Public contacts · Lavon, Texas

Mayor, council, EDC — and a starter comment

These are the public-facing offices a Lavon resident would normally write or call about a zoning matter. All contact details below come from the city of Lavon’s public records and the Lavon Economic Development Corporation’s public information.

One careful, specific email or three-minute statement at a council meeting carries more weight than a hundred copy-pasted social-media posts. Officials respond to constituents who can name an item, cite a date, and ask for a specific action. The template below is built for that.

Mayor and city council

Mayor · Vicki Sanson	Contact via Lavon City Hall, 972-843-4220. Council member email patterns are not published on the city website; the City Secretary’s office can forward a written comment to the mayor and council.
Council · Mike Shepard	Via City Hall: 972-843-4220 · 120 School Rd, Lavon, TX 75166
Council · Mike Cook	Via City Hall: 972-843-4220
Council · Travis Jacob	Via City Hall: 972-843-4220
Council · Rachel Dumas	Via City Hall: 972-843-4220
Council · Lindsey Hedge	Via City Hall: 972-843-4220
City Secretary · Rae Norton	Via City Hall: 972-843-4220 · certifies and posts the published agenda each meeting; also the records-request point of contact

The Texas Public Information Act (Tex. Gov’t Code Ch. 552) lets any Texan submit a written request for public records held by the city. The City Secretary is the standard point of contact. A request must be in writing; a sample PIA letter is available from the Texas Attorney General.

Lavon Economic Development Corporation

Executive Director · Pam Mundo	pam.mundo@lavonedc.com · 214-773-0966
Lavon EDC website	lavonedc.com
Elevon community page on Lavon EDC	lavonedc.com / projects-properties / Elevon
Elevon commercial & industrial inventory	lavonedc.com / Elevon commercial & industrial properties

The Lavon EDC is the city’s economic-development corporation. Under Texas law (Tex. Local Gov’t Code Ch. 505), Type B EDCs are governed by a board appointed by the city council and may use sales-tax proceeds for economic-development projects. The EDC board meets separately from the city council; meeting agendas and minutes are posted on the city’s agenda archive.

City Hall & Lavon city services

Lavon City Hall	120 School Road, Lavon, TX 75166 · 972-843-4220 · lavontx.gov
Council Agendas & Minutes	lavontx.gov / lavon-city-council-agenda-minutes
Land Use & Development	lavontx.gov / land-use-and-development
Codes & Ordinances	lavontx.gov / codes-and-ordinances
Public Notices	lavontx.gov / public-notices
Boards & Commissions	lavontx.gov / boards-commissions (includes Planning and Zoning Commission)

A starter comment

This is a starter for a written comment to the Lavon City Council and EDC. Edit it. Adding your own specifics — how close you live to the parcels, when you bought your home, what you understood the surrounding land use to be — is what makes the comment actually land.

Editable template

Tip: copy this into your email client. Set the subject to something specific.

Subject Body

Dear Mayor Sanson and members of the Lavon City Council,

I am a Lavon resident writing about the hyperscale data center being marketed for Land Use Parcels 8 and 9 of the Elevon community — the ~79.3-acre site southwest of FM 2755 (McClendon Road) and Watkins Road (CR 541), CCAD Property ID 2543097. I understand the city council adopted Ordinance No. 2024-12-01 on December 3, 2024 to amend the Elevon Planned Development to allow this use, and that the related Elevon Amended and Restated Development Agreement is currently being discussed in executive session.

Before any further action is taken on this site, I am asking the council to:

1. Publish, in plain language and at least 30 days before any open-session vote, the full proposed terms of any amended Elevon Development Agreement, including any tax abatement, Chapter 380 grant, public improvement district, or reinvestment-zone arrangement under consideration.

2. Disclose, to the extent permitted under Tex. Gov't Code §551.087, which of the code-named projects (Chalkboard 27, Ignite, Pathways) is being negotiated for these parcels, and what specific incentives are being offered.

3. Hold a properly noticed public hearing — not just a Citizens Comments segment — at a regular meeting before any vote on the amended Development Agreement, with the meeting packet posted at least 7 days in advance.

4. Commission, and make public, an independent third-party study of expected (a) peak electrical load, (b) ERCOT interconnection impact, (c) groundwater and municipal water use, (d) measured-equivalent sound-level estimates at the nearest residential property lines, and (e) projected long-term jobs and tax revenue net of incentives.

5. Direct the Lavon EDC to publish the marketing materials currently being used to solicit hyperscale data-center buyers for these parcels.

[ADD YOUR OWN SPECIFICS HERE — for example, how close you live to the parcels, when you bought, what use you understood the land to be planned for, whether your children attend NeSmith Elementary or Trails Middle School, and what your specific concern is.]

I am not asking the council to take a position for or against a data center in principle. I am asking that the negotiations, the financial terms, and the environmental load be made fully public before the council takes any action that would lock the city into a specific buyer or specific incentive package.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[Your Lavon address]
[Your email / phone]

Copy comment text Open in email (To: EDC director)

The mailto button opens a draft addressed to the EDC director. Add the City Secretary (Rae Norton, via City Hall) so the comment also goes into the council’s incoming-mail log; council members and the mayor receive constituent correspondence through City Hall.

Whose hands the decision is in

Texas zoning amendments and development agreements are city-council decisions, not EDC decisions. The Lavon EDC negotiates and markets; the council votes. A change to Ordinance 2024-12-01 — including a repeal — would have to be:

Initiated by the council itself, or applied for by a property owner, or recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission;
Reviewed at a properly noticed Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing;
Brought to the city council with a P&Z recommendation;
Considered at a properly noticed council public hearing; and
Voted on at an open meeting of the council.

Three council members appear in both the 2024 and 2026 council voting records and are presumed continuing members from the time of the original ordinance vote: Mike Cook, Mike Shepard, and Travis Jacob. Rachel Dumas and Lindsey Hedge appear in the 2026 records and were not on the council at the time of the original December 3, 2024 vote. The mayor, Vicki Sanson, has presided over the council across both periods.