Following a public hearing that extended over three months, the Wallingford Planning & Zoning Commission on Monday approved a zoning text amendment that allows computer data centers to be developed in a watershed district. The application, submitted by West Granby-based Charter Development Group LLC, owned by partners Donald Gershman and Eric Brown, sought to amend the town’s watershed interchange (WI) district zone to include data centers as a permitted use. The WI district zone applies to property east of Interstate 91 in the northeast corner of Wallingford. As approved, the modified amendment requires applicants to seek a special permit. It also caps the size of buildings on each parcel in the WI district zone at 250,000 square feet, with a maximum of 400,000 square feet allowed within the entire district. The town’s WI district zone protects the Muddy River, which flows into MacKenzie Reservoir. It allows for “low intensity uses and emerging technological development,” according to town zoning regulations.
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