Information technology facilities, including data centers, are prohibited in Agricultural, Agricultural Residential, Rural Residential, Ranchette, Small Lot Residential, Urban Residential, and Neighborhood Business zoning districts. They are allowed by right only in Commercial and Industrial districts.

A zoning certificate is required before constructing, enlarging, changing, maintaining, or using a data-center building or changing the use of an existing building. A new structure requires a Zoning Certificate—Structure, even when the data-center use is allowed by right.

Zoning certificates generally expire after two years, although the Planning Director may grant an extension of up to one additional year upon a showing of substantial progress.

A data-center zoning-certificate application must include a site plan showing property boundaries, existing and proposed structures, access, roads, easements, water bodies, landscaping or buffering, and required setbacks. A Wyoming-licensed professional land surveyor must prepare, stamp, and sign the plan when the parcel is two acres or less or when the Planning Department determines the setbacks are not clearly demonstrated.

Industrial-zoned data centers must be on lots of at least one acre, have at least 200 feet of frontage, and maintain a minimum 10-foot setback for principal and accessory structures from all property lines. Commercial-zoned data centers must have at least 100 feet of frontage, with commercial structures set back 10 feet from side and rear property lines and 50 feet from frontage property lines.

Commercial and Industrial developments must submit and obtain approval of a landscaping plan before final issuance of a zoning certificate. Required landscaping includes buffering residential areas from commercial or industrial uses and specified trees and shrubs along public road frontages.

Data centers must provide water and an approved sewage-disposal system. Individual septic systems serving less than 2,000 gallons per day of domestic effluent require County approval, while larger systems or systems serving more than one structure require Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality permitting.

Data centers must comply with minimum parking standards. Industrial uses require one parking space per employee plus spaces for each company-owned vehicle and visitors, while Commercial uses such as offices require one space per 300 square feet of floor area. Parking spaces must generally be at least 10 by 20 feet, with adequate access and maneuvering space.

New development and replacement light fixtures serving a data center must comply with outdoor-lighting controls. Light sources must be shielded and directed downward, and light measured 20 feet beyond the property line may not exceed 0.1 foot-candle when the neighboring property is residential or a public right-of-way. Laser and searchlight advertising or entertainment lighting is prohibited.

A data center located in the Aquifer Protection Overlay Zone must meet additional requirements, including a minimum 35-acre lot size, a 100-foot setback from vulnerable features unless an approved residential exception applies, and generally a Site Specific Investigation with professional engineering or geological review for a zoning-certificate application.

Development in Zone 1 of the Aquifer Protection Overlay Zone is prohibited except for development proposed by the City of Laramie for protection and use of City water wells. Data centers in other APOZ areas may also be barred if their operations involve listed prohibited activities, such as commercial hazardous-material uses, certain solid-waste activities, or prohibited underground-injection-control wells.

Violations of the zoning resolution can result in fines of up to $750 per offense, with each continuing day generally treated as a separate offense. A property in violation cannot receive a zoning certificate until the violation is resolved.

Information Technology Facilities, including data centers, are allowed by right in the Commercial (C) and Industrial (I) zoning districts, so they do not require a conditional-use permit; they are prohibited in the other listed zoning districts. Information Technology Facilities

For a use allowed by right, a Zoning Certificate—Structure authorizes the initial structure and its initial use, and the Planning Director must promptly approve or deny a complete application, generally within 30 days unless good cause supports an extension. approve or deny a complete application

Commercial zoning is intended for areas near major roads with water and sewer available through on-site or centralized systems. Commercial lots need only be large enough to accommodate water and wastewater systems within required setbacks, with a 100-foot frontage and 10-foot side and rear setbacks, and a 50-foot frontage setback for commercial structures. water and sewer available

Industrial zoning allows development on lots of at least one acre, with a 200-foot minimum frontage and 10-foot setbacks from property lines for principal and accessory structures. Minimum Lot Size: One (1) acre

The benefits and limitations of a zoning certificate generally run with the land and do not terminate when the property is transferred, helping preserve an approved data-center use through a change in ownership. run with the land

A lawful existing use may continue as a nonconforming use if later zoning changes make it impermissible. The protection is limited: the use cannot be expanded or changed to another nonconforming use, and it becomes subject to current zoning if active and continuous operation stops for 24 consecutive months. may be continued

Existing Commercial and Industrial properties are generally exempt from the landscaping standards unless the gross floor area increases by at least 25% within five years or the property’s land area expands. This can reduce landscaping requirements for existing data-center sites, subject to those limits. Existing Commercial and Industrial zoned properties