AUGUSTA TWP. MI — Usually, ten Augusta Township residents show up to trustee meetings, Trustee Linda Adams said. Tuesday, there were 40, and they didn’t expect the meeting to go like this.
Many of them wanted to discuss a $1 billion data center proposed by New York City-based real estate investment firm Thor Equities, which had requested rezoning a rural area of the township for the center. However, when the first person introduced the topic of the data center in initial public comments, a board member said it was not on the agenda, only the rezoning was…