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Council approves annexation and zoning for 157-acre data center site at city edge
Summary
The council approved a development agreement, annexation ordinance and a planned-development zoning to allow light-industrial/data-center development on about 157 acres at the southern edge of the city, with a stipulation barring cryptocurrency mining.
The Grand Prairie City Council approved companion items to annex about 157 acres near the Goodland development and to set the property’s zoning as a planned development for light-industrial data-center use.
City staff described item 18 as a development agreement tied to the annexation and item 33 as the public hearing and final reading of the annexation ordinance; item 45 was the zoning case creating a planned development district for the property. Staff said the PD would permit data-center buildings and an electrical substation and included conditions that explicitly disallow cryptocurrency (crypto-mining) uses.
The proposal includes up to six data-center buildings and site features such as landscaping and screening tied to the city’s PD standards. Staff said the PD would use the city’s existing building, landscape and screening standards. During the presentations, staff noted that developers expect to coordinate substation work with Encore (the regional utility).
The council approved the development agreement (item 18) and then closed the public hearing and approved the annexation ordinance (item 33). Later the council voted to approve the zoning case creating the planned development for light-industrial/data-center uses; the vote was recorded as 8–0 with Councilmember Hedden absent from the chamber at the final vote.
Opposition comments on the record came from property owners across Miller Road who expressed concern about property values and other neighborhood impacts; staff said those concerns were noted but that commercial outcomes can vary.
City staff will proceed with permitting steps for the development agreement and zoning; any future site-specific civil plans, noise or screening details, and substation coordination are subject to review under the PD standards and applicable permitting processes.
