Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Tell me when it's ready. Good afternoon everybody. This is the Planning Commission meeting on June the 10th, 2026 at 4 p.m. This is a special call meeting and unfortunately we don't have a quorum So this is going to be, instead of a regular meeting, this is going to be a work session where several, our focus is going to be on a resolution on data centers. And we are going to ask for public comments. Anybody have a public comment?

Yeah, we don't want them. I'll take all the water.

Okay.

What was your name?

You got that Sandy? Okay. Good deal. Uh, well that's, you know, one of the problems that we have in zoning and it's really not a problem. It's a, it is the fact that data centers are legal. And and the mayor has has touched on this, and I've echoed those statements in the last meeting. Since it's a legal activity, we have to have a place for it. We can't outlaw. We can't ban them. We can put conditions on them that might make it unattractive for him to be here now. A positive about data centers is that they collect and they store information, and according to what I've read, they're useful and necessary for formulating algorithms and anything in AI. Have you got anything else positive to say about it? So that'll kind of show you where we are. Well, those things happen. So we're going to try to get a resolution that we have in front of us. We're going to try to strengthen it a little bit. The problem with the data centers from everything I've read is that we don't know what the long-term effects to our environment will be, the amount of water used, the strain on the electrical grid, the disposal of wastewater, and the effects of the constant total noise are some of the issues which we have to deal. And finally, as far as I think everyone planning commission is concerned, we must protect our county from the downstream costs that may arise from installation centers. Increased cost of electricity and water, noise and air pollution, water and ground contamination is just examples of these. That's my public comment. I don't guess we need to approve the agenda or anything like that. No. This is a work session.

This is a work session. You're just going to talk.

So I'm going to put that away.

And I called Loftus Underground, I think it is, maybe. Because they're all up and down doing some weird digging. And I'm sorry. I just want to know what's going on. I really do. They said I'm going to be a good woman. I was like, well, we have been women. I've talked her finally into doing Wi-Fi. Mom, after all these years, just got Wi-Fi a few months back. Anyway. The Loftus Underground, they said that it could be electric, it could be water, it could be Wi-Fi. So what is it and what are they doing on the Pima Road, too? Because they said- May I say something?

Yes, please. If you don't mind, this is a work session for this board to talk about data centers.

I didn't know it had to pertain to it, though. That's what I was going to ask.

I kind of doubt it, so if you don't mind, Just if you've got, we were looking for information that we can put in this zoning resolution amendment that would strengthen it, as our chairman said. So if you guys got some ideas or done some research on data centers, we would appreciate your input. But right now, we don't have any idea what those utility companies are doing at Blanty's Chapel. Thanks.

All right. I guess we'll move on. Do you want to go through the resolution piece at a time? Is that the best thing to do?

Well, I've probably got the least to say about it right now because what I found was this is a Knox County zoning resolution amendment that they have adopted. It's not one they're proposing. They've already voted on it. It's in effect. So I've reviewed it online and I thought it was a very comprehensive zoning resolution so I copied it off to present to you guys and our professional planner. I sent it to our professional planner so she could tweak any language that might make it more specific to Coffey County and she did that. There's only two things I've spotted right off that I think people might ought to make notes on is the very last page where it says when it becomes effective. It says this resolution becomes effective in five days, I think. i believe like all of our other zoning amendments it should become effective immediately upon passage that's one change and then the groundwater they re they reference uh that data centers cannot use existing rails and i'm wondering if we know and strengthen that up to have some sort of language in there that might prevent them from drilling a well where it would deplete the underground water aquifer that may be shared with other individuals miles away as far as that goes so uh like a hydrologist just a hydrologist should it be uh in there that may be in there already but those are the only two things that jumped out at me and i'm sure you guys have more but that's i didn't see that and i don't really do

Can we prevent you from digging a well?

From digging a well? No. Now, they have to get a permit now from the state to dig one. That way the state can keep up with all the wells that's in the state. But you cannot stop them from digging one that I know of.

But if it affects the aquifer negatively, that might be a reason to stop it.

