Grays Harbor County, WA Data Centers & Crypto Mining: Data Center Zoning & Siting (2026)

Chapter 17.57 creates the Satsop Development (SD) district specifically to promote economic development through unique and specialized industries, and by its own terms applies only to the parts of the Satsop Development Park designated for more intensive development in the adopted Satsop Development Park Master Plan under § 17.57.010. Within that district, § 17.57.020(I) permits communication facilities outright, and expressly lists data centers first among them, alongside cell phone towers, radio towers, call centers, government offices, professional offices and co-location space; a data center therefore needs only standard building permits, not a conditional-use application.

Building-site standards in § 17.57.050 require a twenty-foot front and side yard for structures fronting Olympic View Drive, Tower Boulevard, or Lambert Road between those two roads, with no minimum yard elsewhere in the district beyond what the building code demands, plus a ten-foot landscaping strip along those same frontages. Off-street parking in § 17.57.060 is set at one space per three hundred fifty square feet of office or call-center floor area and one space per one thousand square feet of industrial floor area, with any other permitted use parked based on expected employee counts.

Dwellings, smelters (except as accessory to a permitted use) and nuclear power plants are prohibited in the SD district under § 17.57.040. Outside the Satsop park, the code names no other district's permitted-use list as covering 'data centers'; a facility proposed elsewhere would have to be reviewed under a district's general industrial-use categories instead.