This is not a political organization, a business coalition, or any single neighborhood group with an agenda. Protect Grove City is residents. All kinds of them. Farmers and subdivision families. Business owners and retirees. Progressives and conservatives. People who have lived here for decades and people who moved here last year. What they have in common is that nobody asked them whether a 300+ acre industrial facility running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week belonged next to their homes, their farms, and their neighbors at Story Point Retirement and Assisted Living.

No. Protect Grove City is not a ban. We’re asking Grove City voters to add the Community Consent Amendment (CCA) to the City Charter this November. The CCA doesn’t block data centers, or any large-scale heavy industrial project — it simply requires that any project that would be zoned Heavy Industrial and meets a threshold (50+ acres, 20+ MW of power, or 500,000+ gallons of water a day) make its case directly to the people before it can be approved. The applicant still gets their shot: they present their project, and residents decide. Some residents may personally want to see projects like this stopped entirely, and that’s a valid feeling. But this campaign has one ask: give the people who actually live here a real say. Let residents decide for themselves whether a project of that scale belongs in their community, instead of leaving that decision entirely to a handful of officials. That’s what responsible local government looks like. It’s not a no. It’s the community deciding for itself.

The task force is now fully assigned. When will City Council publish a schedule of task force meetings so residents can attend and follow the process?

Is City Council aware of House Bill 15 which authorizes data centers to build on-site power plants or fuel cells to support their projects without local municipal or township approval? Data Center companies can build whatever they need to generate power — and the city can do nothing about it once the data center has been approved per Ohio HB 15.