DALLAS, Five Dallas City Council members asked in an Aug. 11, 2026 memorandum for a public hearing path to rewrite how the city regulates hyperscale data centers, which today are commonly slotted as “communications exchange facilities” allowed by right in many nonresidential zones under Dallas Development Code Section 51A-4.212(4). Councilmember Chad West’s filing, joined by … 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
PLANO , The North Texas Tollway Authority’s FY2026 Final Budget plans about $1.39 billion in NTTA System revenues, including $1.31 billion from tolls, while budgeting $273.1 million for the Operation and Maintenance Fund that keeps lanes open and customers served. NTTA does not collect property taxes. Tolls, service fees, and investment income fund the system. … Read more
AUSTIN / DALLAS-FORT WORTH , Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened a statewide investigation on Sept. 24, 2026, into hundreds of data center developments that have not answered the Texas Water Development Board’s water-use survey, and the Office of the Attorney General’s county list expressly includes Dallas and Tarrant. The probe is about reporting compliance, … 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
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
DALLAS — Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board of directors approved a $1.4 billion budget on Sept. 22, 2026, that returns some local funding to the agency’s 12 member cities under the General Mobility Program, according to KERA’s report of the board action. Board chair Randall Bryant said earlier in the month that the GMP is … Read more