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Resident tells Troy planning commission consent judgment and developer ties left neighborhoods unprotected

5106866 · May 28, 2025
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A resident urged the commission to adopt protections for long‑standing neighborhoods after saying a data center was pushed through under a consent judgment; commissioners discussed limits of their authority and the role of council and consent agreements.

At the start of the May 27, 2025 meeting of the Troy City Planning Commission, resident Mary Ellen Bargain urged the commission to adopt policies to protect long‑standing neighborhoods from large commercial developments and said she was “deeply concerned and frankly outraged.” Bargain said she learned that an individual she named was connected to Kmart and that that connection made “more sense how the data center was pushed through with such force.”

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