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LaSalle County committee begins drafting data-center zoning language, weighs moratorium and industrial-only restriction
Summary
Committee members heard a report on data-center zoning, discussed adopting a formal definition and conditions (water and power safeguards), and asked staff to compile municipal and Sangamon County sample language; no ordinance vote was taken.
Don Jensen, who attended a recent statewide meeting on data centers, told the LaSalle County Land Use Committee that counties are still wrestling with where and how to regulate data centers and that Sangamon County’s sample language is being used as a reference. "Lot of discussion on zoning ordinance and where, they think the county should go as far as the data centers," he said.
Brian (county land-use staff) told the committee that in the absence of specific data-center language a petitioner could pursue a tax amendment,…
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