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Hood County court directs updates to development rules after data‑center hearings
Summary
After lengthy public testimony on Project Red and Project Yellow, commissioners directed staff to revise Hood County development-permit regulations and the concept-plan checklist to add conditional items, state-adopted fire guidance and infrastructure-protection disclosures for future reviews.
The Hood County Commissioners Court on March 10 directed the development director to update the county's development permit regulations (Article 4) and the concept-plan checklist, citing repeated gaps identified during public hearings on two proposed data‑center projects. The motion, approved 4‑0, asks staff and county counsel to prepare draft changes that would require concept-plan and site-development submittals to include a set of conditional items flagged during third‑party review, to reflect applicable state‑adopted NFPA/fire‑code guidance, and to…
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