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Harmony planners favor new Industrial Technology zone with conditional use permits for data centers
Summary
City planners and elected officials at a joint session agreed in principle to create an Industrial Technology zoning district for data centers and require a conditional use permit for any project meeting the ordinance's data-center definition, allowing project-specific review and added safeguards.
Harmony officials and advisory boards signaled a preference for creating a new Industrial Technology Zone for data centers and attaching a conditional use permit requirement to any project that meets the ordinance definition of a data center. The decision was described as intended to give the city more targeted control than allowing data centers in existing industrial zoning.
Contracted facilitator Katrina Hurley told the group that the process is deliberate and transparent and that recommendations will move through formal Planning & Zoning and City Council procedures; she also noted that "there is no active developer under consideration," meaning the ordinance is being drafted proactively. Meeting participants agreed a conditional use permit would enable project-specific conditions, such as additional setbacks, monitoring, or financial assurance, to be imposed based on scale and risks.