So I do have something I printed on this fact sheet right here specifically on that. I did not see it in here, and that's one of the things I added that we add as well in water supply protection. So most of the counties or several other counties, I didn't list the counties out or anything, but If they're putting in a private well, you can require testing within a mile to see how it affects the local properties that are also feeding off that specific water supply and you can request that. know based off the usage that they're proposing that they're going to be using that adjacent properties will not be um and it so let me just read this for you the applicant shall at its expense conduct a baseline survey of private wells within one mile the prior property commencement of construction including water quality testing and yield measurements so we would need to know how much they're going to use up front and how much it's going to pull out of that specific risk or war that they tap into essentially if during operation and you private well within one mile experience this is documented reduction in yield loss or loss of potability or contamination that qualifies a hydrologist attributes more likely than not the data center's water withdrawal or operations shall be at its expense at the property option. Either restore or reduce the water usage specifically out of that location.

Can we, you're talking about the one mile, can we, would it be acceptable for us to go more than one mile? And the reason I say that is because a prime example was Eagleville. Eagleville, right outside of Eagleville, they brought in a big sod farm. They started watering the sod farm off of groundwater.

Mm-hmm.

People on the other side of Eagle Bowl that lived up on the hills, their wells went dry.

Right.

So that's why I'm wondering, maybe could we extend that to more than one mile?

I'll say this much. There's people that already do the one-mile rule. Now it's up to us to change that, and I guess the legal team to verify how far out what would be our limitation to do it. I know that we can't. Other people have done one mile, but it's up to us, essentially, I guess, to enforce. I agree.

I don't know if there is some limitations on that.

I don't know, but that would be- We'd have to, this is a rough draft, so- Right, I understand. We would have to just check, see how far the county could take it. put it on the bottom and that way they can that he probably knows a lot more about that stuff like I said he can just use the rough draft for this stuff that we can add um Also, go ahead. See, other than that, that that was one of the things I wanted to add.

And there's the water situation is to me is one of the one of the biggest situations. Not only the availability of the water, but what happens after the water runs through the data center, the wastewater.

So also, I have something to say about that stormwater and impervious surface limits these sites have huge roof parking lot areas they're dumping you know into a retention pond or something so with that being said uh where is that pond overflowing to i know so from my experience uh food supplier factories that i've serviced they have a let's say a discharge pond which either is guts or chemicals or whatever that pond there has to be continuously serviced. So if they're dumping water with metal shavings in it or something else, their retention pond needs some sort of maintenance plan to maintain that so that doesn't raise any higher.

And the water testing itself, I've got a good video of a guy addressing the Ohio Commission He says it's not what they're testing for, it's what they're not testing for. And there are a lot of heavy metals. PFAB, stuff like that they don't test for. Those things will have to be tested for, I think it's 2029 or 2031. They'll have to start testing for those. So just a simple water test that they do is not going to cut it. What we do for city wastewater and stuff like that, that's not going to. That's not going to be enough.

So as we're learning with that being said, we don't know the impact it's going to have. And let's say a lot of these comments to be added, like the light pollution that it's going to cause. These sites are putting out so much power and stuff. You're going to have some multiple issues as far as If it's got a buffer all the way around it, the wildlife there is definitely going to have some repercussions. Also, air quality and water, like you said. So with that being said, I think we should just backtrack to the either community impact fee or property protection. which would essentially require them to put in a fund per wattage or whatever it is that we establish that they will have to create as a bond. So, it's essentially a fund to be used.

Hill County, Texas starts out with $150,000 fee to use for any expenses the county might have in this testing and all that. I think that that's something that we should look at. We also should look at, and I know this is jumping to the end, but I also think we should look at an end of life or decommissioning deal. And Kurt, how do you usually do that? I mean, would it be an insurance bond? What would the solar, I can't remember what we did with the solar.

So either a financial surety bond posted up front or Like I said, the option B is to create that they put in what is called community impact fee. And it is a fund that they consistently pay into so the bond doesn't run out after they're gone. And the county has the right to use those funds to repair whatever it is that they didn't test for or account for initially.

