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Board agrees to review data center performance standards, asks planning commission to re-examine buffers and other rules
Summary
Following growing concern from residents and supervisors, the Board of Supervisors directed staff and the planning commission to re-examine county performance standards for data centers, including buffers, noise and water use, and agreed that the item will be brought forward on the regular agenda for more public review.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors on May 6 directed staff to ask the Planning Commission to re-examine the county's data center performance standards, including buffer distances, noise and water provisions, after supervisors and several members of the public urged tighter rules.
Supervisor Meg Baumke told the board that the Planning Commission had identified four specific areas needing review and asked the Board to send the code back to the commission for further study. "I would like to... go back to the drawing board, bring an item back to the Board of Supervisors, and send it down to the Planning Commission to allow them to relook at our…
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