Monteagle planning commission recommends adding data centers as regulated industrial use

Jul 7, 2026

The planning commission voted to recommend to the city council an ordinance that places data centers as a use in industrial districts (with the draft treating them as a use by special exception), while flagging future work to define data centers and study utility impacts.

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The Monteagle Planning Commission on July 7 recommended that the city council adopt an ordinance placing "data centers" in industrial districts as a regulated use and signaled that staff will return with a more detailed, regionally consistent definition.

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