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Provo creates data-center overlay zone, removes broad permitted status from multiple zones
Summary
The council unanimously approved ordinances removing data centers as a broadly permitted use and creating a new data-center overlay zone that will restrict where data centers may locate and require application-specific reviews, including consultant review for larger facilities.
The Provo City Council adopted two ordinances, passed unanimously 7-0, that (1) remove data centers as allowed uses across many zoning districts and (2) create a new data-center overlay zone (Chapter 14.34A) that would allow data centers only after a targeted rezoning and public hearing. The measures are intended to concentrate potential data-center development in industrial areas and to provide a detailed review path for facilities that can vary substantially in energy, water and infrastructure demands.
City planner Hannah Salts said the change is a 'cleanup' step creating a discrete…
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