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Salem council stops new NDAs on data-center land use and forms task force
Summary
After a lengthy July 27 meeting about the proposed Mill Creek data center, Council members agreed to stop entering NDAs tied to data centers and to create a task force to draft policy guiding future data-center land-use reviews. No formal project application has been filed.
Salem City Council members agreed at their July 27 meeting to stop entering nondisclosure agreements related to data centers and land-use reviews and to form a task force to draft a council policy for future data-center proposals. Ash of CC Media summarized the action, saying, “they would not be having any more NDAs relating to data centers and land use,” and that the council is “creating a task force to draft a proposal for council policy regarding future data centers.”
Council members made those procedural decisions after hearing extensive public comment but did not decide whether the proposed Mill Creek data center will proceed; Ash reported, “there is no official proposal or application that has been submitted at this point.” The task force was described by the council as the next step toward establishing rules for how data-center proposals will be evaluated; the transcript does not record a motion text, mover/second, or a formal vote tally for these items.
