Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

[laughter] I bet you could do it.

Yeah, we got Ken coming. So, he's got one here.

I need to see that the lights are blue. says he's on his way. Okay. Tell him he's got three minutes. [laughter] I've burned through a lot of

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I know. I say what's wrong with us? Yeah. All right. It is 7 o' I would like to call this regular meeting to order with the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible for all. Thank you. All right. Um, item three, we need to review and approve the January 26, 2026 agenda. I'll need a motion for that and a second. We need Do we need to put this on the agenda? No. Did we vote on? No. No, we did not. But we I told we don't have to vote on this. It's just the due dates of things.

We voted on Yeah, we voted on the actual meetings. This is just the perfect due dates for the materials. Exactly. With that, I move we [laughter] adopt or approve the agenda for tonight, Monday, January 25th. I'll support that. All in favor?

I opposed. None. Motion carried. Um item four, approval of the November 24th, 2025 regular planning commission minutes. Hopefully you all got a copy of those and we're to look them over. See if there's any errors, emissions, changes, misspellings, anything that need to be dealt with. If not, I'll need another motion. Planning Commission meeting. I want to I said for a meeting we had to approve it to a resolution and you didn't say the meeting schedule

it was. This is just the schedule of when things are due. Did the schedule. Yeah, the actual schedule. This is just the resolution. I believe we approved it. Not as resolution. What's supposed to? We're supposed to do a lot of stuff. They're all fancy over there. Too fancy. that Robert move of order. Not us. Never mind. Then I withdraw my All right. So,

do we have a motion to accept the minutes approving the November 24th, 2025 minutes? I'll move that we approve the minutes from the November 24th, 2025 meeting. Okay.

Thank you. All in favor? I opposed none. Motion carries. At this point, we open up the meeting to uh citizens for anyone's comments regarding anything that the planning commission should be aware of, anything you want us to know. Um and to um if you want to stand up, say state your name, the your address, and then tell us what what you want us to know. So

Jim and Tony, 555 Dancer Road Kelsey, good evening board. Uh we're here today to kind of review how the activities at Revel talk about the plan for this year 2026 as per our special use permit. Um, I did submit a copy of our complete agenda to Mariano. Did everybody get a copy of this?

No. get one. Okay. All right. Thanks. I have an extra thing. All right.

Uh so yeah, in 2025 we uh we have continued to learn. is still in their first year and a half and uh I think uh things went fairly well. We're still surviving. That's good. And um I I don't Is there any questions or any thoughts or comments about rubber one that anyone needs to know? Have you had any um complaints or comments or anything from the neighbors about noise or anything else? No, nothing last year at all. It was a good year and we get a lot of support from the neighbors. So 911 which is really nice. That's good.

A lot of I think the kind of community gather you know really accepted us and I think they appreciate a gathering spot for the families and um that seem to be working out really well on our end and I think neighbors that we try to stay in touch with too but think things are going well. We always keep our ear to the the the wind and see if they hear anything but we like everything. this big this our list of activities for this year. Uh again, a lot of horse activities mixed in with the the weddings and other events. Um but as you can see, it's a little bit further than last year. We still got our two major national shows. We got um two birds we call them, which is a mediumsiz show and four or five other smaller shows. But and I know you know this too, we do you know horse camps there. We have pony club that meets there now which again the the pony club out of just loves the fact that there's a place in in northern part of the country to go to and they wrote us a letter I think I showed that last year continue to really support us appreciate the fact that the township allows us to do this um so so we appreciate that too um but yeah that's all I had to say

right any questions from anybody here What is the Chelsea High School? That's the prime. I wondered.

