79 Acres
at Elevon

Why This Exists

In December 2024 the City of Lavon approved zoning for 79.3 acres in the Elevon development, off FM 2755. That zoning lists the kinds of business allowed to be built there: 43 on one parcel, 53 on the other.

One of them is a data center, and it has drawn the most public attention. It is also one entry on a list of forty-three, several of which carry substantial impacts of their own. This report measures all of them the same way, so they can be compared rather than assumed.

The City's Position, in Full

How to Read This

To compare a warehouse against a hospital against a data center, you need to measure them all the same way. These are the eight yardsticks used throughout.

Most figures are given per acre. A business creating 500 jobs sounds better than one creating 50 until you learn the first needs 200 acres and the second needs four.

Terms Used Throughout

Abatement (tax abatement)

A deal that forgives part of a property's tax bill for up to ten years under Chapter 312 of the Tax Code, in exchange for building something. School districts cannot grant one; cities and counties can.

Agricultural valuation

A property-tax break for land in farm or ranch use. The land is taxed on what it earns as farmland, not what it would sell for. Converting it triggers a rollback tax covering the previous three years.

Business personal property

Equipment, machinery and inventory inside a building, as opposed to the building and land. Texas taxes it like real estate, which is why a data center's servers matter so much on the tax roll.

By right

A use the zoning already allows. If the plans meet the rules, the City issues permits. No public hearing and no council vote.

Chapter 380 agreement

A contract under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 380 in which a city gives money, tax rebates or services to a business to encourage development. Unlike an abatement, it has no ten-year limit.

Clawback

A clause that lets a city take back an incentive if the company does not deliver what it promised. State law requires one for failing to build; a jobs clawback, for failing to create the promised jobs, is optional and often left out.

Closed-loop cooling

Cooling that recirculates the same water in a sealed system, using almost none once filled. Evaporative cooling, the alternative, boils water away and can use millions of gallons a day.

Conditional use

A use needing a separate permit on top of the zoning, with a hearing at Planning and Zoning and another at City Council. Marked in this report as hearing required.

dBA

Loudness as a person hears it. Every 10 dBA roughly doubles perceived loudness. A refrigerator is about 40; conversation about 60.

ERCOT

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which runs the power grid for most of the state and decides how big new users connect to it.

Extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ)

The unincorporated land just outside a city's limits where the city has some say over plats but no zoning. These 79 acres are inside the city limits, not the ETJ.

Freeport exemption

A property-tax exemption for goods that pass through Texas within 175 days. It matters to a warehouse and does nothing for a data center.

General fund

The City's main operating account: police, fire, streets, staff. Not every tax dollar the City collects ends up there.

Home rule city

A city whose voters adopted a charter. It may do anything state law does not forbid. Lavon became one in November 2022.

Hyperscale data center

A very large facility housing computing equipment for a single major operator. The ordinance defines it and expressly excludes cryptocurrency mining.

Large load

A single electricity customer big enough, usually 75 megawatts or more, to need its own review before it can connect to the grid.

Low-frequency noise

Sound below about 100 hertz: the hum of fans and transformers. Walls and distance stop it far less well than ordinary noise, and a standard dBA reading can miss it.

Moratorium

A temporary pause on approving a kind of development while a city writes new rules. Texas caps it at 180 days and requires written findings.

Municipal Development District (MDD)

A half-cent sales-tax district a city can create in its extraterritorial jurisdiction, with voter approval, to fund projects there.

Municipal Utility District (MUD)

A special district that issues bonds to build water, sewer and drainage for a new neighborhood and levies its own property tax to repay them.

Planned Development

Custom zoning written for one specific property, replacing the city's standard districts.

Public Improvement District (PID)

A district that adds an assessment to property bills to repay roads, parks or utilities built for a development.

PUE

Power usage effectiveness. Total electricity into a data center divided by the electricity the computers use. A PUE of 2.0 means half the power goes to cooling and losses; 1.2 means a sixth does.

Qualifying data center

A data center certified by the state for a sales-tax exemption on its equipment and electricity. The standard tier exempts only the state's share; the large-project tier exempts the local share too.

Recapture

The school-finance rule under which a property-rich district sends part of its tax collections back to the state. Community ISD is not a recapture district today but is close to the line.

Setback

The minimum distance a building or piece of equipment must sit from a property line.

