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Sawyer County adopts preliminary data-center zoning language and discusses one-year moratorium
Summary
The zoning committee adopted an ordinance to limit data centers to Industrial 1 districts with a suggested 160-acre threshold, while several towns and residents urged a moratorium to study water, power and environmental impacts; committee members discussed a separate moratorium resolution to follow.
The Sawyer County Zoning Committee voted to adopt ordinance language that defines and confines data centers to Industrial 1 zone districts and sets an effective threshold intended to make large-scale data centers more difficult to site without rezoning.
Jay (zoning staff) said the changes were intended to close a gap in the code that uses a generic 'communications' conditional-use clause and could otherwise allow a large data center to be proposed under that language in…
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