A moratorium on data-center development is in effect through August 31, 2027, or until adequate regulations are adopted, whichever occurs first; during the moratorium, the City will not accept data-center conditional-use-permit applications.

New data centers generally require a Conditional Use Permit before proceeding, with Planning Commission review, public notice, and a public hearing.

Conditional Use Permit notice must be provided to property owners within 750 feet, with the second notice mailed at least 10 days before the Planning Commission meeting.

Data centers are allowed only in designated Urban and Employment Zones.

Data-center proposals are reviewed case by case through the Conditional Use Permit process.

Data centers must obtain building permits and undergo review by the Planning, Engineering, Building, Health, and Fire Departments.

Construction must pass staged City inspections for grading, foundations, structural framing, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and final completion before proceeding to later phases.

Changes between approved Conditional Use Permit plans and building-permit plans must remain in substantial compliance; changes exceeding the City's commonly used 10% threshold require a Conditional Use Permit amendment and another public review.

A data-center building may have no more than three dock doors.

Loading docks and truck-staging areas must minimize noise and odors and generally may not be placed between a nonresidential building and residential zoning or uses unless screened by another building, a masonry wall at least 10 feet high, or an enhanced 30-foot landscaped buffer; a Conditional Use Permit may modify these requirements.

Nonresidential data centers larger than 30,000 square feet must provide at least one off-street loading area, plus one additional loading area for each additional 30,000 square feet, with each area at least 10 feet wide, 45 feet long, and 14 feet high.

Data centers must provide off-street parking at a minimum rate of one space per 3,300 square feet in Level 1 and Level 2 Parking Districts.

New data-center structures and additions or renovations increasing gross floor area by more than 500 square feet must comply with applicable residential, Urban, or Employment District development standards; covered renovations must achieve closer conformance when full compliance is infeasible.

Projects involving a new commercial, industrial, or civic structure, or otherwise meeting listed post-construction stormwater criteria, must obtain approval of a stormwater-quality plan and a stormwater-treatment-device access and maintenance agreement before the applicable permit is issued.

Stormwater projects must generally provide financial security equal to estimated stormwater-practice construction costs plus 20 percent, record the maintenance agreement, and conduct at least annual inspections and maintenance.

Construction disturbing one acre or more requires specified stormwater documents, including a notice of intent, proof of the Nevada environmental permit or receipt, and a stormwater pollution prevention plan; starting work before required permits or controls are in place doubles the applicable administrative fees.

A traffic impact analysis may be required for projects generating at least 200 peak-hour trips, affecting planned roadways, being phased for more than 10 years, qualifying as regionally significant, or presenting traffic-related concerns.

A traffic entry and access study is required when all uses on the lot collectively generate at least 100 peak-hour trips; it must address access, circulation, safety, and multimodal transportation and be prepared by a Nevada-registered professional engineer.

In applicable Urban or Mixed-Use districts, projects that do not qualify for specified exemptions may require discretionary review or a Conditional Use Permit, including projects involving hazardous or explosive materials, skyways, or certain operating hours.

A proposal including a skyway requires a Conditional Use Permit and City Council hearing; skyways are prohibited in specified locations, and certain skybuilding proposals require additional findings, design documentation, and written consent from owners of at least 75 percent of affected block frontage.

Urban-district data centers must meet pedestrian-oriented sidewalk, streetscape, building-orientation, and primary-street frontage standards, including frontage occupied by building walls or pedestrian amenities of 60 percent in most MD and MU districts, 30 percent in MS and NC districts, and 20 percent in other Urban districts.

Employment-district data centers must conduct loading and unloading entirely on site, may not use public streets for truck parking or staging, must accommodate truck maneuvers without backing from the street, and must provide a separated pedestrian entrance and required facade articulation.

Nonresidential data centers within 300 feet of residential zoning or a mobile-home park are subject to additional grading, building-height, screening, parking, loading, facade, noise, and odor requirements.

Residential-adjacency standards limit noise at residential property lines to 49 dB at night and 65 dB during the day, generally prohibit unreasonable off-site odors, and restrict outdoor garbage or recycling service areas within 25 feet of residential zoning unless no feasible alternative exists and impacts are mitigated.

Loading areas generally may not be within 30 feet of residential districts, and tractor-trailer loading facilities adjacent to residential zoning must be screened by a building or solid wall at least 14 feet high.

Commercial truck and automobile traffic on alleys shared with residential zoning is prohibited from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.

Buildings within 150 feet of specified residential districts or a mobile-home park must provide additional setbacks or height stepbacks; portions within 75 feet are generally limited to 60 feet high, and portions between 75 and 150 feet are generally limited to 100 feet.

Exterior lighting must generally be fully shielded, limit spillover at property lines to 0.5 foot-candle, use color temperatures below 4,000 Kelvin, meet height limits near residential property, and be extinguished outside business hours or between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.; changing the schedule requires minor site-plan review.

Required public, private, and off-site improvements must be approved before final plat approval or building-permit issuance and generally completed before certificates of occupancy; improvement agreements and financial security may be required.