Site plan

The detailed drawing of what will be built where on a lot. Filing one is the step that starts the clock on vested rights.

Tax levy

The total amount of property tax a taxing unit bills in a year: the tax rate multiplied by everything taxable inside its boundaries.

Tax rate

Dollars of tax per $100 of taxable value. Lavon's is $0.42; all four local units together charge about $1.86.

Taxable value

What a property is taxed on after exemptions. It can be far below market value: this land is worth about $2 million and is taxed on $14,120.

Tier 4 Final

The cleanest current federal emission standard for diesel engines such as backup generators. The law requires only Tier 2 for standby engines of this size.

TIRZ

Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone. An area where part of the growth in property tax is set aside to repay development costs rather than going to general services.

Use tax

Sales tax charged on goods bought elsewhere and brought into the city, such as equipment delivered to a building site.

Vested rights

Texas law freezing certain development rules once an application is filed, so they cannot change mid-project. Noise, lighting and construction hours are not on the frozen list.

Site Data

Uses Not Permitted

How a Use Gets Approved

Two routes exist, and the difference matters more than the list itself. A by right use needs only that the plans meet the rules; the City checks them and issues permits. A conditional use needs a separate permit on top of the zoning, which requires a hearing at Planning and Zoning and another at City Council.

How It Got Here

1. Aug 2024The City amends its thoroughfare plan to remove a planned road through the Business Park. The written reason: it “is being developed as a Data Center.”
2. Dec 3, 2024City Council unanimously adopts Ordinance 2024-12-01, defining “data center” as a permitted use on Parcels 8 and 9. Twenty-five neighbor notices mailed; none returned.
3. Jun 25, 2026The City publishes its data center statement: no applications, no projects in the works, best practices under study.
4. Jul 22, 2026A public information session on data center development is cancelled at the developer's request, announced the day before. Developer representatives hold drop-in hours at City Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. instead. As of late August it has not been rescheduled.
5. Aug 6, 2026Council votes unanimously to begin the moratorium process. Staff memo: nothing filed, no incentives requested, offered or granted.
6. Aug 13, 2026The City publishes its notice of public hearing in The Wylie News, setting a first hearing for September 15 and a second for October 20, both at 6:30 p.m., and describing a moratorium on data centers. Confirmed by the publisher's sworn affidavit.
7. Sep 15 · Oct 20 · Nov 17, 2026Noticed moratorium hearings, findings, first and second readings. Needs a three-quarters vote.
8. Nov 3, 2026Election on a Municipal Development District in the City's ETJ. Does not include these parcels.

The zoning that allows a data center here was not an accident of an old ordinance. It was a specific amendment, Ordinance No. 2024-12-01, requested by a specific applicant, Lovett Industrial, and approved at a specific meeting, the regular City Council meeting of December 3, 2024. The record is public and worth knowing in detail, because most of the disagreement about it turns on facts that are not actually in dispute.

Much of the public argument about data centers is being conducted with facts from 2010. That is worth correcting in both directions, because the picture is genuinely better than the reputation in some places and genuinely worse in others, and the places where it got worse are recent enough that most coverage has not caught up.

What Actually Got Better

The industry measures its own efficiency with a ratio called PUE: total power going into the building, divided by the power that reaches the computers. A PUE of 2.0 means half the electricity is spent on cooling and losses. A PUE of 1.2 means only a sixth is.

That is a real achievement, and the reason is not exotic. Operators stopped chilling whole rooms and started separating hot air from cold; they let the buildings run warmer, which lets outside air do the work for much of the year; and they replaced fixed-speed fans with variable ones. A fan at half speed moves half the air on about an eighth of the power, because fan power rises with the cube of speed. That single relationship is most of the story.

The Part That Reversed

For twenty years the engineering standards body for this industry, ASHRAE, kept widening the temperature range equipment was allowed to run in. Warmer allowed temperatures mean more hours per year when outside air alone will do, which means less mechanical cooling and less water. Its 2015 guidance recommends 64 to 81 °F, with one equipment class rated as high as 113 °F.

Then the chips got denser, and the direction of travel changed.

The same reversal shows up in a smaller place. Server cooling fans once consumed about 20 percent of a server's power; variable-speed control pushed that below 2 percent. ASHRAE now reports fan power “on the rise again, exponentially,” with 10 to 20 percent not uncommon in dense servers.

