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The creation of a subdivision law to manage residential developments.
Increased minimum lot sizes.
Adjust supplementary yard regulations.
Appoint an agricultural member of the Planning Board.
Create a town-based purchase development rights program.
Create an advisory town farmland protection committee.
Identify/refine priority farmland list.
Promote agriculture and focus on improving agri-business.
Assist farmers in identifying or developing direct marketing options.
Provide public education on the value of farms.
Provide public education on existing programs/assistance.
Organize/provide farm generation planning/estate planning.
Organize/assist in identifying farm worker pool.
Implement additional or strengthen existing right-to-farm laws.
Lastly, the substantial tax revenue generated by the Project is expected to reduce the tax
burden overall on other agricultural land in the Town of Alabama and Genesee County. In
addition, GCEDC’s development of the Genesee Valley Agri-Business Park is projected to
contribute over $100,000,000 to the local and regional agricultural economy, greatly offsetting
the loss of agricultural use at the Project Site.
Findings
Although development of the Project will result in a loss of agricultural use on the Project Site,
such impacts will be mitigated to the maximum extent practicable by the general phased
development strategy for the Project and implementation of the Land Management Plan as
well as through the completion of the Notice of Intent Process with NYSDAM and
implementation of any related avoidance or mitigation requirements. Moreover, the potential
loss of agricultural lands at the Project Site will be outweighed by the significant economic
benefits provided by the Project.
Potential Cumulative and Growth Inducing Impacts
Certain proposed actions covered under the SEQRA process have the potential to trigger
further development by either attracting a significant local population, inviting commercial
industrial growth, or by inducing the development of similar projects adjacent to the Project
constituting an action. In addition, Section 617.9(b)(5)(iii)(a) of the SEQRA regulations requires
the discussion of cumulative impacts where such impacts are “applicable and significant.”
Cumulative impacts occur when two (2) or more individual environmental effects which, when
taken together, are significant or that compound or increase other environmental effects. The
individual effects may be effects resulting from a single project or from separate projects. In
addition, potential cumulative impacts that may arise from interactions between the impacts of
the Project and the impacts of other projects are addressed in this section. In this regard,
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