Data-center projects may be subject to Regional Road Impact Fees and Police Facility Impact Fees, with the Police Facility Impact Fee excluded for certain Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority, and tribal lands.

For a data center proposed as a nonresidential use in a single-family residential zoning district, a setback of at least 20 feet is required from every property line adjoining a single-family dwelling use.

The Keystone data-center facility must comply with approved noise limits, including approximately 43 dBA at the property line and 15-foot acoustically absorptive barriers around rooftop chillers; operational noise may be monitored and enforced by Code Enforcement.

Emergency backup generators may operate only during power failures or necessary testing and maintenance, with testing and maintenance limited to daytime hours.

Construction is generally limited to 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturdays, with no Sunday construction; deviations require advance Administrator approval.

Changes to a proposed cooling system during building-permit review require an updated acoustical study and documentation from the Truckee Meadows Water Authority that the change will not significantly increase overall water demand.

Ethylene glycol may not be discharged into the sanitary sewer and must be collected, containerized, and removed by a licensed hazardous-materials disposal company.

Data centers must comply with applicable hazardous-materials, fire, building, environmental, emissions, and emergency-planning requirements for materials and equipment such as batteries, fuel, lubricants, generators, and cooling-system chemicals.

Electrical service and increased power demand require review and approval through NV Energy and the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, while water service, capacity, and increased demand require review and approval by the Truckee Meadows Water Authority.

Data centers are expressly defined and listed as a land-use category, including associated air handlers, generators, cooling and storage facilities, substations, and other utility infrastructure needed for sustained operations.

Data centers may be approved through a conditional use permit in eligible Urban and Employment Zones; the application requires public notice and a hearing.

A conditional use permit may approve a high-level project design while detailed structural, mechanical, electrical, engineering, and architectural documents are deferred to the building-permit stage.

Minor changes between conditional-use approval and building-permit submission are generally allowed; only changes exceeding substantial compliance require a conditional-use amendment and another public hearing, with staff commonly using a 10% threshold as a guide.

Changes in electrical demand or water service do not require a conditional-use amendment because those matters are handled by the applicable utilities and regulators.

Building permits, typical construction activity, and NV Energy utility-service requests do not require public notice under the City's stated requirements.

The Administrator may approve deviations from normal construction hours, with advance notice and a schedule, to accommodate activities such as large concrete pours.

Nevada tax abatements may be available through the Governor's Office of Economic Development, subject to state requirements and approval.

Industrial Commercial and Mixed Employment districts allow buildings up to 500,000 square feet, and major site plan review may approve buildings exceeding that limit.

Data centers have a specified parking requirement of one space per 3,300 square feet in both Level 1 and Level 2 Parking Districts, with no maximum number of parking spaces.

The Administrator may waive post-construction stormwater quality plan requirements for a new commercial or industrial data-center project if specified findings support the waiver, including infeasibility, lack of likely impairment, or equivalent treatment by an adequately sized off-site facility.

New data centers may connect to the City's sanitary sewer system, with required sewer extensions or upgrades, and water systems must provide domestic service and required fire flow.

New electric, communications, and cable facilities serving a data center generally must be installed underground, subject to stated exceptions and possible power-line waivers.

Loading docks and semi-truck staging areas may be screened by another nonresidential building, a masonry wall at least 10 feet high, or an enhanced 30-foot landscaped buffer; the requirements may be modified through applicable review.

Data centers are limited to three dock doors per building, providing a defined loading standard.

Lawfully issued development approvals remain valid when construction began before the Title's effective date and continued without interruption until completion; otherwise, expired permits require compliance with the current Title.

A lawfully established data center that later becomes nonconforming may continue operating, change ownership, tenancy, or management, and undergo routine repair and maintenance if the nonconformity is not increased.

A nonconforming data center may change to a use allowed in its zoning district; expansions may receive Administrator approval in specified urban and employment districts when within the applicable limit, while larger expansions may proceed through a conditional use permit subject to required findings.

An addition or renovation increasing gross floor area by 500 square feet or less is outside the applicable project-specific threshold for the covered development-standards articles.

When applicable standards govern an expansion or renovation but full compliance is infeasible, the Administrator may accept closer conformance instead.

In the Mixed-Use Airport District, development that meets applicable standards may be exempt from discretionary review and proceed through a building-permit application, subject to exceptions for specified uses and other required reviews.

For Reno-Tahoe International Airport properties in the Mixed-Use Airport District, an applicant may use the Mixed-Use Urban District's use permissions if the entire project complies with that district's building and site-design standards.

A cooling-system change may proceed through building-permit review rather than requiring a new conditional-use permit if the applicant updates the acoustical study and provides TMWA documentation that overall water demand will not significantly increase.

The conditional-use approval may authorize emergency backup generators to operate during power failures and for daytime testing or maintenance, subject to the approval's limits.

Propylene-glycol cooling-system material may be discharged into the sanitary sewer in accordance with applicable regulations; ethylene glycol must instead be collected and removed by a licensed hazardous-materials disposal company.

Required public improvements may be completed under an improvement agreement that establishes the improvements, phasing, and security rather than requiring completion before every applicable approval; deadlines may be extended by up to two years with Administrator approval and replacement security.