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Spotsylvania board directs staff to draft tighter rules for data centers amid rapid pipeline
Summary
After a lengthy briefing on water, power and land-use risks, the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted 6–1 to ask staff to draft zoning and performance standards — including setbacks, buffers and potential special-use permitting — to limit by-right data center development outside the primary development boundary.
Spotsylvania County supervisors voted to ask planning staff to prepare specific development standards for data centers after a detailed staff briefing on the projects already approved and those under review.
Planning Director Kimberly and utilities staff described an existing pipeline of confirmed and potential data center projects that together could total more than 10 million square feet on roughly 1,000 acres, plus an additional pool of by-right industrial land estimated at about 2,000 acres. Staff said approved rezonings have typically included proffers such as enhanced setbacks, buffers, noise studies and water-reuse commitments, but…
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