Oak Grove has approved a one-year moratorium on new data center proposals while officials revise local rules, and a Blue Springs petition drive is seeking to give residents a vote on major industrial projects, as KSHB 41 reported.
What’s happening?
Across Jackson County, officials are increasingly being forced to decide where data centers fit into local planning and how much input residents should have before large facilities arrive.
After earlier 180-day pauses in Independence and at the county level, Oak Grove officials approved a longer, one-year break on new data center proposals.
Oak Grove City Administrator Matthew Randall said Oak Grove’s existing development code does not clearly account for data centers…