I definitely think that needs to be in there. I definitely think that's something that needs to be in there.

So let me read. The property protection and remediation fund The remediation fund, that's what essentially would clean up the damage. So let's say how the solar panels, they got damaged, they dipped out, company went under. Well, the county would have the remediation fund where they can go in and take them solar panels down, clean it up, or whatever they have to do. And you'd have, you know, or like I said.

And I have no idea what the end of life of a data center looks like.

Right.

You know, I don't know that. I mean, I... But there will be an end of life, I promise you. And it needs to be covered.

And Linn County, Iowa is one that has already implemented that data centers having a community impact betterment funds. They have an annual scale based off the facility size usage and some of the funds they go for that, you know, initially when the construction is super heavy, any damage to the roads, area improvements, if they have to put in a bigger buffer or anything like that. But that also has to be ran by the legal team and look, see how those counties.

What I gave y'all was from the legislature that they're looking at. And they broke it down into three different sizes. small, medium, and large. And just to give you an example on a small location, no data center shall be permitted on a partial within 100 linear feet of a partial containing the residential use. Daycare home, daycare center, religious institution and stuff, they broke it down into different sizes. And I think this is something that some of this that we could also use.

I think in the one that Amanda has under dimensional standards, number one is she's got 65 feet. We want to make sure we don't have any buildings over 35 feet, correct? That's the height limit in Coffey County. So this data center doesn't need to be any higher than 35 feet, okay? And if you look at number three, the data centers and data center accessory uses shall be set back 300 feet from the boundary of residential zoning districts or the lot line of any property developed with a sensitive receptor, which are homes, schools, all that stuff. However, it doesn't say anything about from a lot line that has nothing backing up to a farm. I think it needs to be 300 feet all the way around. You agree with that, Anastasia?

Yes. For one, I think not just 300 feet from a home, but what if it's from a live stream or... I guess that would... Mainly would be the T deck that controls that. It can't be within a certain. Don't say that dirty word. I know. I'm just saying I think it would be great to add that in that it can't be right next to a river or something like that to where there's.

Discharge right off and in.

Right. Some sort of water stream on top of the 300 linear feet.

Yeah.

Yeah. Now this, this here also looking at access got broke down three sections. The large no data center shall be permitted on a partial within 2640 linear feet of a partial container residential or anything.

A large data center, right?

That's for a large one. But like I say, it's... What do they call it, large?

Is it a square footage?

It's a square footage.

That's a half mile, exactly.

Right. But they're saying it's...

There's a small... I'm looking for a square footage.

So large data center being 100,499 square feet and five feet.

Okay. Page one. Yeah. So I mean that's, we got large is 2100,000. Small data center, 5,000.

Well, I don't know if the parcel of land will contain it. I don't know if we set all the boundary setbacks.

We have a little bit of a unique situation here.

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely. Yeah, I think that'd be based on the size.

Raise up the lawn before the... For a residential or even commercial ground, they have to have a lawn. So that would be in the... I don't know.

And then there needs to be some type of fund that continues the life. And then there needs to be an insurance bond or something for the end of the life of that the people, all the employment comes in the beginning when you're building. And then some of those data centers are run by 12 to 20 people. And so it's not a big deal to tell 12 to 20 people not to come to work and lock the doors and leave. And then there it sits.

When does the bond run out? Once the building is done? That's a performance bond.

Right, just a performance bond.

Do these buildings have a performance bond?

Do they have an insurance bond?

Do an insurance bond? That's a legal question. It would be a lifetime is what you're looking for. It could be 75 years. They may, as you described it, end of life. There will be an end of life, but who's to say how long it'll be? yeah so the bond has to be uh at least acknowledge the time period which is why lynn county adopted a betterment fund essentially for community impact funds

an annual payment scale to the facility that goes into it. Dedicated funds for the county to use for those exit area improvements. We're going to decide on the scale how much they have to contribute, either based off the water or off the size. Whatever their performance is every month, they have to put into the fund. So essentially, as long as they're operating the airplane and their own insurance to us, the county. That's your bond.

