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The K-Nova story in source form. Every council meeting, ordinance, and document we have a public link for, in chronological order. More entries will be added here as records are received and verified.
- 05.17 / 2021 Meeting
First interest
First K-Nova rezoning hearing on the Jahn Farm parcel
Public hearing on a K-Nova rezoning request to enable industrial use on the Jahn Farm parcel north of Foxfire. Residents raised traffic, property value, wildlife, and rural-character concerns. An attorney delivered more than 200 signatures in opposition. The earliest documented K-Nova interest in the parcel.
- 11.15 / 2021 Meeting
Revised plans
Follow-up K-Nova public hearing on revised plans and landscaping
K-Nova representatives said they had submitted substitute plans, zoning text, and landscaping commitments. Residents discussed mounds, fencing, traffic lights, truck traffic on Durrett Road, warehouse lighting, and diesel smell. K-Nova's earliest landscaping commitments on the public record.
- 05.30 / 2023 Document
Annexation petition
Pickaway County records the Jahn / K-Nova annexation petition
County minutes record an annexation petition filed for approximately 267.59 acres from Scioto Township into Commercial Point. Petitioners listed as Eric Young as Trustee of the James R. Jahn Trust, Alice N. Jahn, and K-Nova LLC. Agent: Craig Moncrief of Plank Law Firm. Start of the official annexation trail.
- 06.05 / 2023 Resolution
Statement of services
Resolution 17-2023 — statement of services for the Jahn / K-Nova annexation
Adopted statement of services for the proposed 267.59-acre annexation from Scioto Township. Village committed to potable water, zoning, police, refuse, and street services. Resolution stated the village did not then have sanitary sewer capacity available and only estimated, without guaranteeing, capacity within two years.
- 06.27 / 2023 Document
County approval
Pickaway County approves the Jahn / K-Nova annexation petition
County Commissioners approved annexation of approximately 267.59 acres into Commercial Point. County minutes reference parcel L2700010053101 and state that all property owners in the territory signed the petition.
- 08.07 / 2023 Ordinance
Data centers permitted
Ordinance 2023-09 — data centers added as a permitted use
Council amended the zoning code (Chapter 1171.02(c)) to authorize data centers as permissible under the Limited Manufacturing District classification. Declared an emergency. First village action expressly making data centers a permitted use.
- 10.02 / 2023 Ordinance
Sewer code amended
Ordinance 2023-10 — cooling water and industrial process water
Amended Section 1042.05 to allow the Village Administrator to consider requests and issue permits for discharge of cooling water and unpolluted industrial process water into the sanitary sewer. Directly tied to data-center cooling questions.
- 10.16 / 2023 Meeting
Data-center site
Committee of the Whole — K-Nova attorney describes Jahn property as data-center site
K-Nova attorney Bruce Moore tells council the Jahn property would be rezoned PID like the property to the north and that K-Nova had been receiving inquiries from data centers. Moore says he might ask council to waive the third reading and wants the property rezoned by year-end. First explicit on-record link between Jahn Farm, K-Nova, PID zoning, data centers, and third-reading pressure.
- 11.06 / 2023 Meeting
Water, power, NDA
Council Meeting — water, power, and NDA questions raised
Dustyn Fox asks whether the village aquifer can supply 5 million additional gallons per day and what South Central would need to supply 50 additional megawatts. References someone whose company represents 'a large tech company in Ohio' who declined to speak because of an NDA. Bruce Moore tells council he intended to ask for a third-reading waiver but understood they could not grant one.
- 12.04 / 2023 Ordinance
Annexation ordinance
Ordinance 2023-11 — annexation of 267.59 acres from Scioto Township
Approved annexation of approximately 267.59 acres into Commercial Point at the request of Eric Young as Trustee of the James R. Jahn Trust, Alice Jahn, and K-Nova LLC. Craig Moncrief named as petitioner agent. The formal village annexation ordinance for the Jahn / K-Nova acreage.
- 12.04 / 2023 Resolution
ROW deed, 'potential buyer'
Resolution 38-2023 — K-Nova right-of-way deed near SR 104 and Durrett
Council accepted a limited warranty deed for approximately 4.308 acres from K-Nova LLC for right-of-way use on State Route 104 and Durrett Road. The emergency clause stated that the real estate closing between K-Nova and its 'potential buyer' needed to be accomplished as soon as possible. The 'potential buyer' phrase is one of the strongest evidentiary lines in the entire village record.
