A judge has invalidated two Suffolk County laws that permitted farmers to build some structures on agricultural land they had previously agreed, for a price, not to develop.
Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Thomas Whelan ruled that 2010 and 2013 county laws providing exceptions for building on lands covered by the county’s purchase of future development rights, or “PDRs,” violate the protections of lands held in public trust contained in state General Municipal Law §51.
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