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Cheektowaga board tables proposal for battery storage facility at Superfund site
Summary
Developers seeking a use variance to install a one-acre battery energy storage system at 3695 Broadway faced safety and siting concerns from residents and the board and were asked to provide more information; the board voted to table the request.
Cheektowaga Zoning Board of Appeals members voted Nov. 19 to table a request from AC Power and the property owner, Ingersoll Rand, for a use variance to install a battery energy storage system on a roughly 7-acre brownfield at 3695 Broadway.
Peter Sorgy, a project attorney for the applicant, said the planned installation would occupy about 1 acre of the site and that the company seeks a use variance because the town’s zoning code does not define or permit battery energy storage. "This use is a relatively new use, which is why it's not in your zoning code," Sorgy said, adding that the project team had previously sought and received a similar public-utility use…
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