The Board, in coordination with the Department, shall conduct any necessary studies to delimit, classify and qualify the lands in each municipality to be included in the Special Corridor Zoning to delimit, classify and qualify as special zoning the agricultural reserves in each municipality, in order to reserve and destine them for agricultural, agricultural and livestock, or agro-industrial production. The resolution shall include not less than sixty-five thousand (65,000) cuerdas that already have been identified as high agricultural productivity and potential in the studies of the Department of Agriculture, including lands that currently have access to irrigation, as well as those that may have such access in the future and that are identified with agricultural productivity or potential. Likewise, such lands adjoining those identified shall serve as buffer zones, which shall not be accounted for as agricultural-use lands, although they shall be incorporated in the Special Zoning. The Board shall fulfill this function regardless of the work conducted by the Land-Use Plan Office, established pursuant to the provisions of §§ 227 et seq. of Title 23, although it may share information, in a collaborative manner, aimed at meeting the objectives set forth for the creation of the Corridor. Such resolution must be promulgated not later than one (1) year after the approval of this act.
History —Aug. 9, 2008, No. 242, § 3.