ARCHBALD \u2014 A packed gymnasium erupted with cheers Wednesday as Archbald Borough Council unanimously denied the Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus.\n<\/p>\n
Council\u2019s anxiously awaited decision on Lackawanna County\u2019s largest proposed data center campus was the culmination of nine public hearings and about 26 hours of often-heated testimony and cross-examination. Brooklyn-based Cornell Realty Management sought conditional-use approval to build 14 data centers on the mountainside above Business Route 6 and Route 247, or Wildcat Road.\n<\/p>\n
Residents and local elected officials have widely opposed the development, and speakers preceding the vote reiterated that stance as seven urged council to deny the application amid a packed council meeting in the Borough Building\u2019s third-floor gym.<\/p>\n
A standing-room-only crowd of at least 175 quietly listened to the roll-call vote, roaring with applause and a standing ovation as shouts of \u201cThank you!\u201d echoed through the gymnasium when council cast its seventh vote to deny the application.<\/p>\n
Council President Louis Rapoch, Vice President Joseph Altier III and council members Larry Marchetti, Madonna Munley, Lisa Osborne, Erin Owen and Larry West all voted to deny the application.\n<\/p>\n
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