Why the Density Changed Everything

A rack is a cabinet of computers. In a 2020 industry survey the average rack drew 8.4 kilowatts, and 71 percent of them were under 10. Air cooling was generally considered to run out somewhere around 20 to 30 kilowatts, stretched to 40 or 50 in the best cases.

This section works through what a person living nearby would actually experience, roughly in the order they would notice it. Every use is measured the same way.

Traffic

Where these numbers come from

From the Institute of Transportation Engineers' published rates. The uses people ask for instead of industry -- shops and restaurants -- are the busiest things on this entire list. A drive-through restaurant generates roughly 600 times the traffic per acre of a public park, and over 100 times a data center.

How this was measured. Data center figures assume a single modern campus occupying all 79.312 acres at 100 to 500 MW of computing load, with buildings covering about a quarter to a third of the site -- the rest is substation, generator and cooling yards, detention and setbacks. Power draw is set by the equipment installed inside, not by the acreage, which is the one figure a site plan alone cannot tell you. For local scale: Google's operating Midlothian campus is on the order of 50 to 100 MW, estimated from its published water use.

Fast food with drive-through. at 4,675 to 5,844 trips per acre it is not merely the highest here, it is roughly six thousand times a public park and over a hundred times a data center. Averaging it in with the other retail hides the single busiest thing that could be built on this land.

The surprise is not where the data center sits. It is where the shops sit. The uses people most often ask for instead of industry are the busiest things on the entire list. A drive-through restaurant generates roughly 600 times the traffic per acre of a public park, and more than 100 times a data center.

Noise

So the argument that a data center would be deafening is not supported. The argument that being legally compliant is not the same as being pleasant to live beside is supported, by the industry's own measurements. A chiller farm in the United Kingdom was measured at 48.5 dBA at the homes complaining about it, comfortably inside a 55 dBA limit, and still drew a formal noise abatement notice.

The Hum, and Whether It Comes up Through the Ground

This is the concern raised most often, and it deserves a straight answer, because two different things get folded into one worry. One is vibration travelling through the soil and into a house's structure. The other is low-frequency sound travelling through the air and passing through the walls. They are not the same mechanism, and the evidence points different ways on each.

What Actually Helps, and What Only Looks Like It Helps

This matters because the remedies usually offered in a public meeting are the ones that work least well against exactly this kind of sound. The table compares six of them.

One more piece of honesty, from the acoustician who wrote a county's noise limits: a numeric limit is set at the edge of what is compatible with residential living, so “compliance does not equate to silence, nor will it necessarily eliminate annoyance or complaints.” A number in the ordinance is far better than no number. It is not the same as quiet.

Water

Where these numbers come from

Google's own published figures for 2023. The two green sites are air-cooled; Google's footnote reads 'Air-cooled facility; no water used for cooling.' Midlothian, in orange, is the closest comparable to Lavon -- a real hyperscale campus in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Note that these sites also differ in size, so the spread is not cooling design alone. The size-independent version of the same point is the share consumed: about 10 percent at an air-cooled site against 79 to 83 percent at an evaporative one.

Council Bluffs, Iowa. 2.7 million gallons a day is roughly a hundred thousand times the same company's Montreal site in the same year. Both ends of this chart are outliers, and that is the finding: there is no typical figure to quote, only a design choice that has not been made yet.

Twenty-seven gallons a day in Montreal. Two point seven million a day in Iowa. Same company, same year, same standards. The difference is whether the building is cooled by evaporating water or by air and sealed loops.

Where these numbers come from

Withdrawal is what a business takes from the system. Consumption is what evaporates and never comes back. A laundry returns about 90 percent to the sewer; a data center using evaporative cooling boils roughly 83 percent of its water into the air. The evaporative figures are Google's own audited numbers for its Midlothian, Texas campus in 2023.

How the consumption figures were arrived at, since they vary in confidence. LAUNDRY: EPA's Industrial Laundries technical document reports about 10 percent evaporative loss -- but that is a 1994 survey in which fewer than 15 percent of plants actually measured their discharge. DATA CENTER, CLOSED-LOOP: Google publishes audited withdrawal, discharge and consumption for eight air-cooled sites; they consume 10.4 percent of what they withdraw. HOSPITAL: an engineering estimate at about 30 percent, not a published figure -- cooling towers and irrigation are consumptive and the rest returns to the sewer. No hospital anywhere publishes both withdrawal and discharge. KENNEL: negligible, under 400 gallons a day, since a kennel has no cooling tower and no meaningful irrigation.

