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Commission approves conditional use permit for Lumen data center site, waives loading‑dock screening requirement

5785686 · September 18, 2025
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Summary

The planning commission granted a conditional use permit for a 6,000‑square‑foot Lumen facility that has operated on the site since 1999, modifying code screening requirements; staff required an ADA parking space and commissioners added a modification to loading‑dock screening.

The Reno City Planning Commission on Sept. 17 approved a conditional use permit for a Lumen Technologies facility (case LDC26‑00009) near the Keystone area, subject to staff conditions and with a modification to the code requirement for loading‑dock screening.

City staff associate planner Leah Piccati told commissioners the site is about 0.28 acres with an existing 6,000‑square‑foot building that has operated as a telecommunications facility since 1999. Piccati said business licensing recently audited the site and that a required business license had lapsed under the city’s updated data‑center rules; the lapse required the property to seek a conditional use permit rather than be treated as a legal nonconforming use.

Piccati said the site meets…

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