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Resident urges transparency on proposed data center rezoning, warns of infrastructure impacts
Summary
A local resident raised alarm during public comment about a proposed rezoning and possible large data center, citing potential power, water and property-value impacts and asking the county not to sign NDAs with developers.
Greg Burns, a resident of West Macintosh Road, used the citizen-comment period to urge Spalding County commissioners to be transparent about a planned rezoning that he said could allow a large data center.
"It was with great disappointment that I read an article last week about plans for a 2,500,000 square foot data center," Burns said during the meeting. "As I talked to people, it's news to everyone. Nobody knows about this." He said a planning commission agenda item to rezone AR-1 on High Falls Road to C-1 appears to…
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