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The Kansas City Council voted to impose new zoning restrictions on data centers, revoking their by-right status and requiring special permits. This follows a similar decision by Loudoun County, Virginia, to eliminate by-right status for data centers.

The number of rejected data center proposals quadrupled in 2025. Separately, HUD proposed eliminating regulations on disparate impact in housing, shifting liability definitions to the courts following a Trump executive order. New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed exempting certain housing projects from environmental review to ease development processes.