TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
NOTICE OF ADOPTION
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Town Board of the Town of Riverhead adopted a local law to amend Chapter 301, Part 3 Supplementary Regulations, of the Riverhead Town Code to include Article LIID “Battery Energy Storage Systems” at its regular meeting held on April 4, 2023.
The purpose of the amendment is to advance and protect the public health, safety, welfare, and quality of life of The Town of Riverhead by creating regulations for the installation and use of battery energy storage systems, with the following objectives: to provide a regulatory scheme for the designation of properties suitable for the location, construction and operation of battery energy storage systems; to ensure compatible land uses in the vicinity of the areas affected by battery energy storage systems and to mitigate the impacts of battery energy storage systems on environmental resources such as important agricultural lands, forests, wildlife and other protected resources.
A copy of the entire text of the adopted local law may be reviewed at the Office of the Town Clerk, 200 Howell Avenue, Riverhead, New York 11901, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday and can be accessed on the Town of Riverhead website at: www.townofriverheadny.gov under the Agenda and Minutes for the December 20, 2022 Town Board Meeting.
Dated: Riverhead, New York
April 4, 2023
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD
OF THE TOWN OF RIVERHEAD
DIANE M. WILHELM, Town Clerk