SALINE TWP., MI —A Saline Township resident living near the massive “Stargate” data center under construction off West Michigan Avenue/U.S. 12 will have her day in court on Friday, Feb. 20.
In December, Kathryn Haushalter filed a legal motion on Washtenaw County Circuit Court seeking to intervene in an already settled lawsuit. Haushalter, who lives nearby on Willow Road, wants the closed case reopened so she can defend the township board’s initial vote to deny rezoning about 575 acres of farmland for the data center.
Data center developer Related Digital and property owners sued the township after the board’s vote to deny the rezoning. Township officials quickly reversed course, reaching a court-ordered consent judgment that allowed the data center project to move forward with a list of stipulations…