At an overflow special meeting Wednesday evening, the Saline Township Board voted unanimously to rescind its earlier decision to rezone property tied to a proposed superscale data center from A-1 Agricultural to I-1 Industrial.
The decision followed remarks from David Landry, the attorney representing the township in litigation filed by Related Digital and property owners over the project. Landry explained that leaving the property zoned industrial could allow future industrial uses if the data center were to cease operations.
“If the data center goes away in two years and the property is zoned industrial, then if another company can define a need for an industrial use, that could go on the property,” Landry said. “If you leave the zoning as A-1 agricultural, the land use could then revert back to agricultural.”…