Wilmington City Council Open Meetings Ruling on Amazon Data Center Ordinances

1. Clip 1 · 0:16 Resident public comment Resident Public Comment transcribed from the official recording

   Summary of the federal court order requiring Wilmington City Council to renotice and revote on three Amazon data center ordinances after defective public meeting notices.

   "make the project legal. Jessica Sharp is one of the residents fighting the data center. She and her husband filed a lawsuit challenging the way that the city's handled the ordinances to allow the project. A federal judge recently ruled three of the ordinance the city passed did not follow state sunshine laws. >> They could not take action on a data center site plan until they repealed, replaced, or otherwise re ratified the three ordinances that were found to"

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2. Clip 2 · 1:00 Resident public comment Resident Public Comment transcribed from the official recording

   Residents and community speakers address Wilmington City Council regarding local water, power grid, noise, and zoning impacts.

   "that they will approve it as an emergency and take away your all's right to challenge this by a petition and ultimately putting it on the ballot for a public vote? >> I'm sure that if they think that that's a lawful option that they will consider that. Um, I say lawful though because, you know, you can't just issue an emergency for anything. You have to offer some sort of justification. And given the facts of our case and what was revealed um"

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