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UID:meeting-1923@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Garner: Town Council Work Session
LOCATION:Ronnie S. Williams Council Chambers Garner Town Hall 900 7th Avenue | Garner\, NC 27529
DESCRIPTION:Town Council Work Session\n\nGarner's Town Council heard updates on the BRT South bus rapid transit project and Wake County's One Water Plan on September 30\, 2025\, and took up three local ordinance requests: a proposed Garner Youth Council\, a golf cart ordinance\, and an amendment to allow more backyard hens.\n\nAgenda: https://pub-townofgarner.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=4f5997fe-0feb-4caf-b049-70cb6f37ec11&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English\nWatch: https://pub-townofgarner.escribemeetings.com/\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1923
URL:https://pub-townofgarner.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=4f5997fe-0feb-4caf-b049-70cb6f37ec11&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T110000
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SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — BOC Growth & Economic Strength Committee
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Growth and Economic Strength Committee gets an introduction to tax increment grants\, a financing tool the county could use for development projects\, and holds a discussion on data centers at its November 3 meeting. The committee also hears an update from the Upper Neuse River Basin Association.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2025/11/6194_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-03_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/28
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6194&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T170000
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SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County commissioners take up a lease agreement for the Zebulon stadium with the Town of Zebulon and Capitol Broadcasting Company\, plus $8.5 million to fund field\, lighting and concession upgrades. The board also holds public hearings on a business development grant for Ypsomed and on adopting the Eastern Wake Area Plan as part of the county's comprehensive plan.\n\nOn consent\, the board considers additional federal transit funding\, a Durham-passed sub-recipient grant for the Sheriff's Office\, more money for WakeBrook renovations\, and November proclamations. The agenda also includes a manager's update on the federal government shutdown and several appointments to county boards and commissions.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2025/11/6193_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-03_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/27
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6193&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Climate Council holds a small-group discussion on AI's effects on climate\, led by UNC's sustainability lead\, Melanie Elliott. It also takes updates on a heat action plan\, a Community Climate Action grant program\, and a Year of Electrification effort. The council is a joint body of Orange County\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school boards and UNC.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2152
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-83@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T180000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners cleared a long\, mostly routine consent agenda covering appointments\, interlocal hazardous-waste agreements with Cary and Pittsboro\, a hazard mitigation plan\, budget amendments\, tax refunds\, a recycling grant\, and two zoning matters: a text amendment letting recreation facilities like gyms and yoga studios locate in Industrial Light districts\, and a 66-acre rezoning off Christian Chapel Church Road for a recreation facility. All consent items passed together on one motion.\n\nOutside the consent agenda\, the board adopted a resolution marking the Haw River Trail's 20th anniversary and one honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, took quarterly updates on ARPA funds and the FY26 budget\, and voted to hold a public hearing on February 11 to begin considering a moratorium on new data centers and crypto-mining facilities in the county. The board also went into closed session for attorney-client consultation before adjourning.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/1/1444_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-01-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/83
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1444&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-548@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T173000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Joint Town Council and Planning Board Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's Town Council and Planning Board will hold a joint work session where planning staff present research on data centers as a land use\, covering types of facilities\, energy and water consumption\, noise\, traffic\, and economic and environmental impacts. Staff will also compare how other municipalities regulate data centers. This is a briefing\, not tied to a specific site or application\, and there is no public comment period.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-5ca77687cb8c498ca158cc5743cb6213.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/548
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/joint-town-council-and-planning-board-work-session
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T190000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 22 January to debrief the report it gave the commissioners at their budget retreat and to take up the data center moratorium. Three members' terms were due to end on 28 February.\n\nNew business also covered Orange County's RIPPLE award for local environmental and climate work.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75641/639044967227270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4201
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51431/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-546@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T153000
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SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Town Council Work Session - January 2026
