Board sets compressed timeline for data-center ordinance and moves noise rules to general code
Summary
Staff proposed pulling data-center noise provisions into the township’s general noise ordinance and presented a compressed timeline: planning commission review the week of Sept. 28, board review Oct. 7 and a public hearing targeted for Dec. 2 to meet statutory timelines.
Staff presented a draft ordinance adding conditional-use standards for data centers and recommended extracting the data-center noise provisions from that ordinance and placing them in the township’s general noise ordinance (chapter 181). Doing so would allow consistent enforcement of low-frequency noise, vibration standards and dBA/DBC metrics across uses in the industrial district while preserving data-center-specific requirements — such as pre- and post-construction noise studies and monitoring — in the conditional-use standards.
Staff outlined a compressed schedule tied to statutory timelines: a staff draft to the planning commission the week of Sept. 28, planning-commission review on Sept. 28, board review on Oct. 7 and a public hearing on Dec. 2 (advertisements in November). Commissioners emphasized the compressed time frame and urged careful coordination with the planning commission and possible engagement with acoustic experts.
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