Scope
Johnson County Resolution 11-06-25-01 pauses approval of rezoning, subdivision, and site-plan applications, and issuance of building permits, for siting or construction of a data center in unincorporated Johnson County. The resolution describes data centers as facilities used for storage, management, processing, and transmission of digital data, including high-density computing facilities. It sets the end at 11:59 p.m. Central Time on Sunday, 8 November 2026, unless the Board acts again, and it allows an earlier end when Unified Development Ordinance amendments are finished.
- Geographic scope
- Unincorporated Johnson County, Iowa
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- Johnson County Board of Supervisors
Dates
- Adopted
- 6 November 2025
- Effective
- 6 November 2025
- Scheduled expiration
- 8 November 2026
- Ended
- 15 October 2026
- Completion condition
- The 2025 resolution set the pause to end at 11:59 p.m. Central Time on Sunday, 8 November 2026, unless the Board extended it. Resolution 10-15-26-01, effective 15 October 2026, replaced that end time.
- Source document
- 6 November 2025
- Last checked
- 25 October 2026
Summary
On 6 November 2025, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution 11-06-25-01. It paused approval of rezoning, subdivision, and site-plan applications, and issuance of building permits, for siting or construction of a data center in unincorporated Johnson County. The resolution took effect on adoption and set the end at 11:59 p.m. Central Time on Sunday, 8 November 2026, unless the Board acted again. On 15 October 2026 the Board adopted Resolution 10-15-26-01, which extended that pause and replaced the end time. The November 2026 time is the end printed in the 2025 resolution. It is not the end now in force.
What this does not establish
- The text applies only in unincorporated Johnson County. Iowa City and other incorporated cities are outside it.
- The pause covers those application approvals and building permits for siting or construction. It does not say an existing data center must close, and it does not count applications.
- The saved text describes high-density computing facilities. It does not create a separate cryptocurrency category.
- The PDF is a packet of many resolutions. This record is Resolution 11-06-25-01 only. The file's 23 December 2025 last-modified time is the packet timestamp, not a second adoption date.
- Section 8:1.19.A is cited as the existing heavy-industrial allowance. This resolution does not amend that section.
Unresolved questions
- Whether any incorporated city in Johnson County adopted its own data-center ordinance was not checked.
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.
Sources
https://johnsoncountyiowa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-12/Resolution%202025_2.pdf
- Resolution 10-15-26-01 packet later extension that replaced the end time printed in the 2025 resolution · 15 October 2026