West Fort Worth: No Data Centers, Industrial & Multifamily Housing

0:00Developers in West Fort Worth are pushing to rezone 184 acres of land for industrial and multi-family housing, but they've scrapped, plans for a data center there. The site sits at the northwest corner of FM 1187 in Interstate 20, currently outside city limits in the extraterritorial, jurisdiction. They hope to get an annex after the Zoning Commission weighs in. The Zoning Commission meets this Wednesday to review the requests from Westwood professional services representing landowners like the John Henry Dean and Shirley Lawson Foundation and Stanrich companies. One parcel would go intensive, commercial, while the other mixes commercial, light industrial and dense residential uses. Local pushback from residents has hit hard, especially with data centers popping up across North Texas. District three council member Michael Crane, who reps that area, stepped in and got the developers to drop data centers from the mix entirely. In response, Westwood sent a letter asking to push the decision to the May 13th meeting and officially remove those uses.

1:02This follows the city council pausing a big tax deal for another data center near Benbrook on March 31st. Crane's now calling for a city staff report on data centers to dig deeper into the issues as more questions bubble up from council members and folks in the community. Stay informed with Dallas News Today, AI, Powered Updates. I'm Corey with the story.