That's that's our community outreach. [laughter] That's a tough one, but we got a lot of calls really requesting us to do this. We did do it last year. We were a little apprehensive about it, but we loved [clears throat] when two police cars pulled into the parking lot, one at one entrance, one at the other entrance, and all the kids had to check their keys in. And the cars were all valley parked for them. They could not get their keys back without checking in with exiting from to with an adult like more or less. But it made me feel much more at ease. And we had people on side by sides and golf carts just driving back and forth. They weren't allowed to go behind that first pond, so they had to stay close to the building. So, they weren't allowed to venture out on the whole 150 acres. So, it made me feel a lot more comfortable. I was like, "Oh, I've already had five teenagers. I don't need to after we kind of agreed to do this, they had a number of adults kids, but they come and go, so we were really nervous about that." And they actually left really early like you know like kids do. They come stand in the corner watch a few people dance and then they offer about a couple out there. [laughter]

So whose police car was there? The state police, the county sheriff, or the city of Chelsea? State. It was county and I think it was Chelsea. Oh, was it? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, we had no problems or anything. No, they were there before anybody even pulled in. So, yeah, it was nice. Good. I was telling them right away. Was there somebody there to keep the township supervisor? He was the one on the go. [laughter]

Thank you. Um, my only other thing I want to announce is that we are going to have our first bowl at Rebel Run. We're excited about that. First Brute Mayor is going to um we hoped full in March, no earlier, but we're hoping that it will be um in the middle to end of March. Yeah. So, we're have expected in May, but then that came back out. Last week what she made me do in the sub zero degree. We had to put three stalls inside the new part. Especially folding stalls, which was tough. Got it done right before the really bad. [laughter]

All right. Any other questions for the Dear Tonies? Thank you. Um, anyone else wanting to talk to us at this point about anything public comment? Okay. Well, I'm going to close that portion. Uh, zoning administrators report. Um, you should have got something that was sent out for um that was given to the board meeting. Mariana's not feeling well today. It's not going to go to so I don't know Bill we have any questions Bill might know the answer but I don't know

thank you [laughter] don't we'll just move on to the next

yes okay all right so let's move on to old business. We have none. Our new business. Um the the board had asked us to look uh get some knowledge regarding data centers because they're the hot topic this year and apparently they can be they can use a lot of water, a lot of electricity. They can be a drain on smaller communities. And I think um Dan, you guys put together like a little report. Yes.

You want to kind of go over that? Yes.

Whatever you want to do. following yourtorium on the data center issue in December. We have a memo here that's packet that contains some background information. What we try to do first is just understand what we're dealing with. So we wanted to start with a basic look at what are we looking at is the use by data or is a data center. So the first thing we looked at in our memo types of data centers and definition historically with many zoning ordinances and I double check just now I verify there's there is a reference to data processing data processing or computer centers or today and many communities have that because data processing and computer centers are a term that can apply to a very specific set of equipment and to house computers for a company. So working in communities where every state where they're specific data centers or a specific industry or specific manufacturer or what have you but as I think we're all aware in recent years especially in the last year it's been a huge round of interest hypers scale data centers so what might be called enterprise data centers for specific users [clears throat] and what might be called hypers scale data centers are warehouse size facilities advanced servers capable of handling massive processing works.

That's the definition somewhere else but gets to the point growing in popularity of cloud computing services and cryptocurrency mining and also with the current artificial intelligence that we're seeing. a more widespread application huge applications of AI which I'm not a computer scientist I don't ask really at all but just knowing um the basic level of that technology requires a huge amount of electricity and water that's why I think a lot of communities have concerns the scale of these places are large industrial that a lot of energy and water. What we can do is when you look at establishing some amendments to your zoning movements to to get out ahead of policy or feel like this company is nearby and maybe not so close by that are dealing with this definition. But there's definitions of examples from children from communities in Pennsylvania which seem like they've they've been dealing with data centers for a little while. They have some counties and smaller municipalities that have zoning that applies to these these uses. There's also a draft originally adopted but not quite written into zoning ordinance definition. Ultimately these definitions there's a lot of overlap between all of them and they also overlap with the explorable usage there still from processing equipment and computer

