1. Sign the petition.
Patti Smith’s Change.org petition for a township-wide moratorium, reported past 4,000 signatures in August. It takes one click and puts your name on the record.
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Five things you can do today.
Pick one. They’re ordered shortest-first, #1 takes a minute.
2. Email Plymouth Township Council.
Send one short message saying you live here, you oppose the special exception, and you support a curative amendment moratorium. There is a template further down this page.
3. Ask your state senator to back SB 1359.
Senate Bill 1359 would pause hyperscale data center permitting statewide for three years, including the power plants built to serve them, and it reaches applications already pending. Ask your state senator to co-sponsor it.
4. Calendar the next ZHB meeting.
The 900 Conshohocken Road hearing is underway before the Plymouth Township Zoning Hearing Board. June 25 settled party status, and the applicant’s testimony began August 6 before a nearly full 750-seat auditorium. On August 17 the board voted to continue the matter to Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 7 p.m. and to move the evidentiary sessions to the Karen B. Weiss Meeting Room at the Township Building, 700 Belvoir Road, which seats roughly 200. Seating priority goes to the parties, attorneys, and witnesses, with a small number of public seats subject to capacity. The township will livestream and open an overflow viewing room at the Greater Plymouth Community Center. Public comment has still not been scheduled; the township says it is expected at a larger venue later, which is a statement of intent rather than a commitment. Separately, the applicant’s substantive validity challenge was deemed complete on July 27, so hearings on it must open by September 25.
Township ZHB page →5. Share this site.
Most of your neighbors don’t know this is happening. Send this URL to one neighbor today, or post the home page on Facebook. A personal message from a neighbor gets read, which is more than most of us can say for a feed.
Bonus: Bring two neighbors.
This is the most useful thing on the list, because two more people signed up means two more people in the hearing room and two more emails to Township Council.
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Who to Contact
Your officials, by name.
Plymouth Township Council are the people who can call for a curative-amendment moratorium. Your state legislators are the people who can move SB 1359. Your federal representatives matter for FERC and EPA proceedings. Identify yourself as a resident and give your address. That is how your message gets weight.
Plymouth Township Council
Council can advance a curative-amendment moratorium under the PA Municipalities Planning Code. They meet the second Monday of each month. Township Council page.
William Winchester, Jr.
District 1
District 1
Kristin Frederick Leonard
District 2
District 2
Lynne M. Viscio
District 3 · Vice Chair
District 3 · Vice Chair
Aaron Nelson
District 4
District 4
Christopher G. Manero
At Large
At Large
Township general line
Contact form →
Contact form →
State legislators
State Sen. Maria Collett (D-12)
Has publicly opposed “hasty data center development” and tied her position to GRID standards.
Ask: Thank her for her position, and ask her to co-sponsor SB 1359 and press for a committee vote on it.
State Rep. Greg Scott (D)
Represents Plymouth Township in the House.
Ask: Introduce or co-sponsor House companion legislation to SB 1359, which Senator Muth has publicly called for, and oppose the 900 Conshohocken Road application.
Find your specific representatives
Use the official PA legislator lookup, or call the Governor’s office directly:
Email template, copy & paste, then personalize:
Dear [Council Member / Legislator],
My name is [your name] and I live at [your address] in [Plymouth Township / your municipality]. I am writing to oppose the special exception application by 900 Conshohocken Road, LLC for a 2-million-square-foot data center at the former Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant.
Data centers are not a listed use in the Heavy Industrial zoning district under Plymouth Township Zoning Ordinance No. 342. The applicant’s “similar use” theory has not been independently tested, and the application is silent on total power demand, total water demand, air emissions modeling, low-frequency noise, and the identity of the operating tenant.
I urge you to (1) call for an independent fiscal-impact study and air- and noise-modeling studies before any vote, (2) advance a 180-day curative-amendment moratorium under the PA Municipalities Planning Code so the township can write a real data center ordinance, and (3) publicly support Senate Bill 1359, the statewide three-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers and the power plants built to serve them, which reaches applications already pending.
Thank you for representing residents.
[Your name & address]
Statewide Moratorium Bill
Support Senate Bill 1359.
Senate Bill 1359, the Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium Act, was filed on May 29, 2026 by Senator Katie Muth (D, Berks / Chester / Montgomery), with Senator Rosemary Brown (R, Lackawanna / Monroe / Wayne) and Senator Carolyn Comitta (D, Chester) as co-sponsors. It would impose a mandatory, statewide three-year pause on the siting and permitting of hyperscale data centers and the power generation and transmission infrastructure built to serve them, and it applies to state agencies and municipalities alike.