Where these numbers come from

Regional supply is not the same as local plumbing. The district having water to sell says nothing about whether the pipes serving this corner of town can deliver it. That is a Bear Creek Special Utility District question, and it is a fair one to ask.

Electricity

Where these numbers come from

Warehouse and cold storage figures come from federal building energy survey data. The data center range is illustrative of a modern campus, because its power draw is set by how much computing equipment goes inside, not by the size of the land. This is the one impact where nothing else on the list is close.

How this was measured. Data center figures assume a single modern campus occupying all 79.312 acres at 100 to 500 MW of computing load, with buildings covering about a quarter to a third of the site -- the rest is substation, generator and cooling yards, detention and setbacks. Power draw is set by the equipment installed inside, not by the acreage, which is the one figure a site plan alone cannot tell you. For local scale: Google's operating Midlothian campus is on the order of 50 to 100 MW, estimated from its published water use.

Data center. at 100 to 500 MW this is not a tall bar on the same chart, it is a different chart. The next heaviest use draws 5.84 MW and the typical one under 1 MW, which is why every other bar is a sliver. Any average that includes this row is meaningless.

A big-box distribution center on all 79 acres would draw roughly one megawatt. A hyperscale data center is measured in hundreds. That is not a bigger version of the same thing.

What Lands on Everyone Else's Bill

Big new users do not pay for the wires alone. Under the rules in force today, the cost of transmission lines in Texas is spread across every customer on the grid, and the state's own five-year audit found that homes and small businesses paid 46.9 percent of $16.33 billion in wholesale transmission charges while accounting for 37.6 percent of peak demand. In plain terms: when a very large user connects, part of the cost of serving it shows up on ordinary bills. Those rules are being rewritten now, with a decision due by December 31, 2026, and a 2025 state law gives the grid operator new authority over how large loads connect. What a data center here would mean for a Lavon electric bill is genuinely undecided, and it is decided in Austin.

Air Quality

Backup generators are the single most common source of complaints about air quality near these facilities. The technology has improved enormously, and the law does not require the improved version.

On how often they run, one comparison is worth making because it defuses a common worry. Federal rules cap emergency engines at 100 hours a year of testing and maintenance, and the same cap governs the backup generators at a hospital. The honest difference between a data center and a hospital is not how often the engines are tested. It is how many of them there are.

Also true, and applying to every use on this list: Collin County is already in the Dallas-Fort Worth ozone nonattainment area, industrial development runs about 72 percent hard surface on heavy clay soils, and a loaded tractor-trailer does roughly a thousand times the pavement damage of a van.

Fire and Safety

Lavon Fire Department operates from one station, staffed by full-time and part-time firefighters, typically six on duty per shift. It recently acquired a tender carrying 3,000 gallons through a matching grant, for work in areas where hydrants or municipal water are limited or absent.

Jobs

Where these numbers come from

Two uses that zoning treats identically -- a plain warehouse and a sorting fulfillment center -- differ by sixteen times on jobs. Nothing in the zoning decides which one shows up. The data center range comes from real disclosed figures: about 50 permanent jobs at Google Midlothian, about 100 at Meta in Temple.

How this was measured. Data center figures assume a single modern campus occupying all 79.312 acres at 100 to 500 MW of computing load, with buildings covering about a quarter to a third of the site -- the rest is substation, generator and cooling yards, detention and setbacks. Power draw is set by the equipment installed inside, not by the acreage, which is the one figure a site plan alone cannot tell you. For local scale: Google's operating Midlothian campus is on the order of 50 to 100 MW, estimated from its published water use.

Fulfillment center (sorting). 75 jobs per acre is fifteen times the plain warehouse directly below it, and zoning treats the two as the same use. This single row is the strongest argument on the whole page for caring which tenant arrives, not just which use is permitted.

After noise, the question asked most often in Lavon is what any of this would do to the value of a house. It is a fair question and it has a less satisfying answer than either side would like, because the honest finding of thirty years of research is that distance matters more than the use does. Nearly every effect anyone has measured, good or bad, is large at the fence and gone within a quarter to half a mile.