storage. The issue here is the scale that we're using. [clears throat] So now that we kind of have some definitions that you can consider with I guess one thing I pause to say is feel free to look at those and see if there's bits and pieces of these definitions that you want to take your own work to data centers and if you want to take a new definition that we defining use we then have to apply planning and zoning. So talking about processing storage um kind of a manufacturing of storage of microscopic digital stuff, right? So that's that's more of an industrial process than anything else. It's not really a commercial process where you're exchanging good between people. It's not an office use where you have passive work that involves, you know, more human input, not a laboratory. It's really an industrial use at the end of the day. Even if it's requires a few people, it doesn't a lot of heavy offset impacts smoke stacks and you know historically you want to think of us as it is an industrial use. So when you look at that what we wanted to do is first make a picture of what your master plan has to say about industrial use is master plan has some clear language where it's called light industrial or limited industrial that's been laid out across two different areas of the township. They're pretty small applications and one is kind of a long drive and then one is an area to the west of center road

in the industrial categories and less vacant or unimproved property. in farmland property that's technically based on that master plan designation but it's the total area is that that's where exhibit that total area is only 48 acres and even within that there's I think there's [clears throat] 33.1 acres plan zone with an additional 48 acres not zoned alive master plan for so that's a total of 80 some odd acres that area even less and so beyond that there's also issues with water and sewer availability of this a lot of fresh conversations about water if you're looking at a manufactur that requires a lot of water in building their equipment has to happen in data center. So I'm sure that's another issue that would be considered by potential data provider data center isolated in the area and it's currently planned for limited industrial active water if I understand it correctly. So what that means is there not a lot of today that could be [clears throat] acquired for a hybrid steel data center. That being said to get ahead of this issue I think it's a good conversation to have. I think you have to mind zoning and planning you cannot [clears throat] exclusionally zone you can't say that

any use is not allowed in the township and not such that [clears throat] keeping that in mind I would say that one tool that's available in there is that's available for data center development ordinance which allows a flexible application and I think our master plan allows that to be [clears throat] applied in various locations. One thing that may be of interest is looking at how these standards can be [clears throat] matured up to make sure that if somebody were to come in and want to build out a cohesive development to bring in a data center make sure you have robust standards in place I think a lot of other items on the checklist kind of get away from that at this point but just have a good time should be prepared Clearly something does come up light offsite light protection, sound protection. Um and then in some communities which Dana has been primary it's a robust standard broad sometimes sometimes outside anyway there are a lot of different potential standards to look that make sure that there's

different that kind of summarizes what you'd like us to look into some materials Yeah. Um, I'll just say I think this, you know, kind of approach to uh thinking and being proactive about this is still it's pretty new I think for a lot of different communities. um Lancaster, Pennsylvania has kind of the best example of um really complete standards that uh fall into every current that we've looked at. So for their column or their row of the table is complete across the board. Um the city of Mason, Michigan, that's you know some um standards that fall into categories that Lancaster is in. Um I think one thing that's worth mentioning with Lancaster are that they require kind of a lot of um mitigation plans um electronic waste plans like these research reports that would identify what you know what happens for kind of the impacts externalities that could come from a data center. Um, so it's not just kind of the physical site expander, but also the plans demonstrating that they they have a plan in place for every single thing that um, you know, may could happen with the data center. Um, so having those requirements is maybe something worth considering. It does it feels quite complete in just thought of um everything and have set requirements for uh applicants to demonstrate that they they know how to um address

um yeah review um yeah we're interested in hearing how you like this to proceed and initial thoughts about data prepar um the power so you think about the zoning amendment um make sure everything's okay. All right. So right now a bad setting light right

I will I will just quick searching for right now there is an allowance for data centers in the district as well I think that is but I think especially if we're talking about the larger scale just fall into So is the large scale or they have a certain naming that hypers scale name.

