Doc 21-B - Planning Director, Jacki Byerley, requests a hearing for the following Zoning Amendment – Battery Energy Storage Systems Ordinance: re: Amend Chapter 255 Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map – Battery Energy Storage Systems Overlay District (BESS)– by inserting a new section 7.9 Battery Energy Storage Systems, amending section 3.1.3 Table of Use and Parking regulations by allowing a Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 BESS and amending the Zoning Map to include the BESS Overlay District. The overlay district will be creating regulations for the installation and use of free-standing battery energy storage systems (“BESS”), adding to the table the overlay district with the allowed Tiers and updating the zoning map to include the BESS Overlay District, or take any other action related to
Continued from July 14, 2026
- Document # 21-B, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Email from Vice President John A. Michitson, July 9, 2026, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Letter from Lisa L. Mead, City Solicitor, March 16, 2026, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Ordinance, with the Chapter 255 order to advertise it, PDF, sixteen pages, opens in a new tab
- Ordinance again, with the Chapter 116 order to publish it in a municipal bulletin, PDF, sixteen pages, opens in a new tab
- Memo from Jacki Byerley, Planning Director, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Memo from Lisa L. Mead, City Solicitor, PDF, three pages, opens in a new tab
- Review of proposed BESS areas, to the Planning & Development Committee, August 19, 2026, PDF, five pages, opens in a new tab
- Department comments, PDF, six pages, opens in a new tab
- Proposed BESS Overlay maps – Groveland Rd, Amesbury Rd, Computer Dr, Hilldale Ave, Neck Rd, Cross Rd, PDF, six pages, opens in a new tab