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Supervisors add Phase I environmental review to proposed data-center ordinance
Summary
The board voted to advertise a data-center conditional-use ordinance with an added requirement that applicants submit a Phase I environmental study, enabling the board to move the ordinance forward while ensuring the environmental baseline is evaluated.
Supervisors agreed to advance a conditional-use ordinance for data centers while inserting an environmental safeguard requested by a board member.
The township solicitor noted existing draft language requiring an environmental impact study conducted by an environmental engineer, and the board debated whether a Phase I (site-contamination baseline) should be required before permitting. The solicitor observed the ordinance already requires an environmental impact study "which shall be performed by an environmental engineer suitable of the township," and a supervisor moved to advertise the ordinance with the explicit addition that a Phase I environmental study be required in a form acceptable to the solicitor. The motion passed, clearing the way for public notice of the ordinance with the new Phase I requirement, while board members said they would retain discretion to impose conditions on a case-by-case conditional-use review.