So rather than give each use one number, this section lays the evidence out along a ruler. Where a study exists, it is drawn as a band with what it found. Where nobody has looked, the gap is drawn as a gap.

One fact from the tax roll reframes this argument. Lavon contains 43 commercial properties totaling 55.7 acres, and two industrial properties totaling one acre. That is the whole non-residential base of the city. At 79.3 acres, this one property is larger than every commercial property in Lavon put together.

So Why Not Just Put Shops There?

Where these numbers come from

The demand figure uses the US average of 24.5 square feet of retail per person, which is already the most over- retailed rate in the world. The built figure is the city's 2026 certified tax roll. Lavon already has roughly twice as much commercial land as its population supports, before anyone builds anything on these 79 acres.

What the Land Pays Right Now

When people say a project would be good for Lavon's tax base, roughly 23 cents of each dollar reaches the City. About 65 cents goes to Community ISD, which makes the school board a room worth being in, and it is not where this argument has been happening.

What Each Use Would Actually Pay

Where these numbers come from

How this was measured. Taxable value per acre is the median for campus-scale properties of 10 acres or more, read off real Collin County appraisal records for 2026, and covers buildings and land only. The rate is the combined 2025 adopted rate for the City of Lavon, Community ISD, Collin County and Collin College: $1.858263 per $100. A public park and a non-profit hospital are not shown because both are exempt: they would pay exactly nothing, permanently. Some permitted uses are missing because they never occupy this much land: no hotel or metal fabrication shop in Collin County sits on even 10 acres, let alone 79.

An independent cross-check on the data center figure, by a different method. Summing every parcel in Collin County coded as a data center gives 24 properties across 431 acres at $4.59 million of taxable value per acre, buildings and land only. On 79.312 acres that is about $364 million -- inside the range shown here and toward its lower end, which is where it should sit, because it excludes the equipment.

Data center. the only bar that is a range, and it covers only operating, fully populated data centers. The low end is the CoreWeave site in Plano, buildings and equipment on 23.8 acres, scaled to 79. The high end is Lancium Buildings 1 and 2 in Abilene, fully populated on 95 acres. Equipment is 82 percent of that campus's value and land is 0.04 percent, so what the building holds decides this, not how big the lot is. Google's Midlothian campus would scale lower, about $5 million a year, only because most of its 375 acres is open land.

As it sits today. the land is appraised as cropland. Market value $1,983,100, taxable value $14,120, total tax $262 a year of which the City of Lavon receives $59.30. Every other bar on this chart is being measured against fifty-nine dollars.

This is the chart most worth sitting with, and the one most often challenged, so it is worth being precise about what the range is. A data center is the only bar that is a range at all, and it covers operating, fully populated data centers only: every point inside it is a real building, full of equipment, on a real county appraisal roll today. The low end is the denser of the two Plano sites; the top is the fully built-out pair of buildings in Abilene. The spread between them is how much computing equipment sits inside, which is the one thing a site plan cannot tell you in advance.

Where these numbers come from

Read off county appraisal records. Texas taxes business personal property, so the servers and electrical plant are assessed and billed like the building is -- which is not true in most states, and is why this matters here. Meta's Temple equipment had not been valued when this was written; its buildings jumped from $1.8 million to $457 million in a single year as construction completed. The Abilene campus is the extreme: equipment is 82 percent of its value and the land under it is 0.04 percent.

A caution about comparing these. What counts as 'taxable' depends on which taxing unit is asking. School districts in Texas cannot grant abatements, so the Midlothian figures here are full unabated value, while the city abates 85 percent of the buildings and 100 percent of the equipment. The same property is worth very different amounts to different governments.

A Fifty-year Commitment Almost Nobody Is Discussing

Where these numbers come from

Property tax: the City collects 42 cents per $100 of value, but 45 percent of the increment inside the Elevon reinvestment zone is committed to a developer reimbursement fund until January 31, 2072, debt service included, and of the remainder about 62 cents on the dollar is the operating rate. So roughly 34 cents of each gross city tax dollar from this land reaches the general fund. The data center bar covers operating, fully populated campuses only, as in the chart above.