Okay. cuz I'm assuming that the ones that are like computers for like a business or that kind of it's small. It's it's encompassed in that business. It's not something that's just

Yes. There are a couple of industries specific to individual businesses and they kind of office aesthetic small sites small buildings and that's um I think what the original ordinance definitions

okay all right So what I'm understanding is large scale we say the hypers scale would be required to be an L um or some type of pod that would allow a listen you know I'm not sure as it seems now probably that's where you know it's the closest Right Right right the Yeah. And I and I'm assuming that we want them to have city water sewer thing. But

I have a question about that. I think Seline Township is a closed loop. Is that Yeah. So if they have a closed loop, what kind of sewer needs would they have? I conceivably could they be in the middle of without any municipal services if they used to close.

Yeah, I was unfamiliar with that. That's that's good to know. I know there's a interactive site that shows next round. I will be curious if they're pulling in pulling in from a large format well larger well. That's what I thought.

There's there's no municipal services or something. Right. Right. But isn't it isn't that proposed near like a a river or this river runs through? Right. Right. Right. So would they be pulling in the water from that? Probably from wells. I mean they're putting down a couple great big wells just to run their cement plant. So you would assume that once they're done with their cement, you know, if you got those big wells, you probably convert them to use your cooling. Yeah.

But if you have a closed loop, so you don't have waste water issues. that Seline one

everything cuz I mean once we we get something in the ordinance regarding the hyper what are we talking hypers hypers hypers scale um then we can you know talk about where you know they should be located what systems water systems and waste system systems and all that. Um, and then I'm thinking at that point it's just a matter of restrictions as far as like yeah like um you know lights

lights and traffic and ingress and egress and there's a lot of those are just like you said computer. Yeah. Did they employ? Yeah, that's it. That's it. Not typically. Yeah. We look at this through you know setback fencing buffer. Right. Right. Right. Once you read into this like energy usage, air quality, water usage, electronic waste, um things like that wouldn't normally live. Yeah.

Yeah. One thing I'll say about that, um there's you can kind of tell the the planning commission as you're all familiar with, we look at spatial issues and setbacks and the ways kind of blend into their surrounding character. A lot of time looking at site land drawings. Some of these things they're related more to kind of chemistry and sampling and testing. Um those can certainly end up in but they also sometimes can be overlap pretty heavily with state county and state. I think it's pretty rare that there's a problem with having those kinds of regulations yesterday or I know a community where um actually every community has what we call environmental performance standards about those environmental impacts and issues like dust and odor control and all those kind of things. Um the more detailed you get the more you may overlap with existing polic that are handled by the Eagle or the county health department.

Um, but that's just one thing to look out for. Make sure that whatever is proposed is not necessarily out of balance. In many cases, you're allowed to regul Does the state have anything regarding that segments that you know like like they did with window or like they did with renewable weather? They have certain restrictions and certain things that you know

I'll keep my eyes peeled. I know it's been such a huge worrying months or two. I haven't seen [clears throat] much statewide language about it. Yes, nothing standard. I think if anything I would expect, you know, culmination of where you know different places in Michigan are starting to export these things, but nothing you know like best practices or I don't know that they would put something out like that. Right now, we'll keep our eye. Okay. Okay.

The situation out there something what that was that was there was down and then there a lawsuit came up amongst the land owners. The last I heard was it was something didn't have any industrial industrial those are things that know

because they wanted that's why they didn't have a designated industrial area in their master plan. Yeah. That's why it's good. I think that money if you have an industrial usually category and zoning district limited but that and then the fact that there's industrial that's you can bring industrial into a plan unit development flexible way those will help provide some protection that but that is a good um issue like to look at some of the kind of things that we're all learning on the fly as these cases come up issues Right.

I would definitely know is probably the closest also example. So I think also one thing you asked about statewide policies the county has really good guidance on which I think we end up putting some of their

materials. We're not quite in the point where Michigan planning association sample or best practices yet but things are stec everyone. What is the insurance? You know, that's what I curious about. See the rest of us even know we're about 45 miles away or the insurance that we're going to have clean water and electricity in 30 years you know or you know I'm just saying because I don't know if the rest of you know ours have gone down in the last 10 years and that's that's

what I'm I'm looking at what insurance you're never going to get because everybody's going to be by that time

that idea is ideal. document do there's recourse for that and what that means for something like data center usage to do some research to find what that would look like I know in 202 there's four different four totally separate different that run north and You can sample water from each one of those oifers within a mile within 100 ft of each other as far as nutrients. And that's what I want to know is how far somebody else data or whatever.

