Franklin County commissioners had hoped to avoid a repeat of the 12-hour meeting they'd previously gone through over data centers. Well, Monday's meeting lasted 13 hours. (Because they began in the morning, it finished at 10 p.m., instead of 4 a.m. like last time.) Hundreds turned out all day to oppose two campuses being pitched -- one near Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, the other closer to Pacific.
Developers behind one of the projects told commissioners the county's proposed regulations are some of the most thorough they've encountered
But many questioned whether the area's rural character can survive that kind of development.
The Franklin County Commission took no action.
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Patricia Schuba is a Franklin County resident and member of the Franklin County Rural Coalition. She joined Chris and Amy after the meeting saying, 'People just would not leave.'
"We're really concerned about paving over farmland and putting [them],' next to where people live."
Listen to Chris & Amy's interview with Schuba here
Hundreds of fired up residents packed East Central College in Union yesterday for a marathon public hearing on two proposed Franklin County data centers
Hundreds of fired up residents packed East Central College in Union yesterday for a marathon public hearing on two proposed Franklin County data centers
