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Committee forwards interim moratorium on data center licensing to County Board after public hearing
Summary
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.
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.
The committee opened a public hearing during which multiple members of the public spoke, including Catherine Parker, Tom Neale, Alexa Megna, Niina Baum, Kathleen Cooper, Nate Gaedtke, Erica Rempala, Carol Warden, Nathan Nuszkiewicz, Gerald Anderson, Richard Martin, Joni Davison, Liane Ware, Marca Donahue, and Merlin Van Buren. After public comment, the committee (motion by Dan Hess, second by Michael Tautges) approved the ordinance amendment as presented and forwarded it to the County Board for final approval, with all members recorded as voting “Aye.”
The record notes the Notice of Public Hearing was published in the Northwoods River News on June 23 and 30, 2026, and posted on the Oneida County Courthouse bulletin board on June 18, 2026. The amendment will proceed to the County Board for final consideration; the committee vote does not by itself change existing licensing rules until the board acts.
