Pere Marquette Township MI data center moratorium (2026)

Pere Marquette Township, Mich. (Mason County) — TWO ORDINANCES establishing a TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS, adopted by the township board on AUGUST 11, 2026. ORDINANCE 162 received its FIRST READING on JULY 14, 2026. THE TWO-INSTRUMENT STRUCTURE IS THE NOTABLE FEATURE. Most moratoriums in this dataset are single instruments. A pair typically separates the ENABLING amendment \u2014 establishing or confirming the zoning authority to impose a temporary prohibition, and often adding a definition of the regulated use \u2014 from the MORATORIUM itself adopted under that authority. THAT IS EXACTLY THE ARCHITECTURE RECORDED AT Garfield Township MI data center and crypto mining ban (2026), where the Planning Commission first recommended a ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT AUTHORISING temporary bans and the one-year moratorium was then adopted under it \u2014 and where officials stated the reason on the record: municipalities that enacted standalone 'knee-jerk moratoriums' without that groundwork 'are being challenged and losing in court because they didn't go through the process that we went through.' Bellevue WI 12-month data center moratorium (2026) made the same choice in Wisconsin, adopting its moratorium as an amendment to Zoning Code ch. 500 rather than as a freestanding resolution. TWO MICHIGAN TOWNSHIPS INDEPENDENTLY ADOPTING A TWO-INSTRUMENT STRUCTURE suggests the approach is circulating among Michigan municipal solicitors \u2014 an inference, clearly marked, not a finding. The context supports it: Raeden v. Gibraltar MI data center moratorium challenge (2026) records Raeden Acquisitions and Cal Realty suing the City of Gibraltar IN FEDERAL COURT over a one-year data center moratorium, seeking review of their 100 MW application under the existing code. MATERIAL GAPS: the located source gives the adoption date, the first-reading date and one ordinance number but NOT the moratorium's TERM, any THRESHOLD or DEFINITION, or what the SECOND ordinance does. MICHIGAN COHORT: Garfield Township MI data center and crypto mining ban (2026), Corunna MI data center zoning ordinance (2026), East Lansing MI data center moratorium extension (2026), Ypsilanti Township MI electric utility infrastructure moratorium (2026), Utica MI data center moratorium extension (2026), Marshall MI one-year data center moratorium (2026) and Groveland Township MI one-year data center moratorium (2026).