments to conduct audits of land under their jurisdiction to identify land suitable for gardening
• New health and sustainability measures to be applied to food vendors under city permits
• A “healthy meetings policy” for all City meetings, and to purchase only healthy and locally produced food
• Creating a new ordinance to require all food purchased by the City to be locally grown (within a 200-mile radius) using sustainable methods

The primary overseers of policy execution are the San Francisco Planning Department, Department of Public Health, and of the Environment.

Future, more general expectations incorporated in the policy are the improvement of healthy food distribution to low-income neighborhoods and residents; the promotion of urban agriculture through community, backyard, rooftop, and school gardens; the creation of green jobs and support of local food business; and the advancement of public education concerning healthy and local food choices.