<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2NAeY7_1Gvb84wa00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2NAeY7_1Gvb84wa00" width="1038" height="629" >URBANA, Ohio (WDTN) – Urbana voters made two major decisions last week in approving a ban on data centers and recalling Mayor Bill Bean. Those election results are getting attention across the Miami Valley, with residents in other communities wanting to follow suit.“I was super happy for Urbana,” said Springfield resident Melissa Rexroth. “I’ve been rooting for them ever since they stood up to Thor [Equities, the company behind a proposed data center].”Urbana is modeling what Rexroth would like to see for Springfield.“I started a petition several months ago to amend the Springfield charter to ban data centers,” she said.The same goes for Linda Moodie of Miamisburg.“The government has largely just been telling the people what they were going to do,” she said. “I think this election has shown a lot of people that we have a voice and that it’s time that we start to take back our communities.”On Election Day, Ohio voters rejected data centers in all 10 communities with bans on the ballot.“We were super excited that all 10 of them passed the measures with really high margins,” said Moodie.In Piqua, voters recalled three of their commissioners, including the mayor.“There was no negativity in their eyes at all about the data center, and that’s when I knew that we just have to fight it as much as possible,” said Pam Hawes, a Piqua resident. “They weren’t listening to what the citizens were saying.”Rexroth, Moodie and Hawes all say that enough is enough with these data centers moving into their communities, just like Urbana.“If you’re not going to do what we as a community expect you to do, we can turn around and recall you guys and put someone else in place that we think is going to do a better job of representing this community,” said Moodie.</div></body>

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URBANA, Ohio (WDTN) – Urbana voters made two major decisions last week in approving a ban on data centers and recalling Mayor Bill Bean. Those election results are getting attention across the Miami Valley, with residents in other communities wanting to follow suit. “I was super happy for Urbana,”...

Urbana votes spark ripple effect across Miami Valley

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