'Accessory Uses Only': E'town Adopts Its Data Center Rules, 6-0
Elizabethtown's data center zoning rules are now law. The City Council adopted Ordinance 13-2026 on a 6-0 roll call vote August 17, with no discussion. Minutes later, a resident asked the question nobody had asked before the vote: does the 50,000 square foot cap include sub-basements?
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It took about ninety seconds. On Monday, August 17, the Elizabethtown City Council gave Ordinance 13-2026 its second reading and adopted it on a 6-0 roll call vote. No council member spoke before the vote. After five weeks, two public hearings, a Planning Commission recommendation and a packed July meeting, the city's first real data center zoning rules became law without a word of debate at the table.
Then, during public comment, a resident asked the question nobody had asked before the vote.
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