County to review code on data centers after firm requests county GIS and mapping
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Summary
A company identified in correspondence as 'Pace' asked for county mapping to locate potential sites; the committee asked staff to review existing ordinances and report whether data centers can be regulated under current zoning or need a new special-use framework.
Committee members discussed a request from a company referenced in correspondence as "Pace" asking for digitized county mapping to identify sites suitable for solar, wind, battery storage and data centers. Unidentified Speaker 1 relayed the inquiry and asked staff to check existing county code for protections specific to data centers.
Unidentified Speaker 4 explained that many counties handle data centers either as a permitted use in industrial districts or through special-use rules and suggested the county could adopt size thresholds (for example, allow smaller data centers by right and require special use for larger facilities). Staff said the county’s GIS already provides parcel and zoning overlays and recommended directing the company to the GIS portal or providing targeted parcel lookups instead of wholesale digitization.
Committee members asked staff to prepare options, including examples from other counties and possible ordinance language, and to return with recommendations to the zoning body for consideration.
