
Local residents and elected officials of water-rich Pavilion Township, an agricultural suburb of Kalamazoo, are fighting back against the development of a large AI data center by the developer Franklin Partners.
The developer has asked Lowell Township for rezoning from a Planned Unit Development (PUD) to light industrial, and to change the township’s zoning ordinance to specify that “data warehousing” is allowable within light industrial. The developer requested Data Warehousing be defined as:
Data Warehousing Facility: A warehouse-style building or buildings that store computer and networking systems, servers, and related equipment within a climate-controlled environment, as well as office support facilities, utility structures and equipment, all of which serve the purpose of storing, managing, processing, and transmitting digital data.
Lowell Township board has scheduled a public hearing on the rezoning for December 8th at 7pm, at the township hall.
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