How would that be handled in the county?

I was going to say, I will defer comment to him. I think he's going to have to weigh in on it.

That's just a chance.

All right.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think our planner, our professional planner needs to be in our next full business meeting, you know, where we can actually take action from stuff. You know, our moratorium gives us a certain degree of comfort at this time, but I feel like this amendment... needs to be not necessarily fast tracked. We don't want to do major stuff. But we need to get through it as quick as we can and get it attached to our zones. And I do want to be sure the draft that everybody received, Amanda did put definitions in there. We need to pull that out, be sure that goes back in our definition section, not just the amendment. Because definitions have, we use our definitions a lot to help clear up confusion on issues.

I think we should at least have one or two meetings to decide what, like you said, the linear footage of what we want to change about Amanda's and then make one more additional, whatever we decide, you know, whether we decide to do it or not. Well, water supply was not on here. We would like to add that. We would also like to add something about the storm water and testing.

So we, you know, when we have more members. Yeah.

We can always review the video. But the chairman made a good point earlier that prior to this work session that testing should be done by independent third party that we mutually agree to. I think that's a very good point.

I like so basically we need to protect ourselves with some type of bond correct the short version of this yes we need to make certain that we know the testing I would like to know if we could limit the size

And decommissioning.

The decommissioning statement. Yeah, that's in this one too. Okay. Okay, that's in this one too. And the decommissioning statement and how that's insured. Right. All right. Let's, uh, y'all good with what we've discussed so far? Okay. I'm going to go by Amanda's or Amanda's thing here. And we've done that. We've done that. done the accessory uses. Do you all see any problem with the landscape buffer? I think she did an excellent job on the landscape. Okay, the dimensional standards, we want to change that 65 feet to 35 feet. And we want a 300 foot boundary And I'm gonna put a question mark by that, because if you were to have a data center the size of one of these large ones, I'm not sure 300 feet's enough.

We need to put in based on size.

Based on size.

That's what I was talking about on this one,

We can have a size chart like the footer does on the plans. That's exactly right. Let's say if your footer's too much, you need this much metal. If your building is this big, you need a buffer this big. So we should probably consider that, not just the buffer, but the water usage and generator use as well.

She has done a nice job of describing the landscape buffer. I'm pretty well satisfied with that. Greening and fencing. I don't see a problem with that.

I thought it was pretty good.

Yeah. Noise and vibration. And this is where I, one of the places where I wrote, we need to be able to agree on who tests that and how often it's tested. And I think that she's got that in there.

One thing I didn't see is could we require it to be annually tested reporting? I'd like to make sure that.

I think it's every six months. Is it not?

Maximum decibel levels. I did not see it because I've got it in my notes the first run. I'm not going to say it's not.

An as-built sound study may also be required thereafter by Coffey County.

on the as built as built but no continuous is what i got from it okay i might add question mark i might have missed in it is there anything in there about the uh running time and stuff on the generators and things

No, because I have it that it's missing no clear enforceable cap on generator operations during non-emergencies. So without saying they could say, you know, this is our backup generators, but right now... And right now, I did not see it when I read this, that there's a limit on how much DBA they're allowed to use.

Okay, this one here says the generator shall be fully enclosed around, testing of these generators shall not exceed 10 hours per month, and testing shall only be done between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

We need to add some things to that one.

As the maximum permissible sound levels, OK, that's about the decimals, which we've got that. But I just saw that they limit that to those hours only.

The maximum decibel levels specified herein shall not apply during times of power outage. The sound studies shall also evaluate and report anticipated decibel levels when all emergency powers are activated. demonstrates that no vibration from the data center.

What section is that in?

F. I'm under noise and vibration F on number three.

Okay.

This is one of those study prepared that I want to have a hand in who picks up.

So I guess that's what the question is. It kind of reads like it'll be prepared initially, but not continuously. Let's see. Maximum disability service shall not apply during the times of power outage. It Yes, it has that, but we just need to adjust the runtime. Yeah, well, so I've got it on there twice, really. For the generator usage, we need to limit the, or figure out what is a reasonable run time and then air quality that's put down.

