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Mesa board tables data-center zoning amendments after industry and developer concerns
Summary
Multiple developers, site selectors and industry groups urged clarification and more stakeholder engagement on a proposed Mesa ordinance regulating data centers; the Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously to table the text amendment to allow time for additional review and stakeholder meetings.
The City of Mesa Planning and Zoning Board on June 11 opened extensive public comment on proposed zoning text amendments that would regulate data centers in Mesa and then voted unanimously to table the ordinance for further stakeholder engagement and clarifications.
Speakers representing developers, data center operators and industry associations urged the board to pause the ordinance’s advancement until language ambiguities, grandfathering of vested projects, operational standards and specific development standards were clarified.
Ben Graff, speaking for Nova Holdings LLC, described his client’s situation where entitlements and a final site plan are in hand but construction has not yet started. Graff said his client had already invested significant sums and asked for clarity on grandfathering and waiver provisions. “Nova has already invested to date $100,000,000 into the purchase of the site and the development,” he said, and asked that the ordinance make explicit that projects with vested rights can continue under the standards in effect when they…
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