What this page is, and isn’t.

What this page is

A citation-anchored summary of the public record on the proposed hyperscale data center on Land Use Parcels 8 and 9 of the Elevon community in Lavon, Texas. Every factual claim points to a primary source — almost always a document on lavontx.gov — so anyone reading the page can verify the underlying record.

It was built to fill a gap. News of the data-center proposal began circulating publicly in Lavon during May 2026; a residents’ group formed on Facebook on May 22, 2026. Indexed-web search engines had not yet caught up to the local situation, and the relevant ordinance text was buried in a 26 MB agenda packet on the city website. This page consolidates what is publicly known into one document a Lavon resident can read in fifteen minutes.

What this page is not

• It is not the residents’ group. Lavon Families Against the Data Center / Protect Lavon is a separate, moderated Facebook community with its own voice and its own perspective. This page does not mirror its content, does not coordinate with its organizers, and does not represent it.
• It is not an advocacy site. It does not ask anyone to support or oppose the data center. It assembles the documents that let residents and officials make their own decisions.
• It is not legal advice. The summaries of the Texas Open Meetings Act, Public Information Act, and zoning law are pointers to public sources; they are not lawyering. Consult an attorney for any legal question that matters to you.
• It is not real-time. The page is updated by hand. The “last updated” date in the footer reflects the most recent revision.
• It is not run by the city, the Lavon EDC, the Elevon developer, or any data-center company. It is a private citizen’s public record.

How corrections work

If you spot a factual error, a misquoted ordinance section, an out-of-date official, or an unsourced claim, please flag it. Corrections that point to a primary source will be made; corrections that are themselves unsourced will not.

To submit a correction, write to the address that will be published here once the page has a public home. Until then, corrections should be addressed via the maintainer’s personal channel.

Privacy and what this page does not collect

• No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Cloudflare Insights, no Microsoft Clarity, no anything.
• No cookies. No localStorage. No fingerprinting.
• No third-party scripts. No CDN fonts. No social-share widgets. No newsletter sign-up. No paywall. No ads.
• The comment-template field on the Officials page is entirely client-side — nothing you type leaves your browser until you copy and send it yourself.
• The mailto links open your own email client. They do not route mail through any intermediary.

Why those choices

Civic information should not depend on the goodwill of a third-party tracking vendor. A page that asks people to read about a sensitive local zoning matter has no business sending their reading habits to an advertising platform. The page is deliberately old-fashioned: hand-written HTML, one CSS file, no JavaScript framework, no build step. It will work on a ten-year-old phone, a screen reader, a Lynx text browser, or a printout.

Standing on others’ shoulders

The page borrows its structural conventions from a civic-engagement template, HeardTogether.org, originally designed for a different community in 2025. The HeardTogether template’s core idea — “primary sources outrank summaries” — is the load-bearing principle here.

Reporting and analytical context for the statewide backdrop is owed to the Texas Tribune, the Texas Observer, Public Citizen, and local outlets, each cited where their work is used.

One last thing

If you are a Lavon resident, a council member, the EDC staff, an Elevon executive, a Community ISD parent, a Texas reporter, or a neighbor reading from out of town — the data above is the same. The point of doing it as a public record rather than as a campaign is that the same document should be useful to all of those readers.