Three features of the bill matter directly to 900 Conshohocken Road.
- It reaches pending applications. The bill prohibits approvals regardless of when an application was filed. A pause that applied only to future filings would leave this project untouched.
- It covers the power plant as well as the data center. Generation and transmission built to serve these facilities are inside the moratorium. On-site gas turbines are the part of this proposal residents can hear, smell, and breathe.
- Noncompliant approvals are void. Under Section 4, action by a Commonwealth agency or a municipality in violation of the act has no effect, and the Attorney General may bring an action to enforce it.
The bill is stalled in committee. On June 30, 2026 the Senate Local Government Committee voted down a bipartisan amendment that would have substituted the SB 1359 language, by a vote of 2 to 9, and advanced two bills offering municipalities an optional pause instead. The House had already passed HB 2496, which lets a municipality choose to pause data center applications for a limited period. As Senator Muth put it, optional is not protective, and a municipal pause triggered by a data center application does not reach a gas plant that is applied for, permitted, or owned separately.
We are a single township holding a quasi-judicial hearing under the Municipalities Planning Code. That process decides one application. SB 1359 is the only measure currently before the General Assembly that would address the buildout as a whole, on a timeline long enough to complete cumulative impact studies, gather seasonal baseline data on noise, air, and water, and let emergency responders train and equip.
Who to contact
Plymouth Township is in the 12th Senatorial District (Senator Maria Collett). Conshohocken Borough and Whitemarsh Township are in the 7th (Senator Vincent Hughes). West Conshohocken, Upper Merion, and Norristown are in the 17th (Senator Amanda Cappelletti). District lines changed after the 2022 redistricting, so confirm yours before you write.
What to say
“I am a constituent writing to ask you to co-sponsor and vote for Senate Bill 1359, the Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium Act. A two-million-square-foot data center with on-site gas turbines is proposed at 900 Conshohocken Road in Plymouth Township, roughly two hundred feet from homes. The application is pending now, which is why a moratorium that reaches pending applications matters. An optional municipal pause does not reach the power generation, and it leaves each township to fight alone. My name is [your name] and I live at [your address] in [your municipality].”
Before September 17
Prepare for the Zoning Hearing Board.
Show up
The Zoning Hearing Board notices the location and time on Plymouth Township’s website and posts physical notice on the property. Bodies in the room matter, and quiet bodies matter most, because the board moved these sessions on the stated ground that audience noise was interfering with the record. The Karen B. Weiss Meeting Room seats about 200 and gives priority to the parties, so arrive early. If you cannot get a seat, go to the overflow viewing room at the Greater Plymouth Community Center rather than going home, and make sure someone notes the number turned away. Wear something that identifies you as a Plymouth resident if you can.
Speak well
Public comment is your right. Identify yourself, give your address, state your position clearly, and stick to the impact on health, safety, or general welfare. The ZHB is not a campaign rally, concrete, evidence-based testimony moves the record more than passion alone.
Document everything
Audio-record (if permitted), take notes, follow Plymouth Township’s posted procedures. Procedural defects in noticing, signage, and hearing conduct are how the Prince William Digital Gateway case was voided.
Offer expertise
If you are a licensed engineer, atmospheric scientist, hydrologist, acoustical expert, attorney, public-health professional, or environmental scientist, you are the people we need most. Sign up and check “Legal” or “Science.”
Beyond the Volunteer Form
What we’re actively looking for.
Land-use counsel
Pennsylvania-licensed land-use attorneys who can review the May 2026 application, draft objections, and represent objectors at the ZHB.
Acoustical engineers
Certified acoustical engineers willing to scope a baseline study at the four property lines, including 1/3-octave low-frequency measurements.
Air-quality experts
Atmospheric scientists or licensed PEs who can model NOx, PM, formaldehyde dispersion at the site at maximum permitted operations.
Hydrologists
Licensed hydrologists who can evaluate the cooling-water plan, brownfield contamination history, and DEP Chapter 110 / DRBC implications.
Fiscal-impact analysts
Public-finance professionals who can scope a third-party fiscal-impact study to test the $21M tax-revenue claim.
Communications & design
Writers, designers, video editors, social-media folks who can keep this site, our Facebook page, and our email list current and persuasive.