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City staff proposes requiring conditional‑use permits for data centers; commissioners press for clearer notice and review timing
Summary
Staff recommended repealing the current data‑center ordinance and re‑adopting it with the same standards but changing the permission mechanism so data centers in specified districts would be allowed only through a conditional‑use permit (CUP); commissioners asked for more public notice time and maintained the 300‑foot resident distance standard.
City planning staff brought forward proposed Unified Development Code amendments that would convert data centers from an allowable use in certain districts to a use permitted only by conditional‑use permit (CUP), while retaining the substantive development standards adopted previously.
Staff told the commission the change would not alter the technical development standards (height, setbacks, parking, supplemental standards) but would move the use into a discretionary CUP process in commercial warehouse, light industrial and commercial park districts and any district with an SP‑1 or SP‑2 specifically allowing…
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