Corunna MI data center zoning ordinance (2026)

City of Corunna, Mich. (Shiawassee County) — data center zoning ordinance, drafted and first approved by the city Planning Commission and adopted unanimously by City Council following a public hearing at its regular meeting of Monday, August 3, 2026. OPERATIVE REQUIREMENTS: (1) SPECIAL USE PERMIT required from the Planning Commission before any data center may be established; (2) MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT 100 feet, with a waiver request possible up to 165 feet; (3) MINIMUM 250-FOOT BUFFER from property lines and roads; (4) MINIMUM 500-FOOT SETBACK from an existing residential dwelling not located on the project parcel; (5) NOISE MAXIMUMS; (6) APPLICANT-COMPLETED ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY. INSTRUMENT CLASS — a permanent standards ordinance, not a moratorium: it has no sunset and requires no follow-on work, and it channels data centers into a discretionary special-use review with quantified siting constraints rather than prohibiting or pausing them. TIMING IS THE DISTINGUISHING FACT: no prospective data center developer had approached Corunna and the city had not been in direct contact with any developer. Corunna adopted standards PRE-EMPTIVELY, which is the posture most moratoriums in this dataset exist to buy time to reach. A jurisdiction that already has quantified standards has no need to pause applications. MICHIGAN CONTEXT: adopted the same month as the Garfield Township (Grand Traverse County) one-year ban, while Michigan legislators debated a statewide data center freeze. The neighbouring City of Wixom maintains a combined data center moratorium and ordinance page, indicating the two-instrument pattern is common in Michigan.