Right. Right. When's it going to make it to us? Okay. Um, other questions? I mean, I guess what we you got to look at writing something up in the ordinance. I'm assuming like a normal ordinance, you're going to have your definition to begin with. Um, and then you're going to have, you know, like what is considered the paper slam paper

and um and and then you know we want to be in light industrial um and then you know would it be good helpful to articulate a goal like what we want? Yeah. Yeah. So maybe that won't fored or recognize that we have to allow right be decided. Yeah. Where it's located, right? And you don't want to take all the water and Yeah. Protect the natural resources.

Yeah. That's what I would say the goal is to protect the natural resources and minimize impacts on the center.

Right. Right. Unless you want power lines and everything else coming down the road, but it's going to happen eventually. But I'm just saying um statics got to be put in there too. Okay. So we got the definitions and then I guess just you know what we consider you know where we want them or where we would like to see them. [laughter] Okay, let's do that. Downtown Detroit,

I think. Isn't there a big one down in Monroe some actually? Detroit,000 acres out there. Why not there? That's what I mean. Okay. But yeah, those are the kinds of things. What do you want to see? What are the big concern areas, right? Natural resources and aesthetics, right?

And if there is a geographic range um on the one hand, where do you identify what uses you want? That's something that does become kind of a master planning and future land use exercise as well. See if there's uh language or or things we can adjust in the zoning ordinance that kind of isolate this to certain areas the district or certain certain limits across site. Okay. any other things we need to highlight like something to think about. I don't know if we can what we can do about it, but

yeah, you're talking about the concrete plan if something like that went in. Maybe there's not going to be a lot of traffic eventually, but the going to be a lot of impact with the construction with the construction, which is years, right? Right now, they're hauling 300 train loads of gravel in down there every day. Oh my goodness. Dang. That's a lot of traffic. [laughter] Lot of wear and tear on the roads too. Yeah. Okay.

Good thing about it is that facility over there by time was built and everything when they say a lot of people will work there. Yeah. forget the tax employees,

right? And then I mean just kind of the normal stuff like screening and you know lighting and that kind I mean your normal buffering buffering that kind of stuff. Those would be the normal things. Um they make a lot of noise vibration. I think they say they do. It's constant like Yeah, that's what I thought. I really, like you said, it's so new that really nobody's been involved.

Pardon me. I said you read a lot of different stuff. We read a lot of different stuff, right? That's what's true and what's it's a speculation. Y [laughter]

well when we come back next time on this I think we will have a look at more information about how source waste regulations are used elsewhere some of those more closely some of those environmental performance standards of Lancaster and then see where language that We'll look into different ordinance sections and

okay different ideas how this guy dealt with this and how this country dealt with this and then the moratorum is through six months six months. Okay. Okay. So, when does that end? When did when did you do the mortorium?

So, December June we use up that no that time. We might have to extend it since we're working on something. Right. Right. We've had several different townships contact us on that. Oh, have they? No.

Well, then once we get something together, we have to have a public hearing and all that other stuff or change. So, all right. That sounds good to me. Anybody else? Any questions concern?

No. Okay, great. Thank you. You're enlightening us, so that's a good thing. I don't know much about them.

Yeah. [laughter] Um, you're supposed to do a final year review. you can change your packet. Um it held what the planning committ um we updated our master plan had special land use and the safety plan. Review amendments for solar energy converting systems renewable energy agriculture tourism that is something that we haven't been asked to look at and I think that's going to be coming down the pike if that person comes in as a special use. Okay. At first I thought it was just something that they wanted to do like the the Russian church when they had their Russian festival. I thought it was a festival type thing and we have that um ordinance for that.

