Records not linked to a specific agenda item
Conditions
- moratorium duration capped at ninety days or until BL2026-1391 passes
- moratorium does not apply to data centers already in use / operating
- moratorium applies only to projects going through the building permit process
- remove the East Bank residents association seat for now — association and 1,000-resident trigger don't yet exist
- remove residents association seat now, bring it back if/when the association forms
- use the East Nashville community plan boundary instead of the UZO for the East Nashville seat
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Questions & answers
Council Member Horton: Is the emergency exception allowing generators to exceed 72 hours appropriate to include in the recommendation to council?
Council Member Horton: Could staff take a more nuanced approach to carve out hospitals/critical functions from the emergency generator exception?
Commissioner Hanley: why did the amendment move from a data-center-specific light trespass definition to an existing standardized regulation
Commissioner Hanley: moved away from a specific data-center light trespass definition to existing regulation
Commissioner Hanley: specific definition of light trespass for data centers moved to existing regulation
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Citations & precedent
Tennessee Code Annotated · Lisa
State of Tennessee criteria for moratoriums (temporary in nature, no longer than ninety days) · Council Member (moratorium lead sponsor)
writ of certiorari; sixty-day appeal deadline; Davidson County chancery/circuit court · SPEAKER_02
ASHRAE 90.4 · Planning Staff (SPEAKER_11)
state law on nonconforming uses · Planning Staff (SPEAKER_11)
Public Chapter 961 · Planning Staff (SPEAKER_11)
EPA generator emission standards · Planning Staff (SPEAKER_11)
Procedure
- comment period applies where public hearing is closed or not otherwise required; several closed public hearings on this agenda — Lisa
- reads tentative consent items, asks for opposition; if none, item stays on consent and all voted at once — SPEAKER_02
- council member raised concern on one component of item 1, asked to pull for discussion; chair deferred discussion until the vote — SPEAKER_08
- public hearing has already happened and is still closed; discussion is only among commissioners, not reopening public hearing — chair
+13 more procedural steps