- 01.05 / 2024 Document
First filing
K-Nova files first 2024 rezoning application for the Jahn parcel
K-Nova filed a rezoning application to rezone 266.971 acres from Exceptional Use to Planned Industrial District. Became Ordinance 2024-02, which later died for lack of motion on April 1, 2024.
- 02.26 / 2024 Meeting
First public hearing
Public Hearing — first K-Nova rezoning attempt
M/I Homes' Josh Barkan tells council M/I wanted to maintain a residential environment for Foxfire and had been talking with K-Nova about mounds, buffering, and landscaping along the southern border. Residents raised health, environment, noise, light, air, public-vote, police-coverage, and electrical-substation concerns. Foxfire-area concerns already in the public record more than two months before the May 2024 approval.
- 03.18 / 2024 Meeting
Sunshine Law / TIF
Committee of the Whole — Sunshine Law concern and AWS-property TIF discussion
Jay Weaver tells council Bruce Moore had been contacting council members individually. Mayor Goldhardt agrees the developer was 'skirting around the Sunshine Law.' Solicitor Mattes warns that personal-device emails and texts about village business are public records. Same meeting includes AWS-property TIF discussion: K-Nova would still collect generated TIF money even if AWS, as a new parcel owner, activated the TIF. Strongest single source on Sunshine Law and TIF mechanics.
- 04.01 / 2024 Meeting
The first attempt
Council Meeting — Ordinance 2024-02 dies for lack of motion
On its third reading, Ordinance 2024-02 received no motion to adopt and a separate motion to amend exhibits died for lack of a second, so the rezoning request was denied. Public speakers included Ron Jahn, Eric Young, Josh Barkan (M/I), and Bruce Moore (K-Nova). Bruce Moore said the property would be used for data centers only, no warehouses.
- 04.01 / 2024 Ordinance
The failed ordinance
Ordinance 2024-02 — first K-Nova rezoning attempt
The first K-Nova rezoning attempt that died for lack of a motion. Public-record copy preserved by the village.
- 04.15 / 2024 Meeting
The waiver
Special Council Meeting — 48-hour resubmission waiver
Council waived the one-year refiling rule on the condition that K-Nova refile within 48 hours, citing 'extenuating circumstances.' The public record does not state what those circumstances were.
- 04.16 / 2024 Document
Second filing
K-Nova files second 2024 rezoning application within 48 hours of waiver
K-Nova filed a new rezoning application for the same 266.971 acres from Exceptional Use to Planned Industrial District. Filed within 48 hours of the April 15 waiver, as the waiver required. Application became Ordinance 2024-07.
- 05.06 / 2024 Ordinance
The code rewrite
Ordinance 2024-05 — Chapter 1143.04(e) amended
Adopted two weeks before Ordinance 2024-07. Amended Chapter 1143.04(e), shortening the resubmission bar from one year to six months and changing the council action window from 45 to 120 days. Council Member Wolfe's resignation was effective the same day.
- 05.06 / 2024 Zoning code
The zoning code
Chapter 1143.04(e) — Planning and Zoning Code
The local refiling and new-matter rule that was first waived for K-Nova on April 15, 2024 and then formally rewritten on May 6, 2024.
- 05.20 / 2024 Meeting
The vote
Special Council Meeting — Ordinance 2024-07 adoption
Council voted 4-1 to adopt Ordinance 2024-07 under emergency procedure, rezoning approximately 266.971 acres from Exceptional Use to Planned Industrial District. Geiger, Nungester, Weaver, Ratliff yes. Crego no. Standards permit data centers as the only use on the property and allow utilities to be aboveground where absolutely necessary.
- 05.20 / 2024 Ordinance
The ordinance
Ordinance 2024-07 — the rezoning ordinance
The rezoning ordinance itself. Approximately 266.971 acres bounded by SR 104, Durrett Rd, Borror Rd, and SR 762. Adopted under emergency procedure. The two-year ORC 713.121 procedural-challenge ceiling runs to about May 20, 2026.