Yeah, we do have agurism but for them to to do something like a wedding. Yeah, it sounds like an event to do something like that. We're going to come in for a special because I think the property zed. Sure. Yeah.

They want to do it's coming down. Yeah. So if they come in, pardon me, I was ask if I may get some more perspective on and why that's there in the packet. Okay. Oh,

we were uh we read were brought into the loop by there is a specific looking at this um yeah dancing is folks that are interested in this topic. Um and I think you started to relate some of the fundamental right. Um, so we've been asked to have an initial meeting about the long plans there, see if there's a way to accommodate ongoing events through ordinance. Um, and I guess the request at this point commission would like us limited way or as much focus as you'd like us to use to look at that agricultural ordinance um more closely and see if that would accommodate what that kind of the initial look at that it looks like it may stretch beyond what tourism right

so I guess the request some additional research and present options expanding agricultural commercial tourism looking there are people here tonight like us on that tonight or look at that kind of internally focus I'm not sure we want to right if we haven't anything yet

right Right. And I think what I I like what we put together an original because it's definitely talked about it has to be agricultural in nature actually activities on this day. So, you know, I mean, so I think I think right now I think I like what we have, but again, it would not accommodate what they're thinking about doing. And if they decide to try to do that, then they're going to have to come over special use in their district. And then we'll have to look see what they're talking. They're trying to be down this road. So

yeah, I mean I don't we don't I don't think it's appropriate to change the amendment or anticipation for something. Yeah, I think yeah, I think leave it that and then when case by case basis because I don't know do they get is there they are they do have agricultural stuff going on site. Is that what's going on there? I don't know. They sell produce. They sell produce. Okay. At the road. At the road. That's it. But I mean, there's not like barns and a lot of animals or anything like that.

They've got a roadside stand. That's all I That's it. Okay. And that's allowable under Okay. Let's just put that off and see what happens. You never know. People change their minds. Figure out are see where the alignment is. Right. Right. Right. That is a special. Yeah. Pardon me.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. Down to reports now. Yep. That's it. So, let's go on to our committee reports. How about your board activities? Met. So, Thornton Farms finally got their second water tank in and we had quite a discussion at the last meeting as to do we would pay them the 200,000 that we said we were going to or do we not? Oh, okay. I don't know.

So, we're trying to trying to figure out whose whose funds they really I guess belong to. I mean, all along we've given them money for certain. Usually, you know, it's minor. Yeah. Or, you know, just just to keep it going out there. And so, I don't think we decided anything at the meeting. No, whether we're going to cut him a check or not. So, uh, yeah, I got an email today from Garden Farms and they would like the money. So,

well, they're done now. They are the water tank. Everything is is good. Okay. Okay. And they're building they're built out. It's all built up. Okay. Built out. We're not getting any more money. Is that correct? We will get our assessments. Well, our taxes, but we won't get We'll get our um Yeah, we have those two accounts and usually in May of the year based on you know how many are in there. Right now there's over a hundred in the new and 300. Yeah. Yeah. So, we usually get an assessment from them. Then they just write us a check.

Oh. And it goes into their accounts or two separate accounts. So, basically was it was it was for us to just in case something bad happened. It was set up in case we had extra before we had the fire authority. If there were fire runs, then this is going to help take care of the fire runs. Oh, okay. But now we have a millage. Right. Right. So, there's not much left that it could actually be spent on it because the township cost sewer pay. That's what I thought.

That's for the sewer, their water. I mean it's just just to keep it up so that we don't end up with take care of we have to take care of Yeah. Right. It could fall back on us. Okay. So, sorry. I'm not quite sure. What's going to hold up to? We don't want to give them the money to pay for their upgrade. Three of us thought that we should be giving them a check. Five of you. I know. Two. Three. [laughter] Well, we still have not.

