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Planning commission split after hours of testimony on Giga Land data center; recommendation recorded 4–1
Summary
After a multi‑hour public hearing with dozens of speakers for and against, the Planning Commission recorded a 4–1 vote on a recommendation regarding the multi‑application Giga Land data center proposal (rezoning, comprehensive plan amendment, special exceptions and waivers). Speakers raised questions about comprehensive plan conformity, water supply and quality, building height, visual impacts, power infrastructure and county policy; the commission debated competing motions to forward for approval and to recommend denial.
The Planning Commission finished a lengthy public hearing on the Giga Land proposals — a comprehensive plan amendment, rezoning, special exceptions for data center buildings and utility facilities, and associated waivers — and recorded a divided recommendation (4–1) to send the package to the Board of Supervisors for final action.
Staff framed the application as a request to reclassify roughly 202 acres along Lucky Hill Road for a business‑park/data center campus that would include up to seven buildings totaling about 2,200,000 square feet, building heights up to 80 feet (65 feet to the roof plus a parapet), four electrical substations, a water treatment facility, two new wells and an above‑ground water storage tank. Staff noted the application would move approximately 156 acres within the service district from low‑density residential to…
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