Scope
City of Milwaukee Common Council File 251924, a substitute ordinance relating to a temporary pause in the establishment and development of data centers, is in committee. Its analysis states that it prohibits the acceptance of application materials related to the establishment and development of data centers for 1 year, or until the zoning code is amended to define and regulate data centers. Its recitals identify File 260142 as the intended zoning code amendment.
- Geographic scope
- City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Jurisdiction
- Local
- Authority type
- Local government
- Issuing authority
- Milwaukee Common Council
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Not enacted
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- The source page states no document date
- Last checked
- 5 October 2026
Summary
A substitute ordinance before the Milwaukee Common Council, File 251924, would stop the city from accepting application materials for establishing or developing data centers for one year, or until the zoning code is amended to define and regulate data centers. The file was created on 3 March 2026 and is in the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee, which held it to the call of the chair on 28 July 2026. It has not been adopted. The file's legislative history also lists a City Plan Commission entry on 28 September 2026, "APPROVED CONDITIONALLY"; the file's page status is still In Committee and it has not been adopted.
What this does not establish
- The ordinance is pending and has no effective date; the text described is Substitute 1 as shown on Legistar and may change before any vote.
- Clerk "PUBLISHED" entries in the history are not adoption; the matter status is In Committee.
- The related zoning amendment, File 260142, is a separate record.
- The 28 September 2026 City Plan Commission entry is a commission recommendation step, not adoption; its minutes note says a future substitute with technical language changes was discussed, which this review did not see.
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 Milwaukee: proposed data center zoning standards (File 260142) (Proposed)
Sources
https://milwaukee.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7941204&GUID=E80B164D-18C7-4BCD-A992-8772511E833D