City Council, June 17, 2026
Denies Municipal Curative Amendment for data centers, 2-4
What happened
Allentown City Council approved Bill 20, a zoning ordinance amendment creating a special exception use category for data centers in the IG and IM industrial districts with a 200-foot minimum setback, on a 4-2 vote (Gerlach and Santos dissenting), after first rejecting a competing…
- Jurisdiction
- Allentown, PA
- Governing body
- Final authority
- Date
- June 17, 2026
- Decisions
- 19 zoning decisions
- Outcome
- Denied, 2-4
Projects in this meeting (1)
A project bundles every related decision, across hearingsBill 20, data center zoning
Approved 4-2Meeting Summary
Allentown City Council approved Bill 20, a zoning ordinance amendment creating a special exception use category for data centers in the IG and IM industrial districts with a 200-foot minimum setback, on a 4-2 vote (Gerlach and Santos dissenting), after first rejecting a competing…
Key Decisions (19)
Motion to suspend rules to add municipal curative amendment to agenda
Contract with Urban Design Ventures LLC (R70)
Cooperative contracts for Informative Technologies (R71)
Motion to table Bill 20 pending curative amendment vote
Municipal Curative Amendment for data centers
Development Activity (1)
2401 West Emmaus Avenue Data Center
Industrial
Market Signals (5)
Infrastructure
Multiple speakers and council members warned data centers will significantly…
Commercial Demand
Allentown is experiencing active data center development interest, with at…
Sentiment
Strong public opposition to data center development dominated the meeting,…
Who Spoke (20)
On the record: the chair, 5 councilmembers, 3 staff members, the clerk, a witness, and 5 members of the public.
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