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James City County staff presents draft data center policy; board asks for field visits and tighter protections for nearby homes
Summary
County planning staff presented a draft policy to guide siting and mitigation of data center facilities. Supervisors discussed setbacks, water and power impacts, the possibility of community benefits, and asked staff to return with edits and recommended sites and to arrange field visits.
James City County planning staff presented a draft policy intended to guide local review of data center land-use applications, drawing questions from supervisors about setbacks, water and power use and how to protect nearby residential neighborhoods.
The draft policy, prepared after a September 9 zoning change that now requires a special use permit for data centers in the general industrial district, sets out expectations for site-specific conditions, construction management, fiscal impacts, location and design elements, noise, water and electricity consumption and possible adaptive reuse if a data center is later vacated. “Accordingly, staff has drafted a policy that attempts to mitigate expected land use impacts of data…
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