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The Data Center Divide

Town of Morris

This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.

Pro-Data Center Policies

Morris has adopted a temporary 24-month pause on applications for covered data-center projects, delaying new proposals. It does not itself ban existing operations.

Rating from Connecticut statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Town of Morris.

current law · Town of Morris
Imposes the adopted two-year data-center application pause; the separately proposed permanent prohibition remains a distinct measure.Morris Planning and Zoning Commission moratorium on data centers (2026)

What this means

The adopted 24-month application pause creates a substantial delay for new covered data-center projects. It is temporary, distinct from the proposed permanent prohibition, and does not itself establish a ban on existing operations.

Timing

Ends
Jun 10, 2028

The official September 16 packet, page 2, records an adopted moratorium effective June 10, 2026 for 24 months. The earlier March 12-month draft is superseded as to duration. The separate proposed permanent prohibition has not been verified as enacted.

People behind it

  • Prepared the battery energy storage systems and data centers moratorium and the proposed zoning text amendment prohibiting those uses. Prepared by Janell Mullen

  • Moved that the zoning regulations be changed so data centers and battery storage facilities would not be permitted uses; the motion passed. made a motion

  • Adopted the moratorium and requested regulatory language to prohibit battery energy storage systems and data centers throughout town. adopted by the Town of Morris Planning and Zoning Commission

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  • During the adopted moratorium, Morris does not accept or approve covered data-center applications while it studies land-use, infrastructure, environmental, and safety impacts and develops permanent regulations. The adopted duration is 24 months from June 10, 2026.

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  • The earlier detailed moratorium text excludes small server rooms clearly incidental to a permitted principal use and applications with all required zoning approvals before the effective date; the later official packet confirms the adopted duration but does not reproduce the complete adopted exemptions.

Sources

pending · Town of Morris
Proposes a permanent townwide prohibition distinct from the adopted two-year moratorium; final adoption of the permanent prohibition remains unverified.Morris proposed zoning text amendment prohibiting primary-use data centers (2026)

What this means

If adopted, the proposal would prohibit covered primary-use data centers in all town zoning districts, with an incidental-server-room exclusion. Its adoption remains unverified; this score describes proposed effect, not an operative permanent ban.

People behind it

  • Town Planner who prepared the moratorium and proposed prohibition language.

  • Municipal body that adopted the moratorium, considered the prohibition, and administers the zoning measure.

  • Planning and Zoning Commission member who introduced the motion to prohibit data centers and battery storage facilities as permitted uses.

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  • Planning and Zoning Commission member who seconded the motion to prohibit data centers and battery storage facilities as permitted uses.

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  • If adopted, the proposed text would specifically prohibit primary-use data centers in every zoning district, including associated facilities within its definition.

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  • The proposed data-center definition excludes small server rooms or equipment clearly incidental and accessory to another permitted principal use.

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