Cartersville City Council members Calvin Cooley, left, and Alyssa Cordell listen as a speaker addresses the council at the Aug. 20 meeting. As Cartersville City Councilwoman Alyssa Cordell looks on, Data Bank Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy Justin Puccio addresses the city council at the Aug. 20 council meeting. Cartersville City Attorney Keith Lovell makes a point at the Aug. 20 City Council meeting. Cartersville attorney Brandon Bowen addresses the Cartersville City Council at its Aug. 20 meeting. Bowen represented Data Band, which wants to build a data center in the city industrial park. Brian Yogodzinski addresses the Cartersville City Council at the council's meeting Aug. 20. Supporters and opponents of a proposed Cartersville data center spoke at an Aug. 20 public hearing. Data Bank, the company that will build and run the data center, had already gotten a unanimous recommendation for approval from the Cartersville Planning Commission on Aug. 11. This time they were before Cartersville City Council for a first reading of the rezoning ordinance. Data Bank plans to build a data center on about 69 acres at 218 Industrial Park Road. The company is asking for the property to be rezoned from H-I, or heavy industrial, to T, or technology. The company also asked for two variances: a reduction in the number of required off-street parking places from 1,313 to 286; and allowing the front facade of the data center building closest to Industrial Park Road to be…
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