Section 324-A. Municipal agricultural and farmland protection plans

1.
  Municipalities may develop agricultural and farmland  protection  plans,
  in  cooperation  with  cooperative  extension  and  other organizations,
  including local farmers. These plans shall include, but not  be  limited
  to:
    (a) the location of any land or areas proposed to be protected;
    (b)  an  analysis  of  the  following factors concerning any areas and
  lands proposed to be protected:
    (i) value to the agricultural economy of the municipality;
    (ii) open space value;
    (iii) consequences of possible conversion; and
    (iv) level of conversion pressure on the lands or areas proposed to be
  protected; and
    (c) a description of activities, programs and strategies  intended  to
  be used by the municipality to promote continued agricultural use, which
  may  include  but  not  be  limited  to  revisions to the municipality's
  comprehensive plan pursuant to  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  two  of
  section  two  hundred  seventy-two-a  of  the  town  law  and  land  use
  regulations as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision  two  of  section
  two hundred seventy-two-a of the town law as appropriate.
    2.  The  municipality  shall  conduct  at least one public hearing for
  public input regarding such agricultural and farmland  protection  plan,
  and  shall thereafter submit such plan to the municipal legislative body
  and the county agricultural farmland protection board for approval.
    3. The municipal agricultural and farmland  protection  plan  must  be
  submitted by the municipality to the commissioner for approval.