On Monday, the Hogansville City Council voted 4-1 to deny the current proposed ordinance that would create a Heavy-Industrial District and standards to regulate data centers. The council also voted to extend the existing moratorium on data center applications until the next meeting on Sept. 8, giving them time for another public notice period and time to draft the resolution to extend the moratorium even further. Prior to the vote, three residents urged the council to extend the moratorium and noted more protections could be added to the ordinance. The residents cited a letter from Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) that had been emailed to the council with additional provisions needed to protect the city. SELC asked the council to strengthen the standards for data centers and delay any vote on the draft ordinance until it could be revised. Previous public hearings on the ordinance also received similar input from the public asking for stricter standards, and that outcry was matched by several council members during Monday's vote. Councilmember Mandy Neese brought her expertise from working on many data center sites in Georgia. She noted construction and traffic concerns that she didn’t think Hogansville could manage. She asked for more protections regarding construction, including a traffic study plan for construction and the requirement that data center developers not have construction on Sundays. “I don't think that Hogansville is capable of managing the…
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