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Planning commission backs tighter rules for data centers, creates separate telecommunications use
Summary
The Denison Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of a city-initiated zoning text amendment to restrict where data centers are allowed, require conditional-use review, and create a new telecommunications-facility category; staff will draft design standards in coming months and hold workshops.
Denison Planning and Zoning Commission members voted to recommend approval of a city-initiated zoning text amendment that would narrow where data centers are allowed and add a new "telecommunications facility" use to the zoning code.
Staff member (planning) introduced the amendment, citing outdated language in the 2009 ordinance and saying the change would remove a by-right allowance for data centers in multiple districts and instead limit the use to light and heavy industrial districts with a conditional-use permit. "This proposed text amendment...does not adequately account for the…
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