If there's 300 or so generators running, the air pollution can go up. This won't be a big deal because, I mean, you know, that's our flexibility.

And that's why. Not just Yeah, the noise is great.

And property shall comply with USA. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, new source performance standards, and SPS for at least tier four emission standards.

Perfect. So a food factory in Shelbyville. They have to have EPA regular testing, NSP, and everything else for the whole factory. They're on a cycle to verify each one of these items. Air quality, run time. If they're outputting more than what we allowed them in the notes, then they have to pipe it down. Which is, you know, these emissions that they've included and the ones Steve...

How often should this testing take place? Yearly?

Half a year?

On that, I have never done it. I've worked somewhere that has it done. They have all three agencies on site. They give them an office there. And this is in Shelbyville. And they monitor.

They monitor all the time?

Well, yeah.

I like that.

Yes. Now, this is a food business. Right. I understand. But either way, it is. They have USDA, EPA.

So, EPA is handling any kind of hazardous waste, which is what I have on some of my notes.

Any kind of batteries, anything that is refrigerant. It's built-in payment.

I've went in and serviced a lot of built-in payments in some of the systems that could have any kind of leakage. They monitor every bit of that consistently on a cycle. They have a full list they go through, and once they get done with that one, they go back through and continue to monitor that. And then same thing, USDA does their part, EPA does their part, and then they have whatever that is.

I don't think that those agencies will put something on a site like this. They might, but I don't think they will.

Well, put them on a three-month cycle.

Well, that's what I'm thinking. Every quarter, every six months. But there needs to be, we need to have a schedule for testing.

well one thing i will say is i do think the manufacturer is covering their fees they're you know I know for a fact USDA is not volunteering that much payroll.

Well, I'm sure.

In their case. So with that being said, you know, whatever testing that has to be maintained, either we could require the government agency or I guess they could hire an engineer that continuously provides that.

That's where that $150,000 that Hill County comes up with requires is to pay those fees. one of our goals should be that this cost the county nothing right oh yeah you know that to me that's one of the main goals right so i think every quarter would be good at least every quarter I like that one. We did water and sewer. I'm just kind of going through this. You answer with what you've got over there, you and Randy. The use shall not be served by public water supply. We talked about that, talked about them doing well.

We really need to look into that.

I'll look into that. I'll talk to you about it. I'll talk to you about it. That's very important.

How do we find out the size of the pocket? Do they have a map we can backtrack? Okay. How are we going to know how far?

If you dig a well on your property, it's a mile high, Randy.

I'm thinking so. That's her residential.

Yeah.

I'll call. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Now, one of the things, and we talked about the testing there, but you hear about the cooling. Someone sent me something about that using something other than water to cool but everyone I've seen and read about is cool by water and It's a closed loop system And the wastewater from these things

probably a little worse, a lot worse wastewater.

Any testing we have done, I'm not sure to be done every quarter.

Or maybe more often than that it is on the same same thing with not just the hazardous materials that is coming out of it. So if they're using the water and recycling like it's Amanda's got in our report here. So if you look under Section 2 E, description of the amount of portion or water withdrawn that will be recycled or discharged and by what that means. So it's going to either go to our sewer plant or through a retention pond into a stream.

We don't have a sewer plant.

You're right. So it's not going to be an option here.

It's not going to be an option here. They're going to have to build their own wastewater treatment plant. Correct?

Yeah, we don't have a sewer plant.

For the discharge, right? Yeah, the discharge at the different plants that are worked out, they collect the rainwater at the very end of the ditch and get samples of it, see how much sediment is coming through that ditch. If it has more than a certain amount of buildup or filtration, when they pull out of it, the ditch gets completely poured out, the geotextile fabric gets changed underneath it,

And you service the whole ditch consistently. And they do it, I would say, year to two-year cycle.

But with this, if it's quarterly tested, I don't know. It depends on how much metal or chemicals come out of there.

