2019 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture and Markets
Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs
324-A - Municipal Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plans.

§  324-a.  Municipal  agricultural  and  farmland protection plans. 1.
Municipalities may develop agricultural and farmland  protection  plans,
in  cooperation  with  cooperative  extension  and  other organizations,
including local farmers. These plans shall include, but not  be  limited
to:
  (a) the location of any land or areas proposed to be protected;
  (b)  an  analysis  of  the  following factors concerning any areas and
lands proposed to be protected:
  (i) value to the agricultural economy of the municipality;
  (ii) open space value;
  (iii) consequences of possible conversion; and
  (iv) level of conversion pressure on the lands or areas proposed to be
protected; and
  (c) a description of activities, programs  and  strategies,  including
efforts  to  support  the  successful transfer of agricultural land from
existing  owners  to  new  owners  and  operators,  especially  new  and
beginning  farmers,  intended  to be used by the municipality to promote
continued agricultural use, which may include  but  not  be  limited  to
revisions  to  the municipality's comprehensive plan pursuant to section
two hundred seventy-two-a of the  town  law  or  section  7-722  of  the
village law as appropriate.
  2.  The  municipality  shall  conduct  at least one public hearing for
public input regarding such agricultural and farmland  protection  plan,
and  shall thereafter submit such plan to the municipal legislative body
and the county agricultural farmland protection board for approval.
  3. The municipal agricultural and farmland  protection  plan  must  be
submitted by the municipality to the commissioner for approval.