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Public commenter tells council a planning-board data-center zoning proposal should be "dead on arrival"
Summary
A member of the public told Prince George's County Council the planning board advanced a data-center zoning proposal without public input and urged the council to refuse to initiate drafting; the council acknowledged the comment but made no formal decision during the meeting.
During the public-comment period, Dan Smith told the County Council that a planning-board-drafted zoning bill would "permit hyper scale data centers throughout much of the agriculture zones of the county" and urged the council to treat the proposal as "dead on arrival." Smith said the planning board did not brief the council on the measure and that the board approved…
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