Citizen Portal

Get email alerts on the Zoning topic

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Brown County considers zoning changes for data centers and commercial battery storage; commission directs draft resolution

Brown County Board of Commissioners · August 10, 2026

Summary

Bill Vonderschmidt and Annette Hoskins presented draft guidelines for data centers and commercial battery energy storage facilities; the commission agreed to proceed with drafting a resolution to amend county zoning regulations.

Representatives of the Brown County Planning Commission, Bill Vonderschmidt and Annette Hoskins, presented draft guidelines addressing Data Centers and Commercial Battery Energy Storage Facilities. After the presentation, the Board of Commissioners indicated consensus to proceed with drafting a resolution to amend Brown County Zoning Regulations to regulate those uses.

The minutes record the presentation and the commission's direction to staff to prepare a zoning-resolution draft; no ordinance number, text of the draft, or timeline for public hearings was included in the meeting minutes. The action was recorded as a consensus to proceed rather than a formal vote to introduce an ordinance.

AI generated

The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.

AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.

Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.

Source