Frederick County’s Council passed a map designed to limit data center development at a meeting Tuesday night.
Spanning approximately 2,600 acres, or 0.6% of the county’s total landmass, the map constrains data center development to a single location north of Adamstown. This is more than 1,000 acres larger than the planning commission had recommended in October.
Six amendments to the original proposed map passed on a 5-2 vote, with one passing unanimously. The amendments that passed set the borders of the Critical Digital Infrastructure Overlay Zone (CDI-OZ). Rejected and withdrawn amendments to the map would have seen the CDI-OZ substantially restricted, and much closer to the commission’s recommended 1,600 acres…