A doctor's job says, in video, Everybody tests for this, but nobody tests for this. And this is what's going to get you. Right. The forever chemicals and all that kind of stuff. Right.

And so... Do we know also what's going to be a good issue in pressing the water? Do we know if they're going to be able to clean it?

I mean, I don't know if they're going to be able to clean it.

Well, it could be lithium for battery systems, refrigerants, sometimes PFSAs containing fire suppression chemicals. Which, what is it? I don't know.

I mean, if it is.

I don't know. They tested the same thing.

They have left part of the factory January. Right side gets it's okay.

All right.

In defense of the AI data center technology, every vehicle out there in the parking lot has a closed-loop cooling system. So they may actually be able to come up with a closed-loop cooling system that works. So we have to think about What are the dimensions of this going to be? It may take a building with radiators or radiators bigger than the actual data equipment facility itself. So there is a notation in here that any energy generation system designed and used to supply power, which has nothing to do with cooling right now, that's paragraph H. or nuclear solar wind fossil fuel or nuclear energy generates shall not be considered part of the data center. Such systems shall be considered a separate use and shall be approved in accordance with the zoning regulations applicable to that use. So we have to think about this as a separate approval. is basically what we're saying here. You know, it may be on the very same parcel, which it probably would have to be, but we're going to have to address the power supply separately from the actual facility itself, as this language indicates to me. H. H. Paragraph H. H-2.

I guess you could do the same thing for stormwater, essentially. You know, if you move in here, you only get two retention ponds, or, you know, or one retention pond this size, and that's all you need. Otherwise, you have to come back in front of this.

Question.

Mm-hmm.

The ponds, are they lined? See, in Florida, of course, that's a different soil. That's a sandy soil. But in Florida, when you dig a lagoon for a dairy, you have to line that lagoon, or you have to concrete it. Now, we've got concrete logs, and we've got concrete.

We just dump it on the ground. I'm just curious if they require that. This goes to Rachel Fraser. Now, this is about...

as something before it gets to the pond i don't know the exact function of it but i do know that it went by the time they dump the water it still has some residue in it but it's not that bad i don't know i know there are large tanks and i have not really figure it out exactly how that operates.

If it's a retention pond that allows the water to go back into the earth as opposed to a settling pond that is actually to catch stuff like Tyson Foods over there, their plant, all those settling ponds outside are lined.

They do have that on there.

I've pulled the pumps out of them so many times. Even this new facility where 84 lumber was, they put a liner in that pond. Do you remember why that had to be done?

To make it hold.

It was getting rid of water too quick. Yeah.

Oh, okay, okay.

I tried.

I remember that. That's for fire protection.

It's a water supply pond is what that would be.

That's another question.

Yes, sir.

I want to talk about, are these data centers required to have fire protection?

You mean fire suppressant on the inside? I'm thinking, yeah, I'm going to say that's automatic in any.

Okay.

Yeah.

A lot of the area in Calgary County would not supply it.

That's where connecting to public water comes in. I figure you're going to have to let them connect an inch and a half or two inch line for bathroom facilities, but nothing beyond that.

Right, that's what I'm saying. So they would have to build their own tank and everything.

Well, that's what most of the factories do, don't they? Don't they have their own?

Home Depot does. There's tanks right there.

I know around here, but I don't know. In Rutherford, there's a lot of it don't. They're hooked directly to the water supply. But there's big enough lines.

I'll be honest with you. You look at what they're talking about building, if it happens here, we really don't have a water source that'll supply it. That's why you and I were talking earlier about these counties along the Tennessee River that don't have zoning. That's where they need to go.

That's probably where they're going to win.

