The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures and the
permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations while maintaining
public health and safety and preventing specific adverse impacts in
the installation and use of such charging stations.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION or CHARGING STATION
Any level of electric vehicle supply equipment station that
is designed and built in compliance with the latest approved version
of the National Electrical Code and delivers electricity from a source
outside an electric vehicle into a plug-in electric vehicle.
SPECIFIC, ADVERSE IMPACT
A significant, quantifiable, direct, and unavoidable impact,
based on objective, identified, and written public health or safety
standards, policies, or conditions as they existed on the date the
application was deemed complete.
The Building Official shall implement a uniform permitting process
for electric vehicle charging stations and shall adopt a checklist
of all requirements with which electric vehicle charging stations
shall comply with in order to be eligible for application review and
approval. The permitting process and checklist shall include the recommendations
contained in the most current version of the "Electric Vehicle Charging
Permitting Guidebook" as published by the New York State Energy Research
and Development Agency (NYSERDA) as may be adopted or amended from
time to time.
All applications for new construction shall be required to comply
with the provisions of this chapter, and all applications for site
plan approval shall incorporate and provide for the installation of
electrical vehicle charging stations in such number and at such locations
as ay be approved by the Town of Ogden Planning Board. No such electrical
vehicle charging stations shall be located in a required parking spot,
shall be handicapped accessible and shall be adequately protected
from damage.