The City of Ypsilanti held two public meetings in October concerning a data center zoning ordinance currently under consideration. The first meeting was held in person Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Ypsilanti City Hall by Andrew Hellenga, city manager, and Joe Meyers, community services director. The second meeting was held via Zoom, led by Meyers.
The in-person meeting focused on information regarding the latest ordinance, what the ordinance would mean for the city and a general overview. The second meeting, held online, went over what is being proposed to add to the city’s zoning ordinance.
“The biggest question that we have from people, and I just want to make this very clear, ‘Is there a current … proposal for a data center in the City of Ypsilanti?’ The answer is, no. Emphatically, no,” Meyers said. “Right now we have a moratorium on data centers; there are no active proposals … that exist to locate a data center in the city. There are proposals in other townships, but as far as the City of Ypsilanti goes, there are no proposals that have been requested for a data center in the City of Ypsilanti, specifically, a large scale data center, and so, I just want to make that very clear up front.”…