- 05.20 / 2024 Meeting
The hearing
Public Hearing — K-Nova rezoning
Held the same evening as the adoption vote. Notice and timing of this hearing are part of the procedural record now under review.
- 02.02 / 2026 Meeting
Site plan approved
Council Meeting — Scannell K-Nova site plan
Council approved a major site plan filed by Scannell Properties #627 LLC on behalf of K-Nova. Wastewater plant capacity confirmed at 1.4 MGD; current flows 400-500K GPD. Confirms the K-Nova / Scannell relationship and gives baseline wastewater numbers.
- 02.23 / 2026 Meeting
Moratorium proposed
Council Meeting — moratorium and AWS NDA
Council Member Miller submitted a proposed data-center moratorium resolution, which was sent to Mayor Geiger and Solicitor Mattes for review. Resident Wasmus raised the AWS / Amazon Data Services NDA, signed July 2023 by the previous mayor with auto-renewal in July 2026. Mayor Geiger said she sent non-renewal notice. Council Member Nungester said the Durrett Road site allows data centers 'by right.'
- 02.23 / 2026 Ordinance
Gas turbines banned
Ordinance 2026-03 — gas-fired turbine generation prohibited
Prohibits gas-fired electric generation facilities using turbines in all zoning districts. No zoning certificate, conditional use permit, variance, or other approval may be issued for such facilities. Tied to data-center power-generation concerns; not the same as a moratorium.
- 03.16 / 2026 Meeting
Emergency resolution
Committee of the Whole — Miller's emergency moratorium resolution
Council Member Ezekiel Miller's emergency resolution proposing a 180-day moratorium on new development applications and approvals was taken up at Committee of the Whole, having been pushed to this meeting from an earlier session. Some community members asked for a one-year moratorium instead. The resolution targeted concerns about the proposed AWS / Amazon Web Services data center on Durrett Road and SR 104. K-Nova representative Bill Scala addressed council and signaled possible legal action if council moved in a different direction.
- 03.31 / 2026 Site plan
K-Nova II site plan
Major Site Plan K-Nova II — submitted by Scannell
Site plan filed for the 266.971-acre parcel. Eight 220,000-square-foot buildings, a 45,000-square-foot substation support building, an electrical substation, a water tower, a security building, and seven stormwater basins. The same plan the village's Zoning Administrator denied as incomplete on April 29, 2026.
- 04.06 / 2026 Meeting
Litigation signaled
Council Meeting — village signals possible legal challenge
Council Member Ezekiel Miller said publicly that confronting the proposed industrial-scale development was a step that may result in litigation. Press coverage the following day reported that Commercial Point was filing motions, advancing ordinance opposition, and exploring legal avenues to challenge the K-Nova / data-center project. The same coverage noted that neighboring Ashville had moved in the opposite direction, approving an EdgeConneX data center.
- 04.29 / 2026 Document
Site plan denied
K-Nova II Major Site Plan Application denied as incomplete
Village Zoning Administrator Jim Kuzelka denied the K-Nova II Major Site Plan Application as incomplete under Codified Ordinance 1141.05, listing nine specific deficiencies: unsigned and unsealed surveys; inaccurate descriptions of adjoining property owners and uses; missing setback lines along the AWS-owned property to the north; missing fencing details; missing floor counts and building heights; missing elevations for buildings 1-8; no proposed refuse-removal pad location; missing recreation and open-space sizing; and no easements or rights-of-way on the proposed site. The letter references K-Nova II's 'current threat of litigation' and routes further communication through Village Solicitor William M. Mattes. Delivered to Bill Scala (K-Nova II), Bruce Moore, and Bill Mattes by email.
Sourcing
How this record is verified.
The 30 entries above are anchored to 39 working source links: village ordinances, council and committee minutes, special meeting minutes, public hearing minutes, the village's YouTube channel, and Pickaway County records. Every PDF and video URL on this page has been opened and confirmed to load the expected document.
Two statements on this page are drawn from coalition research notes rather than from a single linked document. The underlying language will be quoted directly once those source materials are obtained:
- The phrase "extenuating circumstances" cited at the April 15, 2024 special meeting.
- The 48-hour resubmission requirement that followed the April 15 waiver.
Last verified 04.30 / 2026.
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