File #: 2026-0070    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: To Council
File created: 2/12/2026 In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: Final action:
Title: Request for Acceptance for Second Reading and Adoption - An ordinance to amend Section 138-13.101 to add a definition of Data Center to Article 13 Definitions to Chapter 138, Zoning, and to add Chapter 3, Temporary Moratorium, Section 138-5.301 Temporary Moratorium for Data Centers, to Article 5 - Schedule of Regulations, to establish a temporary moratorium suspending the city's processing and acceptance of applications and plans for development and improvement of Data Centers, to Chapter 138, Zoning, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to prescribe a penalty for violations, and to repeal inconsistent or conflicting ordinances
Attachments: 1. Ordinance.pdf, 2. 022326 Agenda Summary.pdf, 3. Draft Joint PC-CC Minutes 020226.pdf, 4. 022326 Resolution.pdf

Title

Request for Acceptance for Second Reading and Adoption - An ordinance to amend Section 138-13.101 to add a definition of Data Center to Article 13 Definitions to Chapter 138, Zoning, and to add Chapter 3, Temporary Moratorium, Section 138-5.301 Temporary Moratorium for Data Centers, to Article 5 - Schedule of Regulations, to establish a temporary moratorium suspending the city's processing and acceptance of applications and plans for development and improvement of Data Centers, to Chapter 138, Zoning, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to prescribe a penalty for violations, and to repeal inconsistent or conflicting ordinances

 

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Resolved, that the Rochester Hills City Council hereby accepts for Second Reading and Adoption an ordinance to amend Section 138-13.101 to add a definition of Data Center to Article 13 Definitions to Chapter 138, Zoning, and to add Chapter 3, Temporary Moratorium, Section 138-5.301 Temporary Moratorium for Data Centers, to Article 5 - Schedule of Regulations, to establish a temporary moratorium suspending the city's processing and acceptance of applications and plans for development and improvement of Data Centers, to Chapter 138, Zoning, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to prescribe a penalty for violations, and to repeal inconsistent or conflicting ordinances is hereby Accepted for Second Reading and Adoption and shall become effective Monday, March 16, 2026 following its publication in the Oakland Press on Sunday, March 15, 2026.