Public record · Lavon, Texas · updated 2026-05-22
A 79.3-acre hyperscale data center is on the table inside the Elevon community.
In December 2024, the Lavon City Council amended its Planned Development regulations to allow a hyperscale data center on Land Use Parcels 8 and 9 of the Elevon master-planned community — about 79.3 acres southwest of FM 2755 (McClendon Road) and Watkins Road (CR 541). The land is privately owned. No buyer is under contract yet. The City and the Lavon Economic Development Corporation are marketing the site for a hyperscale data center, and the related Elevon development agreement is under active discussion in closed session.
What this page is: a plain, citation-anchored record of what is publicly known about the proposed data center, where the documents live, and how the public can participate. It is not a political campaign and not legal advice. Every claim links to the original source.
The short version
What was approved
Ordinance No. 2024-12-01, adopted at the December 3, 2024 regular meeting of the Lavon City Council, amended the prior Elevon Planned Development regulations (Ord. 2022-10-03) to define the use of “data center” and amend screening, dimensional standards, building materials, and setbacks for two specific parcels. The applicant was Lovett Industrial (Bennett See, Director). Motion by Mike Shepard, second by Travis Jacob, approved unanimously. The council added a prohibition on cryptocurrency / bitcoin mining during the hearing.
Read the ordinance language → · Vote attribution →
Where
Land Use Parcels 8 and 9 of the Elevon Planned Development. ~79.3 acres in the Drury Anglin Survey, Abstract No. 2, Tract 75, southwest of the intersection of FM 2755 (McClendon Road) and Watkins Road (CR 541), Lavon, Collin County. Collin County Appraisal District (CCAD) Property ID 2543097.
See the site description →
What a hyperscale data center is, in this ordinance
The ordinance defines a Data Center as a “data processing center (hyperscale) facility” including cooling systems, generators, mechanical and electrical yards, private substations, diesel storage tanks, fuel storage for emergency generators, water storage tanks, security fencing, and related infrastructure.
See the definition verbatim →
What changed about the building rules
For data center use specifically, the amended PD allows building heights up to 85 feet (versus 45 feet at base), sets a 25/100 ft setback pattern, allows up to 75% lot coverage, removes the maximum building size limit, and provides a 15-foot landscape buffer along FM 2755 and McClendon Road.
See the dimensional standards →
Buyer pipeline
According to public statements from the residents’ group Protect Lavon, no buyer is currently under contract; the Lavon Economic Development Corporation (Pam Mundo, Executive Director) and the City are actively marketing the site for a hyperscale data center. Three business-prospect code-names — Chalkboard 27, Ignite, and Pathways — have recurred on the Lavon City Council’s closed-session agendas in 2026, identified only as projects “in proximity to SH 78.”
See the buyer-pipeline record →
What’s active right now
The most recent Lavon City Council agenda (May 19, 2026) lists, in executive session, attorney consultation regarding the Elevon Amended and Restated Development Agreement. The May 5, 2026 consent agenda included Resolution No. 2026-05-01, authorizing a First Amendment to the City’s Professional Services Reimbursement Agreement “for city expenses relating to the scope and expansion of the Elevon Development Agreement.”
See the active items →
Why this page exists
News of the proposed data center has been spreading through Lavon over the past several days. A residents’ group, Lavon Families Against the Data Center (public-facing brand Protect Lavon), launched a private Facebook group on May 22, 2026 to coordinate community response. As of that day, the group was less than 24 hours old.
The indexed web is lagging the local situation. Search engines do not yet surface the residents’ group, and the council’s 2024 ordinance is buried in a 26 MB agenda packet on the city website. This page consolidates the public record — ordinance text, agenda items, official contacts, and meeting dates — into one document a Lavon resident can read in fifteen minutes.
It is not the residents’ group. The residents’ group has its own voice and its own moderated space. This page is a citation-anchored civic record, designed to make the underlying primary sources easier to find for anyone — resident, council member, reporter, neighbor — trying to understand what was actually approved and what is currently being negotiated.
What residents can do
Read the record
The ordinance text, dimensional standards, executive-session items, and CCAD property ID are all on the Record page, anchored to the city’s own PDFs.
Attend or write
Council meetings are first and third Tuesdays at 6:30 PM at Lavon City Hall (120 School Road). Citizens may speak for three minutes during the Citizens Comments section. The next regular meeting is June 2, 2026. See Next meeting.
Contact officials
The mayor, all five council members, and the EDC executive director are listed with their public contact info on Officials, along with a starter comment template you can edit.
Other Texas towns are doing the same thing
Lavon is not alone. Between February and May 2026, the Texas Tribune, the Texas Observer, Public Citizen, and several local news outlets have documented organized civic responses to proposed data centers in San Marcos (a $1.5 billion proposal rejected by city council 5–2), Lacy Lakeview near Waco (a $10 billion Infrakey proposal facing a 3,000-signature petition), Hood County (a moratorium attempt blocked under threat of state legal action), and elsewhere. Their playbooks and arguments are summarized here.
Honest framing. Whether a hyperscale data center in Elevon would be good or bad for Lavon is a judgment call that depends on tax revenue, jobs, water and electric load, noise, and what alternatives the parcels would otherwise see. This page does not take a position on that question. It assembles the evidence that lets residents and officials answer it for themselves.