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An Ordinance Amending a Temporary Moratorium Established by Ordinance No. 23-1831 and Ordinance No. 25-1969
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WHEREAS, the Village of Romeoville (“Village”) has the authority to adopt ordinances pertaining to the public health, safety and welfare regulating private and public property; and
WHEREAS, the Village has for the past twenty five years has experienced extensive development of distribution facilities within property zoned and classified within the Village’s PB Planned Business Zoning District and similarly sized and purposed facilities within the Village’s M-1 and M-2 Zoning Districts; and
WHEREAS, Village staff has reviewed and analyzed the buildings developed within that time frame, and has determined that that such development has predominately consisted of large sized buildings in excess of 200,000 square feet in area; and
WHEREAS, Village staff has further determined that a significant potential exists for the development of data centers within properties located within the Village’s PB, M-1 and M-2 zoning districts, where data centers are defined to include but are not necessarily limited to those facilities defined as such in 20 ILCS 605/605-1025(c) along with all facilities primarily, predominantly or substantially engaged in cryptocurrency mining, defined herein as the operation of specialized computer equipment designed, intended or focused on the solving of algorithmically generated equations, problems or puzzles to produce blockchain-based currencies, including but expressly not limited to currencies such as Bitcoin; and
WHEREAS, in the absence of further refinement to the regulations governing development within the PB Planned Business Zoning District and the M-1 and M-2 Zoning Districts, the potential exists for the continuation of the development of buildings within such districts to be predominately larger buildings in excess of 200,000 square feet in area and/or to be data centers; and
WHEREAS, the development of bui...
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