Chesapeake City Council closed a loophole in the city’s zoning code that could have allowed for data center development despite the eight-month moratorium on them the city adopted last month, but officials still have to iron out policy details.
Tuesday’s unanimous decision comes a year after council rejected a proposed 350,000-square-foot data center that faced public pushback — pushback that has cropped up in communities across the state and nation as large-scale data centers proliferate.
Last month, Chesapeake put a hold on considering applications for data centers so it could take the next eight months to craft regulations…