Faribault Daily News reports...

After helping develop the planning commission’s data center standard recommendations, the environmental commission is now recommending its own set of regulations. Its members said they wanted to include a decommission plan, and other regulations not included in the original recommendations to the Faribault City Council.

“We didn’t want to recommend our own until we saw the public hearing at the planning commission last week because we wanted to hear from the people. We wanted to hear what people were responding with and what people’s concerns were,” Miranda Lamb, an environmental commissioner, said. “Our biggest issues were the backup power and the decommissioning process.”

Council will now be presented both plans at its work session on Tuesday. The first reading on the city’s data center ordinance is currently scheduled for Nov. 24 at council’s regular city meeting.