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Irving council signals support for tighter review of new data centers; staff to mail 6,000 notices
Summary
City staff will return with a draft ordinance requiring conditional use permits for new data centers, and the council directed a public-notice push to roughly 6,000 properties ahead of Planning & Zoning and a council hearing in February.
At a City of Irving work session, council members directed staff to require conditional use permits for newly proposed data centers and to begin a broad public-notification process covering roughly 6,000 property owners, business owners and occupants.
The move formally brings new data-center proposals under a permitting process that would reapply development standards the council adopted in June and let council impose site-specific conditions, periodic reviews and revocation if an approved operation violates conditions. Staff told the council the notices will be mailed to properties zoned for industrial uses, properties along freeways and other locations the city identified as potentially affected. Planning & Zoning will hear the proposal first, followed by council consideration…
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