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The Data Center Divide

Price Township

Neutral Data Center Policies

Monroe County approved a planning guide that offers advice municipalities may consider, but it imposes no legal requirements on data centers and does not directly affect their construction, expansion, or operation.

Rating and summary from Monroe County as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Price Township.

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Would create a proposed zoning overlay where data centers could be considered, subject to conditional-use approval and development standards; the ordinance has not yet been adopted.Price Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania Proposed Data Center Curative Amendment

What this means

It would create a path for data centers to be considered, which the township’s current zoning does not provide, but only within a proposed overlay of about 97 acres and with conditional-use approval and other standards. Overall, it offers a limited opportunity to build, with meaningful limits on where and how; the ordinance is proposed, not adopted.

People behind it

  • Developed and administered the proposed Data Center Zoning Ordinance and Data Center Overlay District.

  • Discussed the proposed ordinance and recommended that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution invoking a municipal curative amendment.

  • Initiated the municipal curative amendment process and is responsible for considering adoption of the proposed ordinance.

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  • Worked with the Township and Planning Commission to develop the regulations and recommended proceeding with the advertised ordinance.

  • Made the motion recommending that the Board of Supervisors adopt the municipal curative-amendment resolution.

  • Seconded the motion recommending that the Board of Supervisors adopt the municipal curative-amendment resolution.

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  • Data centers could be considered only within the proposed Data Center Overlay District, which covers approximately 96.96 acres across two specified properties; the underlying zoning classifications would remain unchanged. the proposed Data Center Overlay District consists of two properties

  • Any future data center proposal would require Conditional Use approval from the Board of Supervisors. Any future proposal would require Conditional Use approval

  • A proposed data center would have to comply with applicable zoning, environmental, engineering, and other regulatory requirements. compliance with applicable zoning, environmental, engineering, and other regulatory requirements

  • The proposed ordinance includes setback and buffering requirements for data centers. setbacks, buffering

  • The proposed ordinance includes noise-control requirements for data center development or operations. noise

  • The proposed ordinance includes stormwater-management requirements. stormwater management

  • The proposed ordinance includes environmental-protection and water-resource requirements. environmental protection, water resources

  • The proposed ordinance includes emergency-planning requirements for data centers. emergency planning

  • The proposed ordinance includes decommissioning requirements for data centers. decommissioning

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  • Creates a Data Center Overlay District covering approximately 96.96 acres across two properties along State Route 447, where data centers could potentially be considered. The underlying C-1 Commercial and RR Rural Residential zoning classifications would remain unchanged.

  • Allows a future data center proposal within the designated overlay district to be pursued through Conditional Use approval by the Board of Supervisors, subject to applicable zoning, environmental, engineering, and other regulatory requirements.

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