After a marathon eight-hour meeting that started on Tuesday evening, the town council voted 4-3 to allow the tech giant to construct the facility on a 42-acre lot at the edge of town and help power the company’s growingTown council members David McGuire, Paul Mooney and Bill Semple voted no, but after a long stream of testimonies against the project — including one
But Heroux noted that the parcel purchased by Amazon, which is located behind a Chevrolet dealership and between two major roads, had specifically been zoned industrial so that companies could work with Warrenton officials to determine the best way to use the land. David Norden, a former town council member who sits on the board of Citizens for Fauquier County — one of the conservation groups that had helped rally opposition against the facility — suggested the data center would only open the floodgates for others like it.
Nearly 2,000 people signed a petition from the grass-roots volunteer group Protect Fauquier opposing the data center or a Dominion Energy substation on the Blackwell Road property.But tensions in Warrenton also went beyond that.