At their Regular monthly Town Board meeting, the Town Board of the Town of Batavia approved a resolution to introduce Local Law No. 3 of 2026, entitled “Battery Storage Systems”., which will amend portions of Local Law No. 1 entitled “A Local Law to enact a Battery Energy Storage Systems Law” which was enacted on January 15th, 2026
Local Law No. 3 will prohibit larger scale battery storage systems that have a capacity greater than 600 kilowatt- hours.
The proposed law will be presented at a Public Hearing which will be held August 19th, 2026, at 7:00p.m. at Batavia Town Court, 4120 West Main Street Road before the Regular Monthly Town Board Meeting.
The Town will close on the property in front of the town hall this Friday, July 17th, 2026. On March 18th, the town board approved a purchase and sale agreement of $1,350,000 for 5.4-acre plot of land located between 3817-3827 West Main Street Road. The land formerly housed Hodgins Engraving, which has now moved to East Main Street Road after a large fire caused the building on Rt. 5 to be demolished.
The Town of Batavia plans to relocate their current fuel farm facilities, add additional storage for public works and create secondary access for DPW and Town Hall on Rt. 5.
At Wednesday’s meeting, the board amended the 2026 budget to add an appropriation line item- purchase of land/right of way-equipment and Capital Outlay and increased this line item by an amount not to exceed $1,368,000. The appropriations will be funded through the use of the General Fund’s unappropriated fund balance.