TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Dustin Anderson, Director of Community Development
SUBJECT:
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Public Hearing for a Resolution to Approve an Annexation Agreement for the Annexation of Approximately 795 Acres Surrounding S. Rowell Road and Bernhard Road (A-4-25)
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BACKGROUND:
The petitioner, PowerHouse Hillwood Holding, LLC, intends to annex the 795-acre assemblage and develop a Data Center campus in four future phases. Data Center facilities are buildings that are used for the storage, management, processing, and transmission of digital data, which house computer network equipment, systems, servers, appliances, and other associated components related to digital data operations. These facilities often include air handlers, power generators, closed-loop cooling, storage facilities, utility substations, and other associated utility infrastructure to support sustained operations at the Data Center. The buildings that house Data Center infrastructure often resemble the size, design, and massing of other light industrial warehouse, commercial, or office facilities.
The subject Annexation and Development Agreement has been written to cover the terms of the associated Annexation, Zoning Reclassification, and Preliminary Planned Unit Development for the subject annexation. The Preliminary Planned Unit Development covers the entire 795-acre assemblage. Future final planned unit development petitions and final plats would be required for each phase of development. The petitioner intends to include one six-building cluster in each future phase of development, resulting in a total of 24 principal data center buildings, with an approximate total buildout square footage of 6,936,000 gross square feet. Stormwater management would be sized with each future phase of development as generally shown on the Preliminary PUD Plan set. Electrical substations of approximately 6 acres in size would accompany each future phase of development. A larger, 25-acre switching statio...
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