New Braunfels would keep data centers at least 2,000 feet from homes, schools, parks, churches, day care centers, nursing homes and trails under a draft zoning ordinance the city’s Planning Commission takes up in a public hearing Nov. 4, according to the commission’s agenda packet.
The groundwater district that covers western Hays County has a state-modeled ceiling of about 9,100 acre-feet a year.
Will Texas lawmakers give communities more say over where data centers are built?
Williamson County is asking state regulators for a formal hearing on a proposed taxing district for 108.7 acres about a mile north of Leander, and the state's own lawyers disagree on whether the county is entitled to one.
Early voting opened Monday on a question Texas has spent a decade engineering its way toward.
Hays County, the fast-growing county between Austin and San Antonio, wants developers of data centers and other heavy users of water and electricity to meet specific limits before the county will offer them incentives.
McLennan and Nueces counties landfill or litter roughly 390 million beverage containers a year, by a Texas Dispatch estimate, and at the scrap prices Texas A&M researchers used that material was worth about $7.9 million.
Caldwell County commissioners will hear a developer's pitch Oct. 22 for a contract that would govern how a roughly 3,130-acre mixed-use community, tentatively named Mirada, is reviewed, permitted and built off State Highway 80 — in a county where, under state law, the commissioners have no general power to zone land.
Bastrop County commissioners on Oct. 13 asked the state to hold a public meeting on a proposed natural gas power plant at Cedar Creek, using the one tool the county says it has: a request. The Commissioners Court approved a resolution presented by Precinct 3 Commissioner Mark Meuth.
Corpus Christi code officers open between roughly 870 and 1,800 new cases a month, and the caseload never tapers.