SECTION 17.
Section 23 of said chapter 20, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 49, the words ", may" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- or any landowner of land subject to an agricultural preservation restriction who is subject to and aggrieved by a decision of the department to exercise or assign a right to acquire an interest in land through an option to purchase at fair market agricultural value, a right of first refusal or other similar right for land subject to an agricultural preservation restriction as held by the commonwealth on their land may.