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Bradley County moves to add data-center and crypto-mining rules to zoning; commissioners debate acreage, noise and school proximity
Summary
Commissioners voted to place on the next voting agenda a zoning amendment that would define data centers and cryptocurrency mining and allow them in I-1 industrial zones; the planning commission approved the text unanimously, but commissioners and public commenters raised concerns about acreage minimums, noise limits and proximity to schools.
Commissioner Rogers presented a resolution to amend the Bradley County zoning resolution to add definitions and regulations for data centers and cryptocurrency mining and to permit those uses in the I-1 General Industrial District. The change was recommended unanimously by the Bradley County Planning Commission and the commission asked that it be placed on next week’s voting session.
Key provisions in the draft ordinance include a minimum site-size requirement (the packet showed 5 acres as the baseline), a prohibition on containerized or temporary…
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