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Wagoner County commissioners pause zoning changes, direct staff to draft categories for data centers, mines, wind and solar
Summary
Commissioners debated how to treat new industrial uses including data centers, mines and large wind/solar projects, agreed to table action and extend a temporary moratorium while staff drafts code categories and special-use criteria.
Wagoner County commissioners on Tuesday discussed how the county should treat emerging industrial and energy projects — data centers, mines and large wind and solar developments — and voted to table code changes while staff drafts clearer categories and special-use criteria.
The commissioners said they want rules that give the county “teeth” to protect roads and require notice for conditional-use permits. Casey Sanders, planner and zoning staff, told the board that data centers already have been added into the code under industrial uses but that other uses such as mining remain difficult to categorize and currently are subject to a…
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