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to be cooperation across municipal lines to successfully implement either
Purchase of Development Rights or Transfer of Development Rights
programs. This holds true if there were ever a desire to institute urban
growth boundaries, that Memorandums of Understanding would encourage
property­by­property conservation easements.
As the governmental entity encompassing these municipalities, the
County should work to commit 50% or more of the county’s municipalities
agree to a set of collective goals centered on agricultural preservation.
III. Erie County Legislature
14. Create a County Food Policy Council (High Priority)
Currently, no such entity exists within Erie County and there is an
urgent need to begin soliciting stakeholders to help craft and implement this
initiative immediately. The County, under the direction of the Department
of Environment and Planning, should strive to pass a resolution creating the
Food Policy Council by December 2012, with the intent of researching and
creating policy in early 2013.
The Erie County Legislature should, by resolution, create the Erie
County Food Policy Council, since there is currently no assembly in Erie
County that represents and addresses concerns unique to the entire countywide
food system. The role of this body would be to set objectives and policies
for the county’s food system, to monitor land use, to hold regular public
meetings, to make assessments of the current state of the local food system,
and form recommendations for solving problems that arise. The Council
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sound food system choices.
Food Policy Councils vary in size, generally between 8 and 15
representatives. A suggested list of potential representatives of the Erie
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