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Kinderhook, NY: Excerpts from Zoning Code (includes prime farm overlay district) (Kinderhook, N.Y., Zoning Code art. I, § 81 (2000).)

Seneca, NY: Agricultural Zoning Ordinance (Seneca, N.Y., Zoning Code art. III, § 8 (2004).)

Ithaca, NY: Agricultural Zoning Ordinances (Ithaca, N.Y., Zoning Code §§ 601-614 (2004).)

Statistics
Farms	37,255
Land in farms (acres)	7,660,969
Market value of agricultural products sold ($1000)	3,117,834
Total land area (acres)	30,216,824
Agricultural land converted to developed uses (acres)	132,100
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Legislative Updates

New York Assembly Bill 8044-A (2008)

New York Senate Bill 7908 (2008)

New York Assembly Bill 7361 (2007)

Sample Documents

Rensselaer County, NY: Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan

Oswego County, NY: Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan

Livingston County, NY: Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan (2006)

Literature

FIC Fact Sheets

Farm Viability in Urbanizing Areas: Case Study on Orange County, New York

E-News July 2008

Agricultural and Farmland Protection for New York

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