Committee forwards interim moratorium on data center licensing to County Board after public hearing
After a public hearing with more than a dozen speakers, the Oneida County Planning & Development Committee approved Ordinance Amendment #02-2026, creating an interim moratorium on data center licensing in Chapter 9, Article 5, Section 9.57, and forwarded the ordinance to the County Board for final action.
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The Oneida County Planning & Development Committee voted unanimously July 8 to approve Ordinance Amendment #02-2026, which would amend Chapter 9, Article 5, Section 9.57 of the Oneida County Zoning and Shoreland Protection Ordinance to impose an interim moratorium on licensing of data centers. Planning staff member Karl Jennrich described the department’s background on recent data center inquiries and the intent of the proposed moratorium language.
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