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Buchanan County places eight-month moratorium on data-storage facilities
Summary
Supervisors approved an eight-month moratorium on data-storage centers to allow zoning officials to draft regulations; the board clarified wording to add 'ordinance' to the resolution text.
Buchanan County supervisors on Dec. 22 adopted an eight-month moratorium on development and permitting for commercial data-storage facilities while the planning and zoning commission develops ordinance language.
The resolution was read aloud and board members corrected the drafting language to explicitly reference a data-storage facilities ordinance. One supervisor asked why the moratorium length differed from an earlier data-mining measure; the county attorney's office representative said the resolutions were tailored to allow the zoning commission an appropriate interval for review.
Board members emphasized the moratorium targets commercial storage facilities and noted the county will retain the right to end the moratorium early if a satisfactory ordinance is completed. The board did not record a roll-call tally in the presented transcript. "I believe so. But that's what they're looking for," a member said while the board clarified insertion of the word "ordinance" into paragraph two of the resolution.
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