Scope
DeKalb County text amendment 2025-0972 was an application of the Director of Planning and Sustainability to amend Chapter 27 (zoning) to establish a definition, regulatory guidelines and development standards for data centers in the M (Industrial), M-2 (Heavy Industrial), O-I (Office-Institutional) and O-D (Office-Distribution) zoning districts, county-wide. The Board of Commissioners denied the proposed amendment on 23 June 2026.
- Geographic scope
- Unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- DeKalb County Board of Commissioners
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Never took effect (did not pass)
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- 23 June 2026
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 25 June 2025
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
DeKalb County planning staff proposed text amendment 2025-0972 to add a data center definition, regulatory guidelines and development standards to the county zoning code for the industrial and office districts. The Board of Commissioners denied the amendment on 23 June 2026, so it is not current law. The county moratorium on data center applications (extended by Resolution 2026-1109) is a separate instrument.
What this does not establish
- Only the official Legistar matter record was opened; the draft standards were not read.
- A February 2026 resolution (2026-0341) asked staff to update the recommended substitute; the denied substitute text was not opened.
- When checked on 24 September 2026, the county's public Legistar page for 2025-0972 showed the status Public Hearing with no recorded action; the county's machine-readable record of the same matter, linked under Sources, shows the Board of Commissioners denied it on 23 June 2026.
Unresolved questions
None recorded.
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.
- Related, not a replacement DeKalb County (unincorporated): data center application moratorium extended to 30 March 2027 (In effect)
Sources
https://dekalbcountyga.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7732796&GUID=2E9B85F8-FEC2-4536-A21A-CED67508DF75
- Machine-readable copy of the same official record official data feed for the record linked as the primary source