The data center fight in Avon Lake, Ohio
Avon Lake has an active data center moratorium on this tracker. Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
Ordinance 26-60, an emergency measure effective on the mayor's approval Jun 23 and running through Jun 22, 2027, extendable once by up to six months. Bars consideration, approval or authorization of any data center as a permitted, conditional or accessory use, including zoning permits, building permits and certificates of occupancy, and tolls the clock on pending applications so nothing is approved by default. Excludes a data center incidental to a permitted principal use. Section 4 bars any data-center zoning framework reaching council until the city completes fiscal, infrastructure and community-impact analyses and at least two publicly noticed hearings
Source
read 2026-08-23
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Ohio.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Ohio briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in Ohio
- Athens — Enactedexpires 2027-08-04
- Vienna Township (Trumbull Co.) — Enactedexpires soon — 2026-10-16
- Boardman — Enactedexpires 2027-04-28
- Ohio (ballot measure) — Rejectedterm not documented
- Massillon — Expiredterm ran to 2026-08-14
- Lordstown — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
- Ravenna — Enactedexpires 2027-04-20
- Boardman Township — Enactedexpires 2027-04-28
- Painesville Township — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
- Weathersfield Township — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
- Twinsburg — Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded
- South Bloomfield — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Ohio (tax exemptions) — Enactedno fixed end — runs until a condition is met
- Plain City — Proposedterm not documented
- Grafton — Enactedexpires 2031-05-19
- Hubbard — Enactedexpires 2027-06-01
- Howland Township — Enactedexpires 2026-12-10
- Braceville Township — Enactedexpires 2026-12-02
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.