2026-10-20 - Planning Board

Summary

This page summarizes the posted agenda packet only (an image-only PDF of 66 pages, read from a scan); the meeting is on October 20 and its outcome is not known. In his October 13 memo Lee Crook said the Board will take up two items: the continuation of the Commissioners' data center text amendment, now with small staff edits highlighted in yellow after the October 6 discussion, and a rezoning for Piedmont Natural Gas LNG Facility Rezoning (REZ-26-23) to change 1,616.51 acres owned by Duke Energy Carolinas on Giles Road from RA-1 and RA-2 to CZ-HI for a liquefied natural gas storage facility and an Energy Reliability Center, with no subdivisions on the agenda. He wrote that he hoped to reach consensus quickly on the data center text so it can go to the Commissioners on October 26, and that the Piedmont item "should be heavily attended". The packet attaches the October 6 minutes, the Piedmont application signed by Neil Moser, its project narrative and conceptual site plan, and the RA-1 use list. The new text edits include classifying a data center by its power use at full buildout, a 40-foot berm height, no landscaping buffer next to commercial or industrial districts, a 1,000-foot setback from child care facilities, a ban on open-loop and evaporative cooling, and a new special use permit if a facility expands beyond its class.

Written from the posted agenda packet (an image-only PDF, read from a scan); the meeting had not happened as of 2026-10-19; no video recording found.

Issues discussed: Data Center Moratorium and Zoning Text Amendment, Piedmont Natural Gas LNG Facility Rezoning

Agenda

Read from a scan of the posted PDF (staff memo, agenda, October 6 minutes, data center amendment application and draft, Piedmont application, narrative, site plan, maps and adjoining owner list; only the agenda is reproduced).

DAVIDSON COUNTY PLANNING BOARD AGENDA
10/20/2026  6:00PM

I.   Welcome by the Chairman
II.  Adoption of the Agenda
III. Approval of the Planning Board Minutes
     A. 10/06/2026
IV.  Public Address
V.   Text Amendment
     A. Davidson County Board of Commissioners - Add Data Center to Table of Permitted Uses.
VI.  Rezonings
     A. Piedmont Natural Gas - RA-1 & RA-2 to CZ-HI - Tyro Township.
VII. Adjournment

Commissioners Meeting Room, Davidson County Governmental Center,
913 Greensboro Street, Lexington, North Carolina

Transcript

No video recording found.