Council authorizes drafting of zoning amendment to regulate data centers
Summary
Council authorized the borough solicitor, engineer and code enforcement officer to draft an amendment to the Olyphant Borough zoning ordinance to regulate data centers and related equipment, and to submit the draft to county and borough planning agencies for review before a public hearing.
Olyphant Borough Council voted to authorize the Solicitor, Engineer and Code Enforcement Officer to draft an amendment to the borough zoning ordinance to regulate Data Centers, Data Center Accessory Uses and Data Center Equipment. The motion, moved by Krukovitz and seconded by Harrington, also directed staff to submit the draft to county and borough planning agencies for review and to return it to council for a public hearing and proposed adoption; council assented.
The motion instructs staff to complete required public notices and postings as part of the ordinance process. The council did not debate the substance of potential zoning standards at the Sept. 16 meeting; the action was to begin the formal drafting and review process required under municipal land-use procedures.
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.
