Plymouth Township Council Issues Statement on Data Center Application Ahead of Zoning Hearing
Plymouth Township Council released a statement regarding a proposed data center at 900 Conshohocken Road, which will face a zoning hearing board on June 25th for a special exception. Developer Brian O'Neill is seeking approval for the project. The township has not yet adopted a specific data center ordinance, despite state and county recommendations.
Plymouth Township Council issued a statement on June 9th concerning a proposed data center project located at 900 Conshohocken Road within Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania. The developer, Brian O'Neill, has submitted an application for the project and is seeking a special exception from the township's zoning hearing board, with a public hearing scheduled for June 25th.
The local publication, MoreThanTheCurve.com, noted that the council did not answer specific questions it submitted on June 4th, including whether the township was developing a data center ordinance. This question was posed because Pennsylvania state law prevents municipalities from outright banning legal property uses, and both state and county authorities have advised townships to adopt ordinances allowing data centers by conditional use in industrially zoned areas. Plymouth Township has yet to implement such an ordinance, a point of concern raised by the publication.