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Civic case files.
Citation-anchored summaries of specific local-government decisions, built for ordinary residents to read before something becomes irreversible. Each file walks through the ordinance text, the timeline, who voted, who’s negotiating, and where the documents live. None of them ask anyone to support or oppose anything.
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Lavon, TX — hyperscale data center on the Elevon Parcels 8 & 9
The Lavon City Council amended its Planned Development regulations in December 2024 to allow a hyperscale data center on a 79.3-acre parcel inside the Elevon master-planned community, southwest of FM 2755 and Watkins Road. The land is privately owned. The Lavon EDC and the City are actively marketing it for a hyperscale data center. An Amended and Restated Development Agreement is under closed-session discussion. The residents’ group Protect Lavon formed publicly on 2026-05-22.
The case file includes the verbatim ordinance text, the dimensional standards (85-ft heights, 25/100-ft setbacks, 75% lot coverage), the current Executive Session items (Chalkboard 27, Ignite, Pathways), the next council meeting (June 16, 2026), and a starter comment template residents can edit.
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Background pages sit alongside the case files. They are not case files themselves — no specific ordinance, no specific officials, no specific deadline. They exist so that a resident reading a case file can see the wider context around the kind of decision being made, and the organizations whose work informs how that kind of decision is typically debated.
Background
Hyperscale data centers — national context
Companion to the Lavon, TX case file. Citation-anchored survey of the categories of community concern that have surfaced in hyperscale-data-center hearings across the United States, the state-level activity (Texas, Maine, Utah, Virginia), and the organizations tracking community impact (including the Brockovich Data Center Community Awareness Initiative). The framing language for each concern is attributed to its source; independent corroboration is cited separately where it exists.
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- The decision is real and the documents exist (no hypotheticals).
- The substance is something an ordinary resident could not easily compile on their own (buried in 26 MB agenda packets, scattered across closed-session items, or otherwise inaccessible without effort).
- There is a window during which the record-page can actually help — before an irrevocable agreement is signed, before a deadline passes, before a fait accompli closes the door.
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Operating notes
Refresh cadence
The civic section is refreshed daily by an automated script that pulls new lavontx.gov agenda packets and re-runs the signal-term grep. The Lavon case file shows the “last refresh” timestamp at the top of every page. If the timestamp is more than 48 hours stale, the strip turns amber.
What gets updated automatically
New council agendas, new minutes, the “Next meeting” date, and the “new signal terms since last run” list. Substantive interpretation (the framing on the Overview, the comment template) is updated by hand.