Vice Chair Broeker urges research on data center ordinance; board holds Floodplain Development Ordinance work session

Mar 17, 2026

During public input at the March 17 meeting Vice Chair Tom Broeker asked the board to research data centers and consider whether an ordinance is appropriate. After the formal meeting the board held a work session with Assistant Land Use Administrator Jarred Lassiter on the Floodplain Development Ordinance; no formal action was recorded.

The full story

Vice Chair Tom Broeker used the public‑input portion of the Des Moines County Board of Supervisors’ March 17 meeting to ask the board to research data centers and consider whether the county should pursue an ordinance regulating them.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in