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Residents voice sharp concerns about proposed data center near Wheeler schools; planning process, due process explained
Summary
Residents and a school representative asked Porter County leaders to scrutinize a proposed rezoning for a hyperscale data center near Wheeler Middle and High School, citing traffic, noise, emissions, and potential effects on school finances.
Dozens of residents and one school representative used the Redevelopment Commission's public comment period March 25 to press county leaders for scrutiny of a proposed rezoning to allow a data center near Union Township/Wheeler Middle and High School.
John Hunter, representing Union Township Schools, told the commission the district was "concerned about the cons, specifically from a school standpoint" and asked the county to "have the same considerations about why you would want to put a data center that close to a school." He cited traffic, noise, emissions, and the large electricity and water demands of hyperscale data centers as factors the school district wants considered.
County planning executive director Mike Jabo explained the formal process: "It was a landowner who put in a petition to change the zoning of their land... it has to go through a step…
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