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Lebanon planning staff outline broad zoning rewrite, recommend rules for data centers, sidewalks and billboards
Summary
City planning staff presented a draft rewrite of Lebanonzoning code that would expand open-space and tree-preservation requirements to commercial and industrial districts, define and restrict data centers by size and district, clarify sidewalk payment rules and address a potential unintended expansion of billboard allowances.
Planning staff told the Lebanon Planning Commission on an ordinance-review hearing that the city is moving to update its zoning code to reflect changes such as growing interest in data centers, new development patterns and unresolved gaps in existing rules.
"The computer and data processing would be less than 5 acres, and the data centers would be more than 5 acres," planning staff said, explaining a proposed size-based distinction between smaller data-processing uses and larger data centers. Staff recommended treating data centers as a conditional use in light industrial zoning and giving the commission a choice to also allow them in a transportation/warehousing district.
The change comes after staff said the older code did not differentiate between small server…
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