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Vadnais Heights adopts temporary moratorium to study data center development
Summary
The City Council unanimously adopted a temporary moratorium and directed the Planning Commission to develop land-use rules for data centers; the record inconsistently cites ordinance numbers in the agenda and adoption motion.
Vadnais Heights City Council on June 16 adopted a temporary moratorium to study data center development and to direct the Planning Commission to draft land-use rules for such facilities.
Planning/Community Development Director Nolan Wall presented the moratorium as a measure to allow the city to study data center development and prepare appropriate land-use regulations; Wall said there were no proposed data centers currently under consideration. Following the presentation, Councilmember Erik Goebel moved and Jerry Moynagh seconded adoption of the ordinance and associated resolution of summary publication. The motion passed 3-0.
The meeting record contains an internal inconsistency about the ordinance number: the agenda item lists "Ordinance No. 801: Data Center Moratorium" while the adoption motion in the minutes references "Ordinance No. 799." The council's action, as recorded, is to adopt the data-center moratorium ordinance and the associated summary publication; which ordinance number is definitive was not clarified at the meeting and would require confirmation in the official codified record or later minutes.
City staff said the moratorium will give the Planning Commission time to draft or recommend land-use rules for data centers. The ordinance was adopted without recorded dissent; Council did not identify any pending data center applications at the meeting.
