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Scott County considers siting rules and short moratorium as officials weigh data-center impacts
Summary
Planning staff proposed a framework to add data centers as conditional uses in I-2 zones with performance standards (noise, lighting, utility protections) and recommended environmental reviews and decommissioning plans; the court asked staff to draft moratorium language to allow ordinance development.
Scott County Fiscal Court discussed a proposed framework for a data-center siting ordinance and signaled support for drafting a temporary moratorium on applications while the county develops detailed zoning language.
Holden, presenting on behalf of planning and zoning, told the court the county's current code effectively does not permit data centers without amendment and recommended three primary steps: define "data center," allow the use conditionally in the I-2 heavy industrial zone, and adopt specific performance standards and development-plan requirements.
"If a data center would want to…
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