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The Data Center Divide

Pere Marquette Charter Township

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

Mixed Data Center Policies

Pere Marquette Charter Township has enacted measures pausing data-center permits, approvals, construction, and installation for one year, with a possible extension by resolution. Existing facilities are not expressly required to stop operating, and the pause is not permanent.

Rating from Michigan statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Pere Marquette Charter Township.

current law · Pere Marquette Charter Township
Prohibits permitting, approving, locating, or building data centers in Pere Marquette Charter Township for one year, with possible extension by township resolution.Pere Marquette Charter Township Ordinance No. 163 (2026)

What this means

The measure pauses permits, approvals, construction, and installation of data centers for one year, making new projects and expansions substantially harder during that period (one-year moratorium on data centers). It does not expressly require existing data centers to stop operating, but the broad pause on approvals and construction makes this a severe temporary restriction.

Timing

Ends
one year after the applicable ordinance's effective date, or earlier upon the Township's implementation of regulations governing data centers

Ordinances No. 162 and No. 163 impose one-year data-center moratoriums. The moratorium may be extended by Township Board resolution; Ordinance No. 163 also provides for a waiver application if an extension causes immediate and irreparable harm. No exact effective date is stated in the sources.

People behind it

  • Initiated the Ordinance No. 163 zoning amendment and introduced, considered, and adopted the data-center moratorium measures.

  • Moved the first reading of Ordinance No. 163 and seconded its adoption; also moved the first reading of Ordinance No. 164.

  • Seconded the first reading and moved the adoption of Ordinance No. 163; moved the adoption of Ordinance No. 164 and moved adoption of Ordinance No. 162.

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  • Moved or seconded proceedings for Ordinance No. 162 and Ordinance No. 164.

  • Seconded the first reading of Ordinance No. 162 and the first reading of Ordinance No. 164.

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  • A one-year moratorium prohibits the permitting, consideration, approval, location, erection, construction, and installation of data centers in Pere Marquette Charter Township.

  • The moratorium also covers like data-center operations, whether or not they are specifically referenced in the Township’s zoning ordinance.

  • The moratorium may be extended by Township Board resolution until data-center regulations are implemented.

  • A waiver is available only during an extension of the moratorium, and only if a landowner proves at a public hearing that the extension would cause immediate and irreparable harm or violate applicable law.

  • The zoning-based moratorium takes effect seven days after publication of the adoption notice, unless referendum procedures are initiated; if initiated, the effective date follows the applicable referendum statute.

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  • If the Township extends the moratorium by resolution, a landowner may apply for a waiver at a public hearing by demonstrating immediate and irreparable harm from the extension; the waiver may be granted only to the extent necessary to avoid that harm. The same waiver process applies if the extension would violate applicable state or federal law. Section 6 waiver provision

Sources

current law · Pere Marquette Charter Township
Pauses permits, approvals, construction, and installation of data centers in Pere Marquette Charter Township for one year, with a possible extension by resolution.Pere Marquette Charter Township Ordinance No. 162 (2026)

What this means

The measure would pause data center permits, approvals, construction, and installation in the township for one year, with possible extension by resolution (one-year moratorium). That is a substantial development barrier during the pause, though it is not a permanent ban.

Timing

Ends
one year after adoption

Ordinance No. 162 establishes a one-year moratorium on data-center permitting and related activities. It may be extended by resolution.

People behind it

  • Moved to accept the second reading and adopt Ordinance No. 162.

  • Seconded the motion to accept the second reading and adopt Ordinance No. 162.

  • Township Clerk responsible for publishing the proposed ordinance and adoption notice.

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  • Ordinance No. 162 imposes a one-year moratorium on permitting, considering, approving, locating, erecting, constructing, or installing any data center facility in Pere Marquette Charter Township. The moratorium may be extended by resolution.

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