Lochbuie, CO — Ordinance No. 2026-720 Temporary Moratorium on Data Center Facilities

Ordinance No. 2026-720 imposes a temporary moratorium on the submission, acceptance, processing, review and approval of all applications for any Town permit, license, land use approval or other approval for any data center within the Town of Lochbuie, and directs staff to refuse to accept for filing and to stop processing pending applications during the moratorium. It defines 'Data Center' broadly as any facility housing networked servers and IT equipment for off-site or on-site digital services; any facility whose primary use is storage, processing, management or transmission of digital data or support for cloud computing or AI services; or any computing or data-storage facility with electrical demand of 1 MW or greater, potable or non-potable water service exceeding 1% of the average-day capacity of the Town's water treatment plant, or wastewater discharge at or above 1% of the average-day capacity of its wastewater treatment plant. Continued operation of existing data centers is excluded, but expansions are subject to the moratorium.

Technical detail

Directs staff to review existing Lochbuie Municipal Code provisions and present proposed amendments to the Board before expiration. Binds the Board of Trustees, Town staff and any applicant. Authority cited: C.R.S. 29-20 (Local Government Land Use Control Enabling Act), C.R.S. 31-23 pts. 1 and 3, 31-15-103 and 31-15-401. Lochbuie is a statutory town spanning Weld and Adams counties; 'city' is the nearest available schema level.

Who is protected: Residents of Lochbuie, particularly as to municipal water and wastewater treatment capacity and electrical demand, which the ordinance uses as defining thresholds.

Who must comply: The Board of Trustees, Town staff, and any applicant seeking a Town permit, license or land use approval for a data center in Lochbuie, including expansion of an existing facility.

Key facts

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