The Data Center Divide
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Maple Valley Township
This restriction takes precedence while in effect. The rating below excludes temporary restrictions.
Mixed Data Center Policies
Maple Valley Township has enacted a temporary pause on permits and approvals for data centers in areas under its zoning authority, lasting up to a year or until zoning changes take effect.
Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Maple Valley Township.
current law · Maple Valley TownshipTemporarily prohibits Maple Valley Township from issuing permits, licenses, or approvals for establishing or operating data centers for up to one year, or until data-center zoning rules take effect, with a possible extension.Maple Valley Township Data Center Moratorium (extended)
What this means
The measure would pause permits, licenses, and approvals for data center establishment or use in areas under the Township’s zoning authority (“moratorium upon the issuance of any and all permits, licenses or approvals”). That could substantially delay building or expanding a data center, but the pause is temporary: it lasts up to one year or until zoning amendments take effect, whichever comes first.
Timing
- Ends
- One (1) year following the effective date of the Ordinance, or when Data Center regulatory amendments to the Township’s Zoning Ordinance become effective, whichever occurs first.
The Township may extend the moratorium by resolution before it expires to allow time to complete zoning amendments, and must publish notice of any extension.
People behind it
- Maple Valley Township
Adopted Ordinance No. 38 imposing the moratorium on permits, licenses, and approvals for data centers.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements3
The township imposes a moratorium on issuing any permits, licenses, or approvals for establishing or using data centers on property subject to its zoning ordinance.
The moratorium lasts one year after the ordinance’s effective date or until data-center regulatory amendments to the zoning ordinance become effective, whichever occurs first.
Before the moratorium expires, the township may extend it by resolution to allow additional time to complete zoning amendments; any extension must be publicly noticed.
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