Editor, The Recorder,
A consultant, Jo Massanari, who has written a book on data centers, and I wrote a very clear, very specific, very comprehensive data-center ordinance for the Highland County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors to consider in place of the document now in front of them. That alternative appears below.
We did this to protect the county’s people, lands, farms, waters, tourism and ways of living.
The document before th…
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