Sales tax: Lavon's local 2 percent splits as 1 percent general fund, 0.5 percent streets and 0.5 percent economic development corporation; only the general-fund share is shown. Retail and restaurants are the only uses that generate a recurring stream, and the bar is a ceiling: it assumes the whole site is shops Lavon's population cannot support. The bracket marks a realistic mixed build, net of a Walmart-style rebate. A data center certified under the standard exemption still pays local tax on its equipment and its power bill; one certified as a large project, which a hyperscale build on 79 acres almost certainly would be, pays no local sales tax at all for 20 years. Warehouses and offices produce essentially none. One-time construction and fit-out use tax is excluded for every use.

Sales Tax, in Plain Words

When you buy something in Lavon you pay 8.25 cents of tax on the dollar. The State of Texas takes 6.25 of those cents. The other two stay in town: one cent to the City's general fund, half a cent to street repair, and half a cent to the economic development corporation.

A store sells things across a counter every day, so it produces that penny every year. A data center, a warehouse or an office building sells nothing across a counter. The only sales tax it creates is on the things it buys: the building materials, the racks, the servers. That is mostly a one-time event when the place is built, and most of it is collected wherever the supplier is, not in Lavon.

So the chart above is simple to read. Shops and restaurants are the only bar with a yearly sales-tax stream, and even that bar is a ceiling: it imagines the whole site as stores, which Lavon's population cannot support. A realistic mix, after a rebate like the one the City just gave Walmart, is about a million dollars a year. Everything else on the list brings the City little or nothing in sales tax year to year.

The Data Center Sales Tax Break, in Plain Words

One More Thing on the Ballot This November

What Happened to the Tax Roll

Where these numbers come from

Midlothian is a city of about 44,000. Google employs roughly 100 people there. The steel mill and the Target distribution center employ about 1,250 each. The city grants Google an 85 percent abatement on real property and 100 percent on equipment.

Where these numbers come from

The buildings are largely tax exempt; the power running through them is not. But the same city abated $22.5 million in property taxes in one year, and the school district abated about $8,576 per student while enrollment stayed flat.

The Agreement Worth Reading Twice

And the detail that makes the rest land: the city states plainly that the developer is not receiving any tax breaks. Twenty million dollars in, zero abatement out.

Rules Other Places Wrote Down

The Mistakes That Keep Repeating

This is the part that matters most, because it is the only part anybody can act on. It is also where the author is least qualified, so it is written as questions with the law attached rather than as answers. None of this is legal advice.

Who Decides What

Nearly every worry raised about this site is decided by one of three bodies, and only one of them answers to Lavon voters.

This is the honest shape of the problem. The city's column is real and it is not nothing, but electricity, air permits and the state tax break are decided entirely somewhere else, by people who do not answer to Lavon voters.

The Moratorium

Incentives, and What the Policy Actually Says

Almost every recommendation here belongs to somebody specific, and sorting them that way makes it obvious which ones are currently nobody's job. None of this requires anyone to agree about whether a data center would be good or bad.

Questions Worth Putting on the Record

These are the questions I would ask, and they are written so that the answers can be checked afterwards rather than simply believed at the time.

• Can a new citywide noise or lighting rule reach these parcels before the nine-year Business Park freeze runs out in about October 2031? The City has said relevant code changes were approved. The useful version of this question asks for that in writing, and asks the same of Parcel 8 under Section 1.3.53.
• Has anything been filed for this land, and when?
• What would it take for Lavon to have an actual decibel limit, and what would enforcing one cost in equipment and staff time?
• What did the City ask for, and get, in December 2024 when this zoning was approved?
• If a buyer appears, what approvals would they still need from the Council?
• How many permanent jobs, and how many of those are the operator's own employees rather than contractors?
• How many backup generators, and how many hours a year will they run for testing?
• Which sales-tax exemption tier would the project certify under, and does the City see any of its two percent?
• How does a resident who supports a project make that known?

A Closing Note

This began as an attempt to answer one question: what is actually allowed on that land? I still do not know whether a data center will be built there. Nobody does, including the City, which has not received an application for one.

What I am fairly confident of is this. The traffic worry is misplaced. The jobs promise is smaller than it sounds. The water question depends entirely on one design choice that somebody should get in writing. The electricity question is real and is mostly decided in Austin, not here. And the most useful thing this town could do, regardless of whatever gets built on those 79 acres, is adopt a noise limit with an actual number in it.

If you think I got something wrong, I would genuinely like to know. Every number in here has a source, which means every number in here can be checked.