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Columbia Planning Commission recommends zoning changes to add data centers, dispensaries and limit package-delivery hubs
Summary
The commission voted April 15 to forward a package of zoning amendments to borough council, including a data-center definition, permitting marijuana dispensaries in certain industrial zones, adding tattoo/body-piercing and smoke/vape-shop uses, and creating a new capped category for package-delivery distribution centers.
The Columbia Planning Commission voted April 15 to recommend that borough council consider a set of zoning ordinance amendments that would add a data-center definition, allow marijuana dispensaries in certain industrial zones, add tattoo and body-piercing as a permitted use in highway commercial, expand the borough's adult-use category to include smoke and vape shops, and create a separate category for package-delivery distribution centers capped at 50,000 square feet.
The changes would amend the table of permitted uses and related definitions in the borough zoning ordinance. Commission members said the package is intended to clarify how new logistics and technology uses are treated in light business, light industrial and general industrial districts and to add definitions drawn from previous ordinances for other uses.
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