305-B – Agricultural Data Statement.

§  305-b.  Agricultural data statement. 1. Submission, evaluation. Any
  application for a special use permit, site plan approval, use  variance,
  or  subdivision  approval  requiring  municipal review and approval by a
  planning board, zoning board of appeals, town board, or village board of
  trustees pursuant to article sixteen of the town law or article seven of
  the village law, that would occur on  property  within  an  agricultural
  district  containing  a  farm  operation  or on property with boundaries
  within five hundred feet of a farm operation located in an  agricultural
  district,  shall  include  an  agricultural data statement. The planning
  board, zoning board of appeals, town board, or village board of trustees
  shall evaluate and consider  the  agricultural  data  statement  in  its
  review  of  the  possible  impacts  of  the  proposed  project  upon the
  functioning of farm operations within such  agricultural  district.  The
  information  required  by an agricultural data statement may be included
  as part of any other application form required by local  law,  ordinance
  or regulation.
2.  Notice  provision.  Upon  the  receipt  of such application by the
  planning board, zoning board of appeals, town board, or village board of
  trustees, the clerk of such board shall  mail  written  notice  of  such
  application  to the owners of land as identified by the applicant in the
  agricultural data statement. The notice shall include a  description  of
  the  proposed  project  and its location, and may be sent in conjunction
  with any other notice required by state or local law, ordinance, rule or
  regulation for the project. The cost of  mailing  the  notice  shall  be
  borne by the applicant.
3. Content. An agricultural data statement shall include the following
  information: the name and address of the applicant; a description of the
  proposed  project and its location; the name and address of any owner of
  land  within  the  agricultural  district,  which  land  contains   farm
  operations  and  is  located within five hundred feet of the boundary of
  the property upon which the project is proposed; and a tax map or  other
  map showing the site of the proposed project relative to the location of
  farm operations identified in the agricultural data statement.