Data Center Zoning Text Amendment

At a glance

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What: Zoning Docket 36-26, a citywide text amendment defining data centers and related uses, creating size categories, allowing small and medium data centers as conditional uses in certain districts, prohibiting large (hyperscale) data centers citywide, and adding use standards such as buffers, utility pre-reviews and annual compliance reports.
Where it stands: staff recommended approval with modifications, including no by-right approval and a utility and infrastructure study before the rules take effect. At the October 13 hearing the commission first rejected a modified-approval motion 4-3, then voted 5-2 to recommend denial with recommendations and an extension of the interim zoning district. The City Council acts next.

2026-10-13 - 2026-10-13 - City Planning Commission: Heard the text amendment; the commission rejected modified approval 4-3, then voted 5-2 to recommend denial with recommendations and extension of the interim zoning district.