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Marion County planning panel recommends asking commission to extend moratorium while comprehensive plan is updated
Summary
At a Marion County Planning and Zoning work session, staff presented research on regional data-center activity and commissioners agreed to ask the county commission to consider extending moratoria and updating the comprehensive plan to guide future data-center permitting and zoning.
Marion County planning and zoning commissioners spent a work-session hour on May 12 reviewing staff research on data centers and agreed to ask the full county commission to consider extending existing moratoria while the county updates its comprehensive plan.
Planning staff circulated a memo summarizing data-center activity in Kansas and neighboring counties and noted Kansas currently shows 19 data centers in staff research. Commissioners raised recurring local concerns — chiefly power demand and potential rate impacts, water use for cooling, noise and aesthetics, road and fiber infrastructure, and the scale of facilities proposed — and discussed regulatory options ranging from targeted permit conditions to formal prohibition.
‘‘No surprises — everybody’s in the same boat,’’ said…
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