“We have to have something in the rules and regulations of our zoning ordinance that addresses data centers,” says solicitor Joseph Blazosek.<\/p>\n
That’s why supervisors hired a consultant to propose new rules and regulations limiting data center development, despite there being no active proposals to build one in the township.<\/p>\n
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The new rules restrict development on aspects such as location, noise, size, and distance from other properties.<\/p>\n
Some residents were concerned that these new rules aren’t strict enough.<\/p>\n
Amanda Reiser of Jenkins Township says, “The only thing I would ask this board here is that you consider how much more of an impact this will have than what’s written in this ordinance on paper, because it’s so far-reaching.”<\/p>\n
Some far-reaching impacts that people raised concerns about were water consumption.<\/p>\n
Dino Rodeghiero from Jenkins Township says, “In the legislation, please, non-potable water only. No public water supply that can go for drinking, bathing, watering my dog, lawn, cars, I don’t care what.”<\/p>\n
Folks in neighboring Pittston Township are concerned about new rules that would limit data center development to only two zones in Jenkins Township, right on the edge of Pittston Township.<\/p>\n
Pittston Township Supervisor Deborah Taroli says, \u00a0“We are located near the data center overlay district. It’s in very close proximity to our township residents, especially the Suscon area.”<\/p>\n
Some concerned residents also asked if it was possible to just outright ban data centers in the township.<\/p>\n
Robert Linskey, Jenkins Township supervisor, says, “If we had an ordinance that said ‘No data centers,’ they will take that to court, and we will lose, and they could put a data center anywhere they want, pretty much; that’s why we’re doing this.”<\/p>\n
Township supervisors tabled the vote to adopt these new rules to incorporate some residents’ concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One township in Luzerne County is looking to take an extra precaution against data centers, despite there being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-225738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}