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Orange County board refers zoning text amendment to remove 'by‑right' status for data centers after wide public concern
Summary
The board voted 5–0 to refer a zoning text amendment that would remove data centers as a by‑right use to the Planning Commission for public hearing and recommendation; public commenters urged quick action, raised water, farmland and transparency worries, and asked for monitoring and decommissioning plans.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to initiate a zoning text amendment to remove data centers as a by‑right use in the county and referred the measure to the Planning Commission for public hearing and recommendation.
The chair described the resolution as a step to align the county’s ordinance with recently established Technology District provisions and said the Planning Commission would hold a public hearing and return a recommendation to the board. A board member urged the commission to take up the matter at its first meeting on Feb. 5 and to “scrub every piece of ordinance” to remove any by‑right allowance for data centers; Supervisor Coleman said the action would help “protect our county from by‑right data center…
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