Considering battery storage on your Tarrytown commercial property?

Check the parcel before agreeing to a long reservation

The published route is limited by zoning, highway proximity and residential-building distances. Four acres is the minimum lot size, not an approval by itself. Ask the Village to confirm the actual route before relying on a company’s timetable.

Request the system’s stored energy and power rating with their units. The local definition uses energy capacity above 600 kilowatt-hours. Ask what the batteries would serve and which part of the parcel the company proposes to use.

Find out which decisions remain and who would seek them. Keep that explanation beside the option terms: reservation length, payment, extensions and the circumstances in which either party can end the arrangement.

A highway location does not establish an obtainable utility connection. Ask the team what connection work has actually been done and what could prevent the project from proceeding. An inquiry or early drawing is only a starting point.

Reference: Tarrytown Code: battery overlay/floating zone, section 305-68 · Tarrytown Code: battery system definition

Keep parking and tenant access in the same drawing

The September 2025 approval for 120 White Plains Road concerns part of an office parking lot. Its resolution describes 26 displaced spaces and a review of the remaining parking. Those findings concern that property; they do not settle the needs of another building.

Show the company the spaces your occupants use, accessible parking, loading areas, refuse collection and routes needed by service vehicles. Include busy days and seasonal uses. A rarely occupied corner can still be important to the rest of the site.

Review existing leases before agreeing that an area is available. Do any tenants have assigned spaces, shared access rights or a right to expand? Ask your adviser how those commitments affect the proposed land agreement.

Have the plan show operating equipment, temporary staging, delivery routes and cable work together. Identify what would be unavailable during construction and what would remain unavailable afterward. Compare those effects with the payment being offered.

Reference: Tarrytown Planning Board: September 25, 2025 minutes and conditional battery approval

Agree how deliveries and repairs would work

The White Plains Road resolution describes assessment of a shared culvert for heavy delivery and emergency vehicles, including checks during crossings and after construction. That is a useful question for any proposal using an existing crossing or shared driveway.

Ask the company to identify the delivery route before it asks for construction access. Who evaluates bridges, culverts, turns and overhead clearance? If work is needed, who pays for it and which permissions must be obtained first?

Discuss how closures would be scheduled around your business and tenants. Identify a person you can reach about a blocked entrance or damaged surface, and how urgent problems would be handled.

Put investigation, construction and routine access in understandable terms. Permission to survey should explain what work is allowed. Ask who records the existing condition, repairs damage and restores temporary works if the proposal stops.

Reference: Tarrytown Planning Board: September 25, 2025 minutes and conditional battery approval

Use the approved plan when discussing changes

The White Plains Road approval has conditions and requires other approvals before work starts. It also distinguishes minor field changes from changes needing amended Planning Board approval. A vote and a finished, permitted installation are different stages.

Ask for the dated layout that would be attached to your agreement. Which changes could the company make without coming back to you? Would a larger enclosure, altered road or different connection route need your further consent?

When a revised plan arrives, compare it with the area and rights already agreed. Ask whether the change affects parking, drainage, payment or the land you retain. Keep each approved revision with the project file.

Have the team explain who tracks permit conditions and communicates changes to the owner. Avoid treating an early concept drawing as the final boundary of a decades-long land commitment.

Reference: Tarrytown Planning Board: September 25, 2025 minutes and conditional battery approval

Identify who handles ongoing work and eventual removal

The local code requires removal security and written assumption of obligations when ownership or operation changes. Review those public requirements beside the private agreement, including who owes rent, repairs shared facilities and restores your land.

The White Plains Road conditions assign recurring monitoring, training and reporting work to the applicant or operator. They are conditions for that case. Ask what your own approval requires and who would perform and pay for each task.

Request a clear responsibility list for the owner, developer and operator. Who maintains the entrance and screening, responds to a complaint, keeps contacts current and arranges inspections? If the project changes hands, how will you know whom to call?

Discuss removal of equipment, foundations and private electrical works, and what condition the site must be in afterward. Ask your adviser whether the proposed security and private obligations cover the work you expect, including damage to shared facilities.

Review a proposal that stops before construction as well. What remains on the property, when do payments end and how are recorded rights released? These details matter before you sign an option, not only at the end of an operating project.

Reference: Tarrytown Code: battery overlay/floating zone, section 305-68 · Tarrytown Planning Board: September 25, 2025 minutes and conditional battery approval

Ask about your property

Start with your name, email and phone, then the property location. Westchester County and New York are selected in this form and can be corrected. Acreage and a parcel number are optional.

Tell Sunland whether the property has an occupied building, tenants, a shared entrance or an existing proposal. Mention the area you would consider and the uses you need to keep. You do not need a project plan to start the conversation.

An inquiry does not reserve land, authorize an application or grant entry. Further review needs to establish the actual rights, current review route, connection and commercial fit.