Fresno County has no dedicated data center ordinance. In unincorporated areas a data center is treated as an industrial use, sited in the M-1, M-2, or M-3 industrial districts under the county Zoning Ordinance, subject to Site Plan Review and CEQA. Incorporated cities set their own zoning.
Unincorporated Fresno County regulates data centers only through its general Zoning Ordinance, not a data-center chapter. A server or computing facility falls under industrial uses in the M-1 Light Industrial (Section 843), M-2 General Industrial (Section 844), and M-3 Heavy Industrial (Section 845) districts. The M-2 district permits all M-1 uses plus manufacturing and microwave relay structures, and requires Director Site Plan Review before any building is erected (Section 844.6). Because data centers are not a named use, the Public Works and Planning Director classifies the project; discretionary approvals such as a Conditional Use Permit under Section 873 or a Planned Industrial Development trigger CEQA environmental review. Cities such as Fresno and Clovis apply their own zoning within city limits.
Building or expanding a data center in unincorporated Fresno County without required Site Plan Review, a Conditional Use Permit where the Director requires one, or CEQA clearance stalls approval and draws county code enforcement until the project conforms.
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