You got Chelsea math or what? No. No. So, no. It was proposed that I go to the attorney and let him look at it. Well, that's my normal. I know. So, I don't know. I haven't heard anything else. Okay. [laughter] So, I guess we'll just send that to you. So, let's see what else went on. Um, oh, we own a landlock piece off of Trinkley Road in behind certain properties where

the township does. Yeah, the township owns a strip of land. Someone wants to buy it. Oh, yeah. I know. and it touches all these other people. So, I guess we're looking into it's the high school to the east of the high school. It's north east of the high school and north of Yes. Accept. Yeah. Before you get to background. Oh, yeah. It's right where that first drive is. Yeah. that comes out around the high school right there. It touches how many?

Oh, Chelsea High School. Yes. Yeah. North of Tren. Yes. And I think it touches seven or nine properties and one of those people wants to buy it. There some one of the one of the landlorders came forward. I think you have to put it out. Then you have to put it out to every one of them

and then you got to cover your cost figure out. But that's where we're at now with the survey and search and then the fun begins because then just everybody gets to either bid on it or we put a price on it and say this is it. Maybe we just rearrange the boundaries and let everybody know that put beer stance all the way around. make a pocket [laughter]

just for those seven trail I think. Yeah, it's landlock. So ah got it's mostly a lot of it small. Oh, so the only other thing is we we did uh go ahead and pass the poverty guidelines this year 26. What was that guidelines? What was this about the chart? Okay, there's a chart. Oh, okay. Because it's a percentage.

Gotcha. Okay. It's it's up and down with military and poverty and all that. It used to be one, right? Yeah. It used to be just one. Now all of a sudden that's all these percentages. Okay. Okay. And we do have a meeting on February 17th at 3:00 in the afternoon to discuss policies for the township because we don't have a policy. here on develop some policies. Okay. All right. Any questions for you question?

All right. Thank you. Uh Sun Bill February 12th, I go to Mason for learn how to write grants. Um dates of learning grant writing and where to get them from so county. Oh, okay. When did we have a snowstorm? [laughter]

All right. Any questions for Bill on any of these? No. Okay, I did not include any corresponding um at this point we can do our final public comment. Is there someone else that would like to address us? We do have one piece of correspondence that's in all your packets. It's just the final thing from that.

Yeah, that's correspondence. correspondence. That's my Okay. Final public comment. Name address. Thank you. Okay. As far as like data centers, has anybody approached the township that is that why to begin with? It was just a whole lot turn off. That's basically what it was for.

Yeah, it was proactive just because like you said, every trying to be one step ahead instead of two behind. Yeah. Seems like every day you open the paper there's somebody else want to send them something.

All right. Any other question? Yeah. If uh Christopher Leven pursuant to the um data center um one of the things that I was thinking about I used to live in my township and we um when I was on the planning commission there we had a lot of issues with the cement plant and so one of the things they were taking out thousands and thousands of gallons of water like at the minute cracked the freshwater aquifer which then led to sulfur on the underneath it contaminating all of water. And so one of the things that we put into our ordinances down there, we required to monitor the wells um around the entire property and we kind of went out in um concentric circles. So we were not only monitoring the water levels because we were raising concerns about like what happened to you know surroundings. um we required monitoring of the low not only for the water levels but also wanted to follow and so at the time we were working um profit in harbor uh the intelligence center to kind of help with that but just something to think about in terms of mitigation because I agree that things are always hunky dory in the beginning but then as things ramp up they ask for more usage it's just good to have a we require before they wanted to um go any deeper with we did baseline testing So we knew exactly where the water holders were at that point and then we said that the glasses would have to stop if the water levels were impacted at a certain level or if the water quality was decated. So just something to consider in terms of like it's not necessarily anything that will give us prevent from going in but there was some key there in case things were happening that were impacting the quality of life um for those in the

surroundings. So just something to consider. Um excellent. Yeah, that's great. We thought about monitoring wells. It was very very effective to the point where we actually were able to halt a lot of their lasting practices because it was just so negative impact and we saw the ponds also shrinking up. So the writing just wanted to go. Excellent. Well, thank you. Anyone else? No. All right. I'm over here. Second. Oh, everybody's second. All in favor? I opposed. Thank you everyone.

Stay warm out.

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