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Spotsylvania supervisors direct staff to pursue zoning change making data centers a special-use review
Summary
After months of debate, the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted to send a red-line draft ordinance to the planning commission that would remove data centers as a permitted use in I‑1 and I‑2 districts and subject them to a special-use permit with nonbinding design guidelines.
The Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 13 voted to forward a proposed zoning amendment to the planning commission that would remove data centers from by‑right status in the county's I‑1 and I‑2 industrial districts and require special‑use (SUP) review instead.
County planning staff, led by Kimberly, presented a red‑line draft that strikes the code's current development standards while recommending that staff compile those expectations into a guidance checklist for applicants. "What the proposed draft would accomplish is it would remove data centers as a permitted use in the I‑one and I‑two districts," Kimberly told the board, and it would "add data center as a special use in the I1 and I2 districts." She said the checklist would encourage, but not legally require, practices such as use of Tier‑4 generators…
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