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GoldMine business park and Technology Overlay targets AI, data centers and advanced manufacturing

Fairfield Planning Commission · July 16, 2026
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Summary

The draft GoldMine Business Park/Technology Overlay is written to accommodate data centers, AI and advanced manufacturing with campus-oriented design, 50-foot building height limits, screened service areas, and encouraged renewable energy and EV infrastructure.

The GoldMine draft establishes a Business Park/Industrial (BP-I) zone with a Technology Overlay intended to host advanced manufacturing, research and development, AI and data centers, aerospace and clean energy operations. The BP-I standards set a maximum building height of 50 feet, require screened loading docks and truck courts oriented to sides or rears of buildings, and call for building façades broken by material changes, recesses and glazing to reduce long uninterrupted walls.

The plan explicitly lists AI & Data Centers, Technology Campuses and Advanced Manufacturing among permitted uses and encourages renewable energy integration (solar-ready roofs), fiber-optic infrastructure, battery energy storage systems and EV charging. Noise limits and operations standards are specified to limit impacts on adjacent residential areas, with daytime boundaries of 60 dBA adjacent to residences and 79 dBA elsewhere, and lower nighttime thresholds.