BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Residents can comment on the data center proposed at 2184 Industrial Drive, along Route 22, when it goes before the Bethlehem Planning Commission at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Town Hall Rotunda, 10 E. Church St.
The commission, not City Council, rules on the plan, and it is not deciding whether a data center may go there. The zoning the project was filed under allows data centers on the site without special permission. The commission reviews how the site would be built: driveways, stormwater, utilities, street lighting, landscaping and any exceptions to the city’s site rules the developers request.
Under the city’s land development rules, it must approve a plan that meets the city’s requirements, though it can attach conditions. If it rejects a plan, state law requires it to cite the rules the plan fails…