Denton council holds an Oct. 13 hearing on code changes that would end by-right data centers, triple the residential buffer to 300 feet, ban evaporative cooling and require grid approvals before a permit reaches an agenda.
Plano voters will decide whether the city can levy up to five venue taxes for a city-owned arena at The Shops at Willow Bend. The city’s own financing summary lists the venue-tax revenue as under review and says council still must approve a final deal.
Dallas has one city bond question on the Nov. 3 ballot: a $443 million public safety package split across five projects. The city’s fact sheet shows only the police training center at UNT Dallas has a finished design.
GARLAND, The Garland City Council adopted the fiscal year 2026-27 operating budget and a property tax rate of 67.99 cents per $100 of taxable value on Aug. 17, 2026, about one cent lower than the current rate, while calling a November tax-rate election that would ask voters to shift three cents from debt service to … Read more
MCKINNEY, McKinney City Council adopted an approximately $880.5 million Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget on Sept. 1, 2026, and held the city property tax rate at $0.412284 per $100 of taxable value, the same total as the prior year, according to the city’s official news release and budget table. The all-funds total on the city’s Budget … Read more
MCKINNEY , Collin County Commissioners Court kept the county property tax rate at $0.149343 per $100 of taxable value for fiscal year 2026, the 33rd consecutive year without a rate increase, while adopting a Total Combined Budget (excluding bond funds) of $599.2 million. The Senate Bill 2 cover statement required on the adopted budget says … Read more
DALLAS , Dallas City Council approved a Fiscal Year 2026-27 operating and capital budget totaling $5.66 billion, including a $2.05 billion General Fund, and cut the property tax rate by one-tenth of a cent to 69.78 cents per $100 of valuation, according to the city’s official Sept. 16, 2026 release. The fiscal year began Oct. … Read more
FORT WORTH — Fort Worth City Council unanimously tabled a proposed 50% property tax abatement for Edged Data Centers’ planned $1 billion facility on about 186 acres at Veale Ranch during its March 31, 2026 meeting, after council members and residents pressed for clearer local benefits, noise and water limits, and grid oversight. The item, … Read more
GRAND PRAIRIE — The City of Grand Prairie published a Texas Tax Code public notice that its City Council would consider a tax abatement agreement with Amazon Data Services, Inc. for a large-scale data center campus estimated at $10 billion in improvements, about 800,000 square feet of space, and roughly 750 new full-time jobs over … Read more
DENTON — Denton City Council held the first of two required public hearings on Sept. 22, 2026, on a proposed 90-day moratorium on new data-center development, as Core Scientific, the city’s largest data-center operator, has approached Denton Municipal Electric about leasing more public land south of its current site. The pause would give council time … Read more