Description
The city's first-ever data center zoning rules, requiring a Specific Use Authorization (council vote) for data centers in C-3 commercial and light industrial districts, by-right only in more intense industrial zones if minimum standards are met, a ban over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, and a new legal definition of 'data center.'
Impact summary
Any new data center in most commercial and light industrial areas now needs a public council vote, giving residents notice and a say; projects in heavy industrial zones meeting the standards can build without one.
At a glance
- Hearings
- 1
- Public comments
- 0
- Total mentions
- 1
Last vote · City Council
Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Oct 29, 2026.
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