Planning director outlines special-use review process for data centers and battery storage
Planning Director Amanda Webb told the Raleigh County Commission the county can use existing Land Development Regulations and the special-use-permit procedure to review data centers and battery energy storage systems, and staff will invite Evergy and state water and health officials to answer detailed technical questions.
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Amanda Webb, Raleigh County planning director, briefed commissioners on how the county's current Land Development Regulations (LDR) and special-use-permit process would be applied to proposed data centers and battery energy storage systems. Webb said staff would first run applications against the code, prepare a staff report for the planning board, and then the planning board would hold a public hearing and make a recommendation to the commission. "So that's the procedure we would recommend using, for data centers and battery storage," Webb said.
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