Developers are seeking a zoning change to build a two-story data center, with about 115,000 square feet of area per floor, on an almost 27-acre site just inside Statesboro’s city limits on Burkhalter Road. A company called 4AM Development LLC, which owns the property, is the applicant for the change from an “R-4” high-density residential zoning district to an “O,” or office and business district, for the 26.94-acre parcel. With John Paul Moore of the civil engineering firm Thomas & Hutton listed as agent, this request appears as the fifth of five items on the agenda for the Statesboro Planning Commission’s 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4 regular meeting. The Planning Commission is an appointed seven-member citizen panel expected to make a recommendation. But as a zoning map amendment, the change would require a vote of the elected City Council to grant or deny. Public notice signs on the Burkhalter Road frontage already announce a City Council hearing for the 5:30 p.m. Aug. 18 meeting, as well as this Tuesday’s planning board hearing. Also, under the Data Center Ordinance enacted by City Council on a 3-1 vote June 2, a special use permit would be required, as data centers are not an automatically allowed use, or “use by right” in any zone. Data centers occupying sites of 50 acres or less may be allowed in highway-oriented commercial, or HOC; light industrial, or LI; mixed-use, or MX; and office, or O, zoning districts. “The Special Use Permit application shall be separate from the…
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