2026-09-15 - Planning Board
Summary
The posted file for this date (a 242 KB text extraction, about 2,900 lines) contains no agenda page and no minutes; it is a background packet on data centers, so what the Board did on September 15 is not recorded here. The first item is a staff or Commissioner list headed "Topics of Discussion for the 09-03-26 BOC Meeting Regarding Data Centers" (noise, setbacks of 75 feet up to a quarter mile or 1,500 feet, minimum lot size, landscaping and buffering, water and cooling, power, enforcement, application, environmental, approval process, decommissioning, site visits). It is followed by two reference documents compiled by Tavis Curry, a county resident and IT professional: a benchmark sheet of numeric standards adopted elsewhere (updated August 30) and a 21-section facts reference (updated August 31). The rest is third-party material: the text of North Carolina Senate Bill 730 (Fifth Edition), a Community Strategies fact sheet on zoning for data centers, Edgecombe County's data center and cryptomining ordinance section, a compilation of North Carolina data center zoning provisions, an NC County Attorneys Summer Conference slide deck on zoning and data centers (Adam Lovelady), and a planning article on cryptocurrency mining. The October 6 minutes show the Board approved its September 15 minutes, which are not in these files.
Written from the posted file (text extraction); it holds background reading, not an agenda or minutes; no video recording found.
Issues discussed: Data Center Moratorium and Zoning Text Amendment
Agenda
The posted file has no agenda page. Contents in file order (headings as found):
- Topics of Discussion for the 09-03-26 BOC Meeting Regarding Data Centers (13 numbered topics)
- Data Center Ordinance Standards: What Other Jurisdictions Have Adopted (compiled by Tavis Curry, updated August 30, 2026)
- Data Center Facts: Common Community Questions (prepared by Tavis Curry, updated August 31, 2026; 21 sections from facility types, power, noise and water to tax abatements, moratoriums and questions for site visits)
- Community Strategies to Address Data Center Development and Operation (fact sheet) and a jurisdiction comparison table
- Edgecombe County, NC Unified Development Ordinance excerpt, Section 4.3.30 Cryptomining Operations and Data Centers
- North Carolina Senate Bill 730 (Fifth Edition) text
- Data Center Zoning Compilation: North Carolina (Buncombe, Edgecombe, Madison, plus Virginia and Montana examples)
- Zoning and Data Centers (Adam Lovelady, 2026 County Attorneys Summer Conference slides)
- Cryptocurrency Mining (planning article by David Morley, AICP) and "How does your zoning treat data centers and cryptocurrency mines?"
Transcript
No video recording found.