2025.01.15 Columbia County Planning Commission Meeting

Columbia County Planning Commission · January 16, 2026

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Opening, invocation, pledge

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Chair calls the meeting to order and confirms date (01/15/2026); Russell Wilder led an invocation and Jamie Lester led the pledge of allegiance. Chair notes quorum is present and opens the meeting.

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The Columbia County Planning Commission met Jan. 15, 2026, and recommended approval of multiple rezoning requests to create large data-center campuses (including Pumpkin Center, Byrd/Bird Farms and a Green Jacket/Watt Oak expansion) after extensive public comment opposing noise, water use, traffic and environmental impacts. The commission also approved several routine variances, a temporary use authorization and business licenses; those items were uncontroversial and passed unanimously.

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