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Gilroy residents press city on AWS data center water use, code and CEQA process
Summary
At a Coffee with the Mayor, officials and residents reviewed a new fact sheet about the Amazon Web Services storage facility planned east of Highway 101, raising questions about water use, timing for recycled-water connections, whether the project is "by-right" under city code, and CEQA funding and oversight.
Officials and residents at Gilroy’s Coffee with the Mayor on Saturday spent more than an hour discussing the Amazon Web Services project proposed on the east side of Highway 101, focusing on water demand, environmental review and whether the development could later house higher-intensity uses.
Mayor Braco and several residents highlighted a city fact sheet that summarizes hundreds of pages of the environmental-impact and water reports. "This synthesizes almost 600 pages of an environmental impact report," said Brit, a resident active in public outreach, praising the condensed summary as a tool to help the community understand technical documents.
City officials said the proposal is currently processed under the city’s zoning code as submitted, and that…
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