'We're Naked Right Now': E'town Advances Data Center Rules
Two weeks after saying it had no applications, Elizabethtown's Planning Commission voted 3-0 to send data center limits to City Council. Here is what the rules actually say, in their own words.
Two weeks ago we covered the joint meeting where Elizabethtown officials said out loud, twice, that no company has applied to build a data center here. On Monday night the Planning Commission turned that discussion into an actual proposal and voted 3-0 to send it to City Council. The room was standing room only, with not enough chairs to go around, and nearly every resident who spoke said the same thing: good that you are doing something, but this is not strict enough. One commissioner described the city's current position as being "naked right now." Below is the full record of what was proposed, what residents pushed back on, and the one question about Glendale that nobody in the room followed up on.
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