Marysville KS 12-month data center moratorium (2026)

Marysville, Kan. (Marshall County) — 12-MONTH TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS adopted UNANIMOUSLY by the CITY COUNCIL on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2026; the ordinance text was published on page 6A of that week's Marysville Advocate. OPERATIVE EFFECT, QUOTED: 'During the moratorium, no application to develop or establish a data center will be accepted, processed or approved WITHIN THE CITY'S ZONING JURISDICTION' — accept/process/approve all three, closing the gap left by a pause that bars only approvals. STATED PURPOSE, QUOTED FROM THE ORDINANCE: a temporary moratorium 'is appropriate as an INTERIM LAND-USE MEASURE TO PRESERVE THE STATUS QUO while the Planning Commission and city staff STUDY data center uses, HEAR THE CONCERNS OF CITIZENS AND AFFECTED STA[KEHOLDERS] and conduct a COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF POTENTIAL AMENDMENTS to the Marysville Zoning Ordinance before new data center development applications are accepted, processed or approved.' That recital does the work a moratorium's defensibility usually turns on — it identifies the studying body, the subject of study, and the intended legislative product. THE DEFINITION IS THE MOST COMPLETE ONE QUOTED IN THIS DATASET AND IS THE REASON THIS ENTRY IS WORTH ITS LENGTH. A data center is 'a BUILDING, FACILITY OR GROUP OF BUILDINGS OR FACILITIES PRINCIPALLY USED TO HOUSE computer servers, data-processing equipment, networking equipment, digital storage systems or related infrastructure for the STORAGE, PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL DATA, INCLUDING FACILITIES COMMONLY DESCRIBED HYPER SCALE, CLOUD-COMPUTING, COLOCATION, ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE OR CRYPTOCURRENCY DATA-PROCESSING FACILITIES.' FOUR DRAFTING FEATURES WORTH NOTING: (1) 'PRINCIPALLY USED' makes the use test dominant-purpose rather than any-presence; (2) the group-of-buildings language reaches campus configurations that a single-building definition would miss; (3) the enumerated inclusion of HYPERSCALE, CLOUD, COLOCATION, AI AND CRYPTOCURRENCY forecloses the recharacterisation defence that a workload-specific definition invites — contrast Poway CA AI data center ban ordinance, first reading (2026), where the prohibition targets 'AI data centers' and the definition was not obtained, and orange-county-fl (deferred), framed around 'large-scale AI data centers'; (4) THE EXPRESS EXCLUSION — 'The definition does not include ORDINARY SERVER ROOMS OR INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT INCIDENTAL TO THE MAIN USE OF A PROPERTY' — is the provision most commonly missing elsewhere and is what stops the ordinance from reaching every hospital, bank, school or office with a server closet. That question was flagged as unresolved on Irwindale CA data center ban ordinance (2026); Marysville answers it. FORWARD MECHANISM: 'During the moratorium, the Marysville Planning Commission may consider and recommend permanent zoning regulations governing data centers, as spelled out in the ordinance.' KANSAS CONTEXT: city zoning authority runs through K.S.A. ch. 12, art. 7; no express statutory moratorium ceiling comparable to Minnesota's or Wisconsin's is asserted here. expires_date IS COMPUTED as 12 months from adoption. ORDINANCE NUMBER NOT OBTAINED.