Residents urge transparency, environmental review as data‑center annexation advances

Oct 15, 2025

During public forum and a public hearing, residents urged the City of Harmony to require environmental review, avoid NDAs with developers and write zoning safeguards before contracting for a proposed data‑center site; council members said annexation is a procedural step that does not commit the city to a project.

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Community members pressed the council to require robust public review before any contract for a proposed data‑center is signed. Resident Dennis DeCarol thanked organizers for a town hall but said "there's still a lot of suspicion" and urged the council to "address that suspicion" and pursue transparency in planning and zoning.

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