NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON MODIFICATION AND CONTINUATION OF AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR WITHIN THE TOWNS OF ALFRED, ALMA, ANDOVER, BOLIVAR, GENESEE, INDEPENDENCE, WARD, AND WILLING NOTICE is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Allegany County Board of Legislators at the Legislators’ Chambers, Room 221, County Office Building, Belmont, New York, on March 27, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., on the modification/and or continuation of Agricultural District Number Four being within the Towns of ALFRED, ALMA, ANDOVER, BOLIVAR, GENESEE, INDEPENDENCE, WARD, AND WILLING originally created as Agricultural District Number Six in the County of Allegany on August 7, 1977, and renamed Agricultural District Four on May 28, 2002, and modified and continued on February 25, 2008, by Resolution No. 36-2008. Agricultural District Four currently consists of 146 landowners enrolling 17,994.70 acres in the District. The County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board has made a report and recommended that the District be continued with modifications. These modifications entail the addition of multiple landowners with approximately 2,031.62 acres of predominantly viable agricultural land with no requests from landowners to leave the District. A description and map of the District, the reports and recommendations of the County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board may be examined at the Office of the Soil and Water Conservation District Board, 5390 County Road 48, Belmont, New York and the Allegany County Clerk’s Office, 7 Court Street, Belmont, New York, during regular business hours. All parties in interest and citizens will be heard by the County Board of Legislators at said public hearing. Dated: February 27, 2017 Brenda Rigby Riehle, Clerk Allegany County Board of Legislators
