The Aurora City Council is set to discuss both a temporary moratorium on new data centers and warehouses as well as a voluntary reduction in force plan at a specially-called meeting on Thursday.

The special meeting, planned to take place after the Aurora City Council’s Finance Committee meeting at 3 p.m., was announced Tuesday afternoon just a few hours before the regularly-scheduled City Council meeting held that night.

At the Tuesday meeting, city staff made their case for a temporary moratorium on new data centers and warehouse development by citing an increased number of requests for these types of developments alongside residents’ concerns with existing data centers and warehouses.

Chief Development Services Officer John Curley told the Aurora City Council on Tuesday that the morat

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