Commission directs staff to clarify or remove data‑center language from code
After county commission concerns, planning commissioners asked staff to draft definitions to distinguish ordinary business servers from large data centers and to update zoning language so large server farms are not a permitted use in town‑center/commercial zones.
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Commissioners raised concerns that the current code lists 'data processing services' as a permitted use in some commercial and town‑center zones and that, as written, that language might allow large data centers or server farms in inappropriate locations. One member said the code appeared written before modern data centers were a common local use; others worried about unintended permitting of large facilities in town centers.
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