Committee to seek emergency council approval for outside air/noise review; Ohio State offers free literature review

The Planning, Vision and Economic Development Committee voted to bring two outside-review efforts to the full council as emergency items to accelerate technical review of a proposed Ashville data center.

Committee members said a firm identified in materials as GI proposed a scope that includes permit-data checks, a noise study and an optional air-compliance modeling impact review (Option 1B). The proposal lists Option 1B labor at $27,000 and associated expenses at $12,300, for a combined line-item total of $39,300. The transcript includes a separate larger figure for a full Ohio State air‑sampling study that the committee discussed at roughly $63,000; an $8,000 literature-review item included in the Ohio State proposal was described as likely to be provided at no cost to the village by Dr. Archer’s team.