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Editor's Note: Former Article II, Planning Commission, was
repealed by Ord. of 8-16-1984.
[Ord. of 6-12-2006; Ord. of 06-24-2019]
There is hereby established a permanent Farmland and Forestry
Preservation Committee. The Committee shall consist of five regular
members and three alternate members, all of whom shall be electors
of the Town appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Town Council,
for terms of four years in accordance with Chapter VII of the Town
Charter. All regular and alternate members shall serve without compensation.
One of the initial regular members and one alternate member shall
serve for one year, and three regular members and one alternate member
shall serve for two years and one regular member shall serve for three
years. Thereafter regular and alternate members shall serve four-year
terms. The Committee shall meet monthly, adopt rules and regulations
for the conduct of its meetings, shall elect a Chair, Vice Chair and
Secretary on an annual basis and may promulgate and adopt bylaws.
[Ord. of 6-12-2006]
The Committee's purpose is to promote the preservation, protection
and maintenance of farmland and forest land and to foster and assist
sustainable agricultural activity.
[Ord. of 6-12-2006]
The Committee shall:
(a)
Identity
and inventory farmland and forest land located within the Town of
New Milford by using available public maps, records, data and other
information as to the location and size of such lands;
(b)
Gather,
update and maintain anecdotal and empirical information from available
state and federal agencies, determine the economic viability and state
of working farms and make proposals and recommendations to the Town
Council and Economic Development Commission on promoting, maintaining
and improving such activity in the Town of New Milford;
(c)
Identify
available state and federal programs and grants and obtain assistance
from state and federal agencies to preserve farm and forest lands.
