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Campbell County board adopts emergency ordinance to return data centers to special-use review
Summary
After extended public comment and staff explanation of an advertising omission, the board voted 5–2 to adopt an emergency ordinance immediately requiring special-use permits for data centers; staff said existing vested projects may still proceed under vested-rights law.
Campbell County supervisors voted 5–2 to adopt an emergency ordinance that immediately moves data centers from a by-right industrial use to a special-use-permit requirement. The vote came after a prolonged public comment period in which scores of residents urged the board to restore local oversight of large data-center projects.
Staff attorney Tripp Eisenhower told the board the change was needed because a previously approved motion to reclassify data centers had been omitted from the published advertisement by staff. “Under the code, 15…
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