Alachua County planning staff outlined several 2026 state bills that will require code changes or policy responses including SB 182 (private‑school preemption in commercial/mixed‑use zones), HB 399 (expanded allowances for manufactured homes), HB 803 (private providers and glazing limits), new timelines for local review and a data‑center planning framework; commissioners asked staff to expedite local rules for data centers and review glazing and inspection impacts.

A resident asked whether the city has a plan for data centers and suggested a moratorium until the city develops public input, raising concerns about nondisclosure agreements, tax breaks, utility impacts and noise monitoring.

Staff will compare and update Selma's monument-sign height limits and stormwater standards and study how the town's current ordinances treat data centers and off-street parking surfaces as new development types emerge.

Experts at a California State Assembly joint hearing warned that rapid growth of AI data centers creates planning uncertainty, urging stochastic and integrated approaches to transmission, generation and storage and interim flexible connection strategies to avoid stranded assets and reliability risks.