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Mount Orab council pauses third reading, debates rescinding emergency zoning ordinance amid data-center concerns
Summary
Councilors discussed two temporary 180‑day moratoriums on permits for data centers and small modular reactors and whether to rescind an emergency zoning ordinance passed in December 2024, citing missing planning‑commission minutes and possible procedural defects; residents urged transparency about NDAs, jobs and environmental impacts.
Mount Orab — Councilors opened a lengthy debate over zoning after members introduced two temporary 180‑day moratorium ordinances aimed at halting the approval and processing of permits for data centers and small modular nuclear reactors.
A council member who led the discussion (Speaker 2) said they would not advance a third reading of the new zoning text because the change should begin with the planning commission. The member said the council instead would bring forward an ordinance to rescind and repeal an earlier emergency zoning ordinance — listed in meeting remarks as “13 09,” adopted 12/03/2020 — and revert the village to the prior code while restarting the process with public hearings and planning‑commission review.
“I can honestly say that this is unlawful. It is improper,” Speaker 2 said, arguing the ordinance had been adopted without the three required readings or documented reasons for an emergency finding and that…
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