The El Dorado City Commission voted on Monday to invalidate an ordinance petition that would have stopped certain types of facilities from being built in the city, but commissioners also voted to put a temporary ban on the approval of these types of projects. Commissioners heard concerns from the city attorney about a petition with over 700 citizen signatures asking the city to approve an ordinance that bans the construction of large data centers and industrial, commercial or utility-scale energy storage systems. The petition says that if an ordinance is not passed, the city should put it up for a public vote. City Attorney Ashlyn Lindskog said that, based on Kansas law, ordinance petitions cannot be applied to matters that require specialized training or experience. She said the reasoning for this is that the petition can contradict the city code.
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