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Town of Hamburg Planning Board Minutes September 2, 2026 • Safety- he feels that the information that has been presented by RIC is only partially true. • If there is a fire, the fallout would be deemed very toxic and dangerous both to the ground soil and homes. • He provided a printout to the Planning Board for their review. Timothy Pike: Questions for the Planning Board: • What is the overall goal of this project? • Does it fit within a larger Town project? • What problems does this project solve for residents? • How does the Planning Board determine these problems? Rick Schmidt: Spoke in opposition to the project. Stated that he feels this is inappropriate for a residential neighborhood and that the Planning Board must reject it. He is worried about the lack of unknown long-term health risks associated with the potential battery fire as well as the decrease in property values throughout the neighborhood. Christine Noonan: With her background in real estate, she wanted to reiterate that property values will decrease whether there is an issue or not. Due to the current housing shortage, the Planning Board should be concerned with the fact that the property values will decrease not only in Lake View but in the surrounding area, as this has been proven in other areas. Miss Noonan had the following questions for the Planning Board: • Why is the monitoring being done remotely? Does that mean no one wants to be there? • Why should residents live around that? • What is the response time? • Will any type of issue have a longer response time because no one is there monitoring? • If no one wants to be on site to monitor the property, why should they live near the site? Kathy Moran: Spoke in support of the project. Ms. Moran is a member of Third Act Upstate New York, which is a grassroots organization advocating rapid clean energy expansion, stronger climate policies and uplift democracy as well as a member of The Climate Reality Project. She provided a handout to the Planning Board for them to review. Energy storage is a smart and reliable technology that helps modernize New York’s electrical grid, helping to make the grid more flexible, efficient and resilient. This 4