From R.J. Fisher & Associates
Municipal Monday — Issue 12
Solar joins the data center conversation from two directions at once — a county text amendment for principal solar systems, and a water authority asking for stormwater relief because panels count as impervious surface.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 11
A data center proposal covering roughly 250 to 496 acres at the former Pennsy Supply quarry puts a specific project behind South Hanover’s overlay ordinance, while Windsor and West Hanover hold the hearings flagged last issue.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 10
Seven municipalities across three counties are writing data center rules in the same six-week window — Windsor, East Pennsboro, Hampden, Lower Allen, West Hanover, East Hanover and South Middleton — as the wave moves from drafting to decisions.
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A Certified Floodplain Surveyor Under Our Roof
Matthew Fisher has earned the Certified Floodplain Surveyor designation from the National Society of Professional Surveyors — what the credential covers, and what it means when a flood zone touches your property.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 09
The first data center land development plans reach a Cumberland County agenda — Pennsylvania Digital’s PAX-1 campus in Middlesex — while six municipalities across four counties keep moving data center zoning toward hearings and adoption.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 08
The data center ordinance wave hits its decision round — an adoption vote in Hampden, hearings queued in Lower Allen, Windsor, and Silver Spring — while preliminary plans for the PAX-1 data center campus land on the Middlesex Township agenda.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 07
Three legal routes to data centers in a single week — a curative amendment, a moratorium, and conventional ordinances heading to hearings — plus the busiest plan-review week of the series, led by the 205-lot Georgetowne subdivision.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 06
Data centers reached the West Shore: Upper Allen moved to initiate a curative amendment, the first in this series, alongside a sixteen-project pipeline week and guarantees released as projects finish.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 05
South Londonderry held the first adoption-stage data center hearing, with three more set across the summer and fifteen named projects in motion.
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Reading a Grading Job from the Air
As of the May 1 flight, New View Business Park is about 71 percent complete by volume, with roughly 69,000 cubic yards of cut and fill left to move. Here is how that read works.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 04
The data center story crosses from drafting into deciding: the first adoption hearing and the first moratorium land the same night.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 03
Three firm public hearing dates are now on the summer calendar as the data center ordinance wave shifts from drafting to scheduling.
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Municipal Monday — Issue 02
The data center ordinance wave widens to eight municipalities across three counties, with the first public hearings now on the calendar.
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