Like I said, we don't have a...

also did this lady get a chance to say anything i think she showed up a little late no i'm sorry public comment period passed and you showed up i didn't see her i just i snuck in i was late i'm sorry about that um y'all are so very thorough so you've covered a lot of stuff that i had concerns about some of these ai data centers or AI services basically are used for illegal purposes. And so I would just hope that if we're going to let a company like, I know there's the company that owns the processing and then there's the AI center that operates there. But for example, there was a lawsuit I found information about on the WSMU website back in March where three young folks had pictures taken And people used those with the AI to make inappropriate images and distributed them. And so obviously, that's not legal. If you had a graphic designer who had a machine, because people think it's different because it's a machine, it's not. It's a tool. It's your tool. You need to be able to control it. So if you had a graphic design shop at the front, and you had a machine, and you said you can put $5 in and tell it what you want, but it was putting out that, we wouldn't let that go, right? I mean, that would be illegal. any company that's gonna operate out of it would have to, you know, I feel like the law is a little bit behind federally on this sort of thing, but I'm not really. So a lot of people . Yeah.

I would like to comment on that. And that's all very interesting, very factual that it's happening. But those are actually areas of law enforcement. You have to understand our duty as the County Regional Planning Commission is to control land use. It's the use of our land and properties. So that's why we actually just are looking at the physical aspects of it but there's plenty of laws on the book and we don't make laws we cannot make a law tennessee state legislature can but not coffee county government but those those are criminal activities that i know they're getting there i'm sure there's a lot of that going to get cracked down in the very near future there's no reason to it's a point well taken please ma'am did you get that down cindy please I can't write very delicate.

Okay, we got we got through power supply. Did we not? The emergency management. I've looked through this.

I'm glad you brought just that word right there. We probably in the next meeting need to have Wade Evans, our EMA director. He probably needs to sit in, and maybe he's got some stuff to think about. Yeah, I'll try to get him.

Talks about generators.

Operation of such generators.

Paragraph three.

Well, this is...

It's not in our draft. Okay, okay.

I don't know if you got a copy of that or not.

Oh, this is Nashville.

Yeah, this is what the legislature is looking at. It says here that they cannot use a limit to no more than 72 hours consecutively.

So they've addressed run time.

Right. If they have an emergency, they can't run no more than seven to eight. That's three, four days.

Right, and that's what means people just heard that we should put a cap on it. Right. So we just didn't make a decision on how long. Yeah. But we should definitely have that in there someday.

Yeah. as it is sitting next to an air conditioner. So we'll remember that the next time.

How could that possibly be?

Another thing I saw in here I thought was interesting, for the building itself, If it's towards a public right-of-way or a partial zone, a non-industrial zoning district shall be constructed of brick or stone. We've got that right here.

Okay, is that already in there? That is. Let's skip emergency management until our emergency management guy gets here at the next meeting. And let's go to aesthetics since Randy brought it up. And they give you three types, and I'm not a builder, but Art Deco, Neoclassical, and Greek Revival style. I guess that all looked good in Coffey County, wouldn't it?

I've never seen any of them on the site.

I don't know.

We'll let Kirk decide. Decent.

Yeah, Kurt's over there thinking Yeah, they're gonna have this meeting and then after it's over with, it's all gonna fall on me.

I mean, it does say they have to submit architectural plans. So with that being said, you know, it's gonna, I guess be drawn to site by an architect. That's right.

And it has to be approved by me.

Must be Junon's listening device.

Could be.

Could be. Uh...

Because our microphones are in front of our faces, so not next to an air conditioner. Right. Sounded pretty good, huh?

Are you guys good with aesthetics?

I didn't really have anything. No, and it's going to come before us. Parking is pretty self-explanatory. Severability. the repealer, codification, and mayor, I did change Section 7 to go from effect five days after adoption to immediately on passage.

You were talking about the, I may have to back up just a little bit. Okay. I also noticed on this one here, There should be no light trespass from the site onto surrounding properties, including right-of-ways and stuff. So is that? I'm just. Yes, I do. Because they didn't use it, did they? Right.

Kurt, you're free to go if you need to go do something. You're very welcome. I'll let our two county employees take off.

Thank you all for being here.

I'm sorry.

Okay. No, no. We'll heed everything you're saying. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Y'all have been so thorough. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

With Randy's comment to the light pollution, definitely. You've got that on there. Outdoor lighting for security at these sites can be intense. Consider full cutoff fixtures, lumen limits at property lines, and curfew dimming. Yeah. That's, I guess.

