Referred to: The Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

Committee (Chairman Maloney and Legislators Berky, Delaune, Lapp, Litts, Maio

and Rodriguez), and The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and

Legislators Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs, Maio, and Maloney)

Chairman of the Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning, and Transit

Committee, James F. Maloney, and Deputy Chairman Hector Rodriguez offer the

following:

WHEREAS, Ulster County has established a 30 day review period for the

addition of lands to Agricultural Districts in accordance with NYS Agriculture and

Markets Law Article 25AA, Section 303-b; and

WHEREAS, the 30 day review period for the additions of lands to

Agricultural Districts as set by the County ended on March 30, 2016; and

WHEREAS, the Agricultural Farmland Protection Board received requests

from landowners to include parcels of land in Agricultural Districts; and

WHEREAS, Agriculture and Markets Law Article 25AA, Section 303-b

requires a Public Hearing to be held concerning the addition of one or more parcels

of land to Agricultural Districts; and

WHEREAS, Agriculture and Markets Law Article 25AA, Section 303-b also

requires directly notifying, in writing, those municipalities whose territory

encompasses lands proposed for inclusion in Agricultural Districts; now, therefore,

be it

RESOLVED, that the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby

directed to act according to NYS Agriculture and Markets Law Section 303-b to

cause a legal notice of said Public Hearing to be published, and to provide a copy of

the hearing notice in writing, to all municipalities that have lands proposed for

inclusion in Agricultural Districts; and be it further

RESOLVED, that said Public Hearing will be held on June 21, 2016 at 7:15

PM, or as soon thereafter as the public can be heard, in the Legislative Chambers,

Ulster County Office Building, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, New York; 

and moves its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislator Gerentine)

Passed Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and

Transit on May 3, 2016

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on May 10, 2016

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COUNTY OF ULSTER

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is

the original resolution adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on the 17th Day of May in the year Two Thousand and

Sixteen, and said resolution shall remain on file in the office of said clerk.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 18th Day of May in

the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature