The Aurora City Council will discuss a permit for businesses that target low-income communities and vote on regulations for new data centers in a study session and regular council meeting Monday night.

In the study session, the City Council will decide whether to move forward with a socioeconomic impact permit, which would be required for new businesses such as pawnshops, smoke shops and retail liquor stores.

It is designed to prevent the overconcentration of stores that “disproportionately target diverse, lower-income communities,” according to council documents.

The permit was initially proposed to the council last year and then removed from the agenda before formal consideration. It will now go through the council consideration process again.

In the regular meeting, council members will vote on a resolution establishing accountability metrics for the Aurora Regional Navigation Campus.

Also in Monday’s regular meeting, council members will vote on a moratorium that would direct the city manager to implement regulations on data centers in Aurora.

Until those regulations are created, the city will not accept development applications for new or expanded data centers, council documents state.

“The City Council recognizes that data centers may affect the character of the surrounding area and that all applications for data centers should be considered consistently within the purpose and intent of the City’s development goals and plans so that the most appropriate uses of land are encouraged throughout the City,” according to council documents.

Some of the proposed rules and regulations include prohibiting the use of evaporative cooling and enacting land-use requirements such as setbacks and buffers to mitigate adverse neighborhood impacts.

Monday’s study session starts at 4:30 p.m., and the regular meeting will follow at 6 p.m. The regular meeting will take place in the Paul Tauer Aurora City Council Chamber, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, and the study session will be livestreamed in the chamber.

Both meetings are available to watch online at AuroraTV.org and YouTube.com/TheAuroraChannel and on cable channels eight and 880 in Aurora.

The full meeting agenda is available on the city’s website.