Scope
The City of Homewood reports that on 22 June 2026 the City Council approved a temporary moratorium on new large-scale data center applications and expansions while the city studies potential impacts and develops zoning and development standards. The city describes the measure as a temporary ordinance and states that no permanent zoning regulations are adopted through it. The city's notices do not state the ordinance number, its duration or how large-scale is defined.
- Geographic scope
- City of Homewood, Alabama
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- Homewood City Council
Dates
- Adopted
- 22 June 2026
- Effective
- Effective status not verified
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The city's notices describe the moratorium as temporary but state no duration or end date.
- Source document
- 23 June 2026
- Last checked
- 30 October 2026
Summary
The Homewood City Council approved a temporary moratorium on new large-scale data center applications and expansions at its 22 June 2026 meeting, according to the city's meeting summary. The city says the pause gives time to study impacts and develop zoning and development standards, that no data center applications were pending, and that the measure is not intended to permanently prohibit data centers. The city's notices state no duration, so no end date is recorded.
What this does not establish
- The evidence is the city's summary of the 22 June 2026 council meeting and a city news item of the same day. The ordinance text, its number and the vote count were not opened.
- The city's 22 June 2026 news item is headed as an approval, but its body still describes a 'proposed' ordinance; the meeting summary records the item as approved.
- No duration, effective day or definition of large-scale appears in the city's notices.
Unresolved questions
- The day the moratorium took effect, its duration and its end date are not stated in the city's notices.
- The ordinance number and the size threshold for large-scale data centers.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
Primary source: Homewood City Council page on cityofhomewood.com
- City news item: Homewood Approves Temporary Data Center Moratorium — City explanation of the temporary ordinance's purpose; states that no permanent zoning regulations are adopted through it · 22 June 2026