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Council reviews draft data-center ordinance; staff adds planning commission site-plan and conditional-use review
Summary
City staff reviewed a draft ordinance that would require conditional use permits and planning-commission site-plan and architectural review for data centers in industrial districts; council members asked for safeguards on utility verification and expressed concern about potential rate impacts.
City staff reviewed a draft data-center ordinance and outlined new review requirements during the Common Council meeting in Wisconsin Rapids.
Kyle Kearns, a city staff member, told the council the draft ordinance “essentially clarifies that site plan review also has to happen at the plan commission level, for a data center, in addition to the conditional use permit.” He said the draft mirrors practices in other communities but places the city “in the middle” between permissive and highly restrictive approaches.
Kearns also described a verification requirement related to power supply: “If you reference supplemental…
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