The Data Center Divide
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Montville Township
Neutral Data Center Policies
Montville Township authorized its Planning Board to review data centers, but the resolution creates no new building or operating requirements or project delays. It could inform future regulations.
current law · Township of MontvilleAuthorizes the Montville Township Planning Board to conduct an emerging-issues reexamination of the Municipal Master Plan under the Municipal Land Use Law, responding to recent case-law developments and concerns about large-scale data centers and other emerging issues; the resolution appears in the September 22, 2026 meeting minutes.Montville Township Resolution 2026-350 (2026)
What this means
This resolution authorizes a Planning Board review of data centers; it does not itself add rules or stop projects (“undertake an emerging issues Master Plan reexamination”). The review could inform future regulations, but the sources describe no current requirements, costs, or delays for building or operating data centers.
People behind it
- Montville Township Committee
Authorized and adopted Resolution 2026-350 directing the Planning Board to undertake the emerging-issues Master Plan reexamination.
- Montville Township Planning Board
Assigned responsibility for conducting the emerging-issues Master Plan reexamination and submitting its report to the Township Committee.
- Joseph H. Burgis
Planning professional designated to prepare the required Master Plan reexamination report.
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- Burgis Associates, Inc.
Firm designated to provide the planning services and prepare the reexamination report through Joseph H. Burgis.
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