See you.

Commissioner Abear?

Here.

Commissioner Flick.

Commissioner Whitry's here.

Commissioner Steeg?

Here.

Thank you.

We would like to go ahead and read the rules.

Please probably The City Planning Commission has established certain rules governing the procedures to be followed at all public hearings.

Commissioner Jackson is here as well.

We welcome him.

Before speaking, each person shall give their name, address, and state who he or she is representing.

Proponents per proposal will speak for a period of 10 minutes.

Each speaker will be allowed a maximum of two minutes.

Opponents or other interested parties will speak a period of 15 minutes.

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I'm gonna go ahead and ask for a motion for um adoption of our meeting minutes from August 11th.

I'll make a motion to adopt the meeting minutes from July 28th.

Thank you, Commissioner Flick.

Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you, Commissioner Poche.

Any discussion?

Yes.

Um I actually think I need to call everybody's name, yes.

Um, Commissioner Steag, how do you Commissioner Whitry?

Yes.

Commissioner Flick?

Yes.

Commissioner Abear?

Yes.

Commissioner Kepper?

Yes.

Commissioner Poche.

Yes.

All right.

The meeting minutes have been adopted.

Commissioner.

Commissioner Jackson, thank you.

I need to add you to my list.

Welcome.

And we are going to move on to the first zoning docket, 036-26.

And if you're new to this room, or you just walked in, um, if you would like to speak, um, we need you to fill out cards and um they'll be brought up to me so that we can make sure that everybody's heard.

Zoning Docket 036-26.

All right.

Uh zoning docket 03626 was deferred from the CPC meeting on July 28th, but this presentation is largely the same, so we'll just begin.

Um it's a request from City Count by City Council motion for a text amendment to the CZO to define data centers and any related uses to consider whether these should be permitted or conditional in any zoning district or overlay, and to implement appropriate use and design standards for the uses not limited to density requirements, soundproofing and safety measures, and other regulations necessary.

Staff quickly concluded that the data center use is an atypical one from what usually goes through CPC and that there is a large variation in intensity based based on the size and scale of the use and the impacts from data centers are not just hyper local land use impacts like occupancy, traffic, building design, and lighting, but can be much broader, impacting local supplies of energy or water, and potentially creating major air quality, noise or water quality issues for nearby residents.

And the greatest impacts come from the really large facilities with power generation on site and or liquid cooling facilities on site, mostly hyperscale facilities.

To inform the recommendations and reports, staff reviewed zoning and land use regulations across the country, either from counties, state, or local governments.

Staff found that regulations vary.

Some cities or states or counties have moratoriums on data centers, either entirely or beyond some kind of threshold like 10,000 square feet or 50,000 megawatts of power.

But there are different approaches across the country as the demand for data centers has significantly increased in the past few years.

So recommendations.