Public Hearing: YES ? NO ? Department: Planning & Sustainability
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COMMISSION DISTRICT(S): All Districts
Application of the Director of Planning and Sustainability to Amend Chapter 27 To Establish a Definition, Regulatory Guidelines, and Development Standards for Data Centers in M (Industrial), M-2 (Heavy Industrial) and O-I (Office-Institutional) zoning districts. This text amendment is County-wide.
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PETITION NO: N12-2025-0972 TA-25-1247647
PROPOSED USE: Data Centers in M, M-2 & O-I zoning districts.
LOCATION: County-wide.
PARCEL NO. : N/A
INFO. CONTACT: Eva Chauveau, Long Range Planner
PHONE NUMBER: 404-371-2155
PURPOSE:
Application of the Director of Planning and Sustainability to Amend Chapter 27 To Establish a Definition, Regulatory Guidelines, and Development Standards for Data Centers in M (Industrial), M-2 (Heavy Industrial) and O-I (Office-Institutional) zoning districts. This text amendment is County-wide.
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommended Action
COMMUNITY COUNCIL: CC-1: Full-cycle deferral; CC-2: Deferral; CC-3: Full-cycle deferral; CC-4: Denial; CC-5: Denial.
PLANNING COMMISSION: (Sept. 9, 2025) Full-Cycle Deferral.
PLANNING STAFF: Approval.
STAFF ANALYSIS: The DeKalb County Planning & Sustainability Department is seeking to adopt an ordinance for regulations on data center developments, consisting of a physical room, building, or facility that houses infrastructure for building, running, delivering, or transmitting applications and services, or for storing and managing the data associated with those applications or service. The proposed ordinance defines 'data centers' in three capacities of minor, major, and campus - which is dependent on square footage, load capacity, and/or whether a substation is required for operation. Major and campus data centers shall only be permitted in Light Industrial (M) and Industrial (M-2) zoning districts due to their scale,...
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