The Seaside City Council is scheduled to consider adoption of an interim urgency ordinance establishing a 45-day moratorium on the processing and approval of new data center land use applications within the city, according to the published agenda for its Oct. 15, 2026 meeting.
The agenda item recommends that the council conduct a public hearing on the matter. According to the published agenda, the proposed moratorium is intended to allow time for study and development of appropriate regulations governing data center development in Seaside.
For residents, the item matters because a moratorium, if adopted, would pause the city’s processing and approval of new data center applications while officials work on formal rules. The published agenda does not specify what those future regulations might include, nor does it identify any specific data center projects currently pending before the city.
- Meeting: Seaside City Council / Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Seaside
- Date: Oct. 15, 2026
- Agenda item: Interim urgency ordinance for a 45-day moratorium on new data center land use applications
- Stated purpose, per the agenda: to allow for study and development of appropriate regulations
- Recommended action, per the agenda: conduct a public hearing
Per the agenda, the council is scheduled to conduct a public hearing on the ordinance at the Oct. 15 meeting. The published agenda does not indicate the outcome of any vote, as the meeting has not yet occurred.
Residents who wish to participate can attend the Oct. 15, 2026 meeting of the Seaside City Council to make public comment on the proposed moratorium, according to the published agenda.
Official source: the published record