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The Middletown Township Committee’s September 21 agenda omits public hearings on a proposed townshipwide data center ban and zoning standards for a contemplated 136-home development on West Nut Swamp Road.

A township notice viewed September 15 said the data center hearing had been rescheduled to November 9. That notice and the ordinance’s original introduction notice later disappeared from the township’s public-notices page. A separate notice announces November 9 as the rescheduled West Nut Swamp hearing.

The published agenda instead schedules hearings and possible final passage for other measures, including a first-time homebuyer incentive for eligible emergency-service volunteers and updated recreation rules. Neither omitted ordinance should be considered finally adopted or abandoned based solely on its absence from the agenda.

UPDATE, SEP. 14, 2026, 5 P.M.: According to a notice posted September 14, the public hearing on this data center ordinance has been moved to November 9, 2026 at 7:00PM.

The Middletown Township Committee has introduced an ordinance that would prohibit data centers in every zoning district, with a public hearing and final vote scheduled for later this month. Middletown joins a growing list of New Jersey municipalities that have adopted or are considering restrictions on data centers.

Neighboring Holmdel recently adopted its own ordinance restricting data centers. Before the ordinance was adopted, the township received an application to construct a data center at Bell Works. That proposal, submitted under the previously allowed zoning uses, is now being considered by the township.

Ordinance 2026-3536 is not yet in effect. The committee is scheduled to consider final passage on September 21, 2026, following public comment on the proposed restriction.