This is a guest opinion column
At the podium, Councilor Hunter Williams warned Birmingham residents that if the Council delayed the June 9 vote, the Oxmoor Valley data center project would have “free rein to do whatever they want.” He looked directly to the City Attorney for confirmation. She gave it.
Days later, Councilor Joshua Vasa reassured the public of the exact opposite. In his defense of the vote, he stated that the ordinance “did not approve or deny any specific project,” and that the Oxmoor Valley project was not even governed by the ordinance because its applications predated the moratorium…