The Columbus Planning Advisory Commission (PAC) voted Wednesday to recommend to the Columbus Council a technology overlay district ordinance for a proposed data center and to recommend the council create a board to oversee data centers.
After a failed motion to deny the recommendation and having to vote twice for a motion to approve it, commissioners voted 5-1 to recommend approving the measure, which they tabled earlier this month, with the condition that there be a 500-foot setback.
The proposed setback was initially 75 feet…