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 August 25, 2026
- Document # 21-B, with the record of continuances, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Letter from Atty. Lisa Mead, City Solicitor, March 16, 2026, transmitting a revised BESS Zoning Ordinance, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab
- Proposed ordinance, §7.9 Battery Energy Storage Systems, PDF, fourteen pages, opens in a new tab
- Email from Joe Walsh, 26 Dawn Circle, opposing expansion of the BESS overlay into the Hilldale Avenue corridor, August 26, 2026, PDF, one page, opens in a new tab