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Residents press Farmington council on proposed industrial project, email-use ethics and zoning concerns
Summary
Multiple residents used the meeting's public-comment period to oppose a proposed "technology park"/hyperscale data center and to press the city on alleged misuse of private emails and the status of ethics complaints; the council did not take action on the project at the meeting.
Several Farmington residents used the city council's public-comment period Monday to urge the council to halt a proposed industrial development that speakers described as a "technology park" or hyperscale data center, and to demand clarity about ethics complaints they say the city dismissed after staff reviewed them.
"Everybody who spoke at every other meeting spoke against this project," Gary Johnson said, urging the mayor to acknowledge that opposition included Farmington residents as well as Castle Rock Township residents. Nancy Arstead, who told the council she had filed ethics complaints, said in public comment that the city administrator told her the complaints were "unsubstantiated and dismissed." Arstead said she…
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