Scope
Littleton Ordinance No. 22, Series 2026, would establish a temporary moratorium on the establishment, construction and expansion of data centers, under which the City shall not accept, process or approve any application for rezoning, site development plan, subdivision, use approval, building permit or other land use or development approval for a data center. It would exempt accessory server rooms, applications found complete before first reading, vested site-specific development plans and repair or maintenance that adds no floor area, electrical capacity or water demand. Under Section 7 a property owner or applicant claiming undue hardship could ask the City Council for relief, which the Council may grant, grant with conditions or deny.
- Geographic scope
- City of Littleton, Colorado
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- Littleton City Council
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Not enacted
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- Not adopted. If adopted, Section 5 would keep the moratorium in effect for six months from the ordinance's effective date, or until an ordinance regulating data centers in the Unified Land Use Code takes effect, whichever occurs first, unless extended or terminated earlier by ordinance of the City Council.
- Source document
- 21 October 2026
- Last checked
- 1 November 2026
Summary
On 20 October 2026 the Littleton City Council passed Ordinance No. 22, Series 2026, on first reading by a vote of 7 to 0, according to the city's legal notice of 21 October 2026. The ordinance would establish a six-month moratorium on accepting, processing or approving applications for the establishment, construction or expansion of data centers, with listed exceptions, while staff study land use rules. A public hearing and second reading were set for 3 November 2026. It has not been adopted.
What this does not establish
- The second-reading lines of the posted ordinance are blank; the result of the 3 November 2026 hearing was not known on 1 November 2026, when the official copy was checked.
- The ordinance would apply only within the City of Littleton.
Unresolved questions
- Whether the City Council adopts the ordinance on second reading on or after 3 November 2026, and in what form.
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: Littleton City Council page on littletonco.gov