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Resident urges zoning review for data centers, asks commission to ease "middle housing" barriers

Bay City Planning Commission · December 22, 2025
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Summary

During public comment at the Dec. 17 Bay City Planning Commission meeting, resident Paul Kleinau urged commissioners to consider zoning rules for small data centers and to reduce setback and parking barriers that make duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes difficult to build.

A Bay City resident asked the planning commission on Dec. 17 to consider zoning changes that would both guard against inappropriate data-center development and remove barriers to "middle housing" such as duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes.

Paul Kleinau (1713 10th Street) told the commission that while Bay City is unlikely to attract large, campus-style data…

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