Public Hearing: Consideration of an Ordinance of the Lewisville City Council Amending Article II, Definitions, Article VII, Uses, Parking Requirements, Supplemental Use Regulations, and Certain Distance Requirements, and Article VIII, Off-Street Parking and Loading Standards, of Volume II of the Lewisville City Code, Known as the Unified Development Code, by Adding a new Definition of “Data Center” to Section II.2.1; Adding “Data Center” to Exhibit VII.2-3-4, Non-Residential Zoning Districts,

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Public Hearing: Consideration of an Ordinance of the Lewisville City Council Amending Article II, Definitions, Article VII, Uses, Parking Requirements, Supplemental Use Regulations, and Certain Distance Requirements, and Article VIII, Off-Street Parking and Loading Standards, of Volume II of the Lewisville City Code, Known as the Unified Development Code, by Adding a new Definition of “Data Center” to Section II.2.1; Adding “Data Center” to Exhibit VII.2-3-4, Non-Residential Zoning Districts, as a new use in the Accessory and Warehouse and Storage Use Categories and Allowing Such use in Certain Districts With a Special Use Permit (“SUP”); and Adding “Data Center” to the Parking Requirements Outlined in Exhibit VIII.1.4-1, Minimum Parking Requirement; Providing for a Savings Clause, a Repealer, Severability, a Penalty, and an Effective Date.

This motion is scored as EXPANDS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 6.8/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, measures that increase tax rates or fee schedules, issue new debt or Certificates of Obligation, expand regulatory/zoning restrictions on private land use, or authorize unbudgeted spending expansions reduce an official's Freedom Score when voted YES (and reward dissenting NO votes).