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex Town Council continues its review of data centers at this work session\, following up on a January 22 discussion with more detail on public health and safety impacts and how the town's approach compares to other municipalities. Fire Chief Tim Herman will also brief the council on accreditation progress\, the 2026 fire academy\, and capital improvement plans for five fire stations\, including the new Hunter Street Public Safety Campus.\n\nPolice Chief Ryan Johansen will update the council on staffing\, vehicle\, and space challenges\, plus a review of the department's Automated License Plate Reader program. The council closes by discussing the budget for the 2025 municipal election.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-61e7ed9bc5974d089cfe0ab34d8a5362.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/546
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/town-council-work-session-january-2026
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-36@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T170000
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SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Meeting Held Remotely
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe Wake County Board of Commissioners met February 2\, 2026 and adopted the Wake County One Water Plan as the county's 50-year water resource plan\, after a staff presentation and commissioner questions about municipal accountability\, data-center water demand\, and tree-planting programs. The board also approved a $25 million ceiling on 2026 limited obligation bonds\, additional CDC grant funds for public health\, and a construction-management-at-risk delivery method for two public safety projects\, all bundled into a single consent-agenda vote. Every recorded vote carried 7-0.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/2/6204_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-02-02_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/36
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6204&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T180000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners hold a special legislative public hearing on a proposed 12-month moratorium halting new permits for data centers\, data processing facilities\, and cryptocurrency mining operations in unincorporated Chatham County\, giving staff time to write zoning rules for these uses. The ordinance imposing the moratorium is adopted at the same meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/2/1446_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-02-11_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/84
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1446&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners open with a work session covering the county's FY2025 financial audit\, a resident satisfaction survey\, and a review of board rules of procedure. In the regular session\, an eight-item consent agenda handles routine business -- an NCDOT street resolution\, a resolution of intent to close part of NC Highway 902\, an amended Northeast District Park dam ordinance\, budget amendments\, tax refunds\, an economic-development contract increase\, private road naming\, and a 131-lot subdivision final plat. Separately\, the board adopts a Black History Month proclamation\, a resolution backing state juvenile-justice funding requests\, an amended project ordinance for Parkers Ridge Park\, and an $8.3 million construction contract with Blum Construction for the same park.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/2/1441_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-02-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/85
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1441&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Council Committee
LOCATION:Conference Room 11130\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Committee\n\nCary's Economic Development Committee\, a council committee that advises the Town Council rather than acting on its own\, meets Feb. 18 for its quarterly round of updates. Assistant Town Manager Scot Berry presents the town's second-quarter development figures\, and Cary Chamber of Commerce President Mark Lawson presents the chamber's economic development report covering job creation\, business recruiting and current projects. Interim Town Manager Russ Overton also addresses the committee for the first time in that role.\n\nNo items are scheduled for a vote. The agenda closes with open dialogue among committee members.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2765\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/350
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6148
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-4200@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 26 February to decide what to send the commissioners about Duke Energy. On the table were a resolution to Governor Stein and a letter asking the North Carolina Utilities Commission to weigh local government views when it rules on Duke's carbon plan and nuclear proposals.\n\nOld business was the data center moratorium. New business also covered community engagement and public-private partnerships for the climate action plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75866/639074482948830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4200
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51739/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4068@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board took one item on 3 March: an amendment to the subdivision regulations\, brought by the commissioners and the fire marshal\, adopting the North Carolina State Fire Code and its Appendix D by reference into the section on required improvements and design.\n\nThe planning director also reported on implementing the new development ordinance under Senate Bill 382\, the March public hearing items\, planning board training from the UNC School of Government\, and the data center moratorium.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75858/639074451128570000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4068
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51435/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-540@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nTwo items outside the routine flow of business stand out. The council will consider a one-year moratorium on data center construction in Apex\, proposed by Mayor Pro Tem Terry Mahaffey\, alongside a related proposal from Mayor Gilbert to form a committee to research impacts and make policy and transparency recommendations. The council also holds public hearings on the town's