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Committee adopts narrower approach to data-center zoning, raises floor-space threshold and defers local rules to municipalities
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee · January 21, 2026
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Summary
Committee offered a compromise amendment to a data-centers bill: it raised the server-floor-space threshold to 25% and limited permissive locations to commercial and industrial zones while leaving detailed standards to local zoning.
During the committee's final business, members debated and accepted a committee amendment that rewrote the proposed data-center zoning bill. The amendment raised the threshold defining a data center from 10% to 25% of gross floor area and specified that data centers would be allowed in commercial and industrial zones but not in…
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