Text · page 5 of 13
Town of Hamburg Planning Board Minutes March 18, 2026 REGULAR MEETING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Cynthia Gronachan led the meeting attendees in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. ROLL CALL Present: Chair Gronachan, Member Clark, Member Geraci, Member Ryan, Member Stewart, Member Chmura, and Member Zajac Absent: None Staff: Josh Rogers, Planning Department; Planning Board Attorney Joseph Gogan EDF Power Solutions Inc.- Requesting Site Plan and Special Use Permit Approval of a proposal to construct a 2.5 MW Tier 3 solar project on a 17-acre parcel to be located south of East Pleasant Avenue (SBL #: 182.14-2-4.11) Torry Van Slyke, project developer with EDF, appeared on behalf of the project along with Kelly Sullivan from LaBella Associates. Mr. Van Slyke presented a PowerPoint, where he explained that EDF Power Solutions North America is a low-carbon power generation, storage, and energy management solutions that create value- from origination to operation- to help customers reduce long-term energy costs, increase resiliency and achieve sustainability goals. It started almost 40 years ago and cover the United States, Canada and Mexico employing around 1600 people across the three countries. They are a full-service renewable energy developer that includes wind, solar, hydro, pumped hydro storage, EV charging and energy storage. To date in New York State, they are pushing almost 60MW across 20 projects with most of them being located in Central New York. The project they are looking to start here is being called Eighteen Mile Solar to be located at 3489 Pleasant Avenue. This property is zoned Residential-Agricultural and is 16.9 acres in size and they are looking to lease about 9.25 acres for a term of 25 years (up to 40 years). Mr. Van Slyke presented project details as follows: 5