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Jackson County planners review revisions to high-density computing facilities ordinance
Summary
Staff presented an August 17, 2026 working draft of a high-density computing facilities (HDCF) ordinance that updates setbacks, viewshed analysis, decommissioning requirements and financial assurances; commissioners deferred major changes pending county-attorney review and a Board of Supervisors moratorium extension.
Staff member Becca opened a work session on the draft high-density computing facilities ordinance and walked commissioners through a list of changes incorporated into the August 17 working draft, including property-line setback and waiver language, non-emergency generator testing and maintenance, viewshed and visual-resource review, decommissioning security fencing, road repair and financial assurances, and applicant acknowledgements.
"What I wanted to do tonight was to first show you what was changed based on our July meeting and then give you a few additional things that I have come across through continued research," Becca said as she introduced the revisions. She summarized the sections where edits were made and said she would continue to update the document as counties and state guidance evolve.
Commissioners agreed to await formal review by the county attorney’s office before making substantive changes. A member noted that the board of supervisors had extended the moratorium on these facilities, giving the commission more time for research and interagency review. "We were going to be in a little bit of a holding pattern with this one anyway," a commissioner said.
The commission discussed leaving the draft’s provisional setback at either 1,000 or 1,320 feet while monitoring what neighboring counties are doing. Members also debated whether to treat HDCF as conditional uses in existing commercial and industrial districts or to create a dedicated zoning district; both approaches were described as having tradeoffs related to utility access, rezoning needs and fairness compared with other heavy industrial uses.
The commission scheduled a continued drafting process: staff will seek county-attorney review, return preliminary drafts for the commission’s revision, and eventually hold a joint work session with the Board of Supervisors before a public hearing and a recommendation to the supervisors. No final regulatory changes were adopted at the session.
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