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Lebanon council adopts ordinance defining 'data center' as conditional use after developer protests
Summary
The Lebanon City Council on July 1 approved an ordinance to add a definition for “data center” to city code and to make data centers a conditional use in the Light Industrial district, a change councilors said will affect multiple properties including 946 Sullivan Bend Road.
The Lebanon City Council on July 1 approved an ordinance to add a definition for “data center” to city code and to make data centers a conditional use in the Light Industrial district, a change councilors said will affect multiple properties including 946 Sullivan Bend Road.
Developers and the property owner asked the council to defer the change before the vote. John Mark Tarver of Tarver Properties said his team and property owner Ron Buck had worked since January to market the Sullivan Bend site after receiving a written letter from city planning that the use was allowed. Tarver told the council the project would “generate a tremendous amount of tax revenue,” and said, “we have estimated that…
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