{"id":249,"date":"2026-04-21T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:45:06","slug":"going-to-court-after-zoning-appeals-rejected-data-center-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Going to Court after Zoning Appeals Rejected Data Center Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>April 13, 2026, Urbana, Ohio, USA. The results of the City<strong> of Urbana Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA)<\/strong> meeting regarding\u00a0a proposed data center site plan\u00a0in April 2026.\u00a0 The Urbana BZA unanimously denied an appeal from Thor Equities LLC, Urbana Investment Group LLC, and Highland Real Estate, accepted the city&#8217;s determination that a proposed data center site plan application was incomplete. This decision prevented the immediate advancement of a proposed data center project in the city.<br>The decision is part of an ongoing controversial debate by residents and outside parties leading the anti-data center crusade, Thor Equities and residents who need more information whether a data center build at the south end of the city. #greatfolksandgoodstories #datacenter #development<\/summary>\n<p>The next step will be for Thor Equities to file an appeal in Champaign County Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[28,48,41],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-folks-and-good-stories","tag-champaign-county-ohio","tag-common-pleas-court","tag-data-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidwgreenlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}