A lawsuit filed by local government officials challenging the state of Kansas over its deal with the Kansas City Chiefs to build a stadium was settled Friday. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City sued the state over concerns it was losing local control, specifically asking to stop implementation of House Bill 2466, or the Kansas Sports Facilities Authority Act. The act gave the state authority to make deals with the Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals to bring their stadiums across the state line. In its initial court filing, the local governments said they would lose “power to tax, to zone and plan, to set and collect local fees, and to provide utility service through the community’s own publicly-owned utility.” Gov. Laura Kelly and Mayor Christal Watson said in a news release they “satisfactorily resolved concerns related to the Kansas City Chiefs Stadium project.” The unified government agreed to dismiss the lawsuit without prejudice, the release said.
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The city’s planning commission on Tuesday continued to polish drafted zoning regulations for data centers, also firming up plans for a public hearing next month. An initial public hearing on the drafted regulations is now scheduled for the Hutchinson Planning Commission’s Nov. 10 meeting, with the Hutchinson City Council tentatively slated to review the zoning package by as early as Dec. 1. The commission did not take formal action Tuesday on the proposed zoning requirements. As currently proposed, the city would define large-scale data centers as facilities having 100,000 square feet or more of space dedicated to data-center operations, including infrastructure.
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