That's the thing, yeah. Like I said, I was just looking through that page. Mm-hmm.

And I got the summary of considering full cutoff fixture, lumen lights at property line, curfew dimming from other counties or states that have enforced that.

And hopefully, with the type of buffer that we're going to have and the fact that that building is only going to be 35 feet tall, hopefully that will eliminate quite a bit of that. So as I see it, correct me if I'm wrong, our major issue Number one is financially. We need to have some type of fee, some type of ongoing investment from that company into our county. We need to have a decommissioning bond, however that can be written. And I'm sure Amanda's familiar with that. We're going to do most all of the testing, whether it be environmental. Noises environmental to every quarter. Correct. Is that what you said? That's why you guys? Yeah. Yes. We're going to have a say. So in what company? What company they hire? We don't want one of those companies that rubber stamp everything. And we need to figure out the size. And if we can limit the size, you're going to figure out the water situation. I'll get a hold of about the wells.

Get a hold of TDAC and see what I'm finding out about wells. Like I said, I know they have a, for you to do a list, to do a well, you have to give a TDAC and get a permit. because they have to keep records of all the wells, keep track of them. You can actually go on their website and actually get a list of wells for each county.

And one of the biggest issues I think that we've got here is environmental. noise, wastewater. And we didn't even mention the fact that this has an effect on wildlife. It definitely has an effect on wildlife. And I don't know where we find testing and all of that. And I don't know if there is any.

You've got to remember that we've already got in this draft that it will be located in M2. It's in this draft and we all got to remember where we say M2 must be located. So they have to be taken into consideration.

Whoever from the state that decided that M2 belonged inside the urban growth boundaries gave a lot of counties a way out if they use it. You know what I mean? But I know it's in the Bedford County code, just like it is in ours. Uh. You got something else you want to bring up?

Randy not that I can think of.

Covered.

I would like to get something. finished on the 16th. I don't know if we can.

Well, if we do it, remember, amending the zoning resolution requires the public hearing, which must be advertised at least 15 days prior to. So the next full commission meeting is the 23rd. So if you do something on the 16th, that means only in the July or August meeting could we actually. Let me look at the schedule.

I didn't think they usually have a July meeting.

don't think we will as long as we get our budget passed at this next one because and i think we'll get there i think we're close enough on that yeah that's that's exactly what we want to do what this is all about we have to get our get all our notations made, and then prepare a final draft for your approval first, then moves to the full commission.

I noticed here, too, I know we got – I'd like to hear real quick about the noise. Can you hear it? The notice impact assessment shall be required as part of the zoning permit application and shall be assessed at a distance of 500 feet from the property line onto the partials.

But we have a whole thing of noise there. And Randy, I think we're going to, I mean, everything in our middle, I think, we have to report.

The Planning Commission has a regular meeting scheduled on the very same day as the next full Commission meeting, the 23rd just FYI.

Yeah we have one the 16th and the 23rd. And I don't know what's on the agenda for the meeting on the 23rd.

Me neither. We'll find out. Yeah, it's not out.

Could you combine what we talked about today with her draft?

Yes. Mine covers a lot of the pointers we discussed, but I'm going to use some of theirs based on, like we said, we will limit the sizes. We'll utilize some of this right here. Same thing as we said about the light pollution.

that's okay isn't it mayor yes we have a July 14 meeting full commission so if we could get this but none in August if we could get this passed

at our even at our 23rd meeting would we have enough time no no you have to get it passed on the 16th yeah i think it'd be hard to it's possible but um and then we don't have an august meeting and you know we will have If you can get something put together on the 16th, that'll give us time to advertise the public hearing and get it on the July meeting.

For sure. We also got more about the times running for the generators and stuff. That's how she got that on there. Yep. We just talked about the times you can do it.

Generator run time limits.

I'm going to send it to either one of you guys.

Annual run time.

You just have to spread out laterally if they can't go horizontally or whatever, if they can't go vertical. You guys about through, I'll cut off the... I think we're done. Get the microphone.