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Cheektowaga ZBA tables use‑variance for proposed battery storage at Superfund site
Summary
After extensive public questions about safety, fire prevention and site remediation, the Cheektowaga Zoning Board of Appeals voted to table AC Power/Ingersoll Rand’s use‑variance request to install a battery energy storage system at 3695 Broadway pending further information and required town and DEC approvals.
The Cheektowaga Zoning Board of Appeals on Nov. 19 tabled a request from AC Power, on behalf of the property owner Ingersoll Rand, for a use variance to install a battery energy storage system on roughly 1 acre of a remediated Superfund property at 3695 Broadway.
Project counsel Peter Sorgy told the board the company seeks a use variance because the privatized battery storage use is not defined or permitted in the town’s manufacturing/light‑industrial zoning code. Project representatives said the installation would occupy a small footprint — “barely 1 acre” of an approximately 7‑acre site — and that the system would store electricity to…
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