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Spotsylvania supervisors split over proposed 1,000‑foot data‑center buffer; public pushes for smaller setbacks or case‑by‑case reviews
Summary
Public speakers representing landowners and residents clashed over a proposed 1,000‑foot buffer for data centers. Developers say it would make some industrial sites undevelopable; other residents and at least one supervisor favor larger buffers to protect neighborhoods. The board asked staff to pursue a joint work session with the Planning Commission rather than immediately adopt ordinance changes.
The Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors spent a large portion of its meeting debating draft design standards for data‑center development, focusing on a proposed 1,000‑foot buffer between data center structures and residences, schools, churches and parks.
Developer representatives and long‑time landowners told the board the 1,000‑foot requirement would make important industrial parcels effectively unusable. Kyle Crosby, vice president of land at Keller and owner of the Crossroads Technology Campus, said his company has invested more than $50 million in site engineering and power infrastructure and that the draft buffer would reduce the project’s developable area to roughly 8 percent. He asked the board to delay advertising the draft standards and form a working group with property owners and industry…
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