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Agricultural Districts
New York’s Agricultural Districts Law, Article 25-AA PDF of the NYS Agriculture and Markets Law, was enacted in 1971 to help keep farmland in agricultural production.
Agricultural districts provide a combination of landowner incentives and protections that discourage the conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses, including:
- providing reduced property tax bills for agricultural lands - owners must apply for an agricultural assessment
- providing the framework to limit unreasonable local regulation on farm practices
- providing Right to Farm provisions that protect agriculture from private nuisance suits
- modifying state agency administrative regulations and procedures to encourage the continuation of farm businesses
- modifying the ability to advance public funds to construct facilities that encourage development
- preventing benefit assessments, special ad valorem levies, or other rates and fees on agricultural lands for the finance of improvements such as water, sewer or nonfarm drainage
- modifying the ability of public agencies to acquire farmland through eminent domain
Eight-Year Renewals
Agricultural Districts are renewed every eight years (schedule and district map below). During the renewal landowners can decide if they want their land to remain in the district, or be removed or added. Owners of land within the district will receive a mailed written notice of renewal. Public notices and announcements are also published.
Annual Inclusions/Additions
Landowners can request to have their land added to an agricultural district during an "inclusion" process that takes place annually. Lands can only be removed from a district through the eight-year renewal process.
Onondaga County
Agricultural Districts
2008 |
District |
Renewed |
Next
Renewal |
1 |
2002 |
2010 |
2 |
2004
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2012 |
3 |
2006 |
2014 |
4 |
2008
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2016 |
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Onondaga County
Agricultural Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4 as of 2008
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Click here to inquire
if a property is in an Agricultural District.
A Town of Onondaga farm
located in Agricultural District 1
AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT 1
EIGHT-YEAR RENEWAL
Otisco, Onondaga, Lafayette, Tully
Unofficial Agricultural District 1 Map
8.5 x 11 (1.23 MB)
Suggested modifications
(parcel additions or removals)
accepted through
January 31, 2010.
Submit modifications to and
view the official map at the:
Clerk of the Onondaga County Legislature Onondaga County Court House
401 Montgomery Street - 4th Floor
Syracuse, New York, 13202
Contact Bobbie Harrison of
the Cornell Cooperative
Extension of Onondaga County
at 315-424-9485 regarding
eight-year renewals
and annual additions/inclusions.
Ag District maps are also
available in the Map Gallery.
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