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Kootenai County approves 182‑day emergency moratorium on data centers to protect aquifer and review permitting
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners voted to impose a 182‑day emergency moratorium on building permits for data centers so staff can draft a conditional‑use permitting process and study water, utility and environmental impacts; local health and aquifer groups supported the action.
Kootenai County commissioners on Feb. 27 approved a 182‑day emergency moratorium on data centers to halt routine building permits while Community Development drafts a permitting process that would allow the county to condition such facilities.
David Callahan, Director of Community Development, told the Board the moratorium is intended to give staff time to "work up a draft concept of processing these data centers by by a special use or conditional use permit." Callahan said that without such a process, the county must currently treat many data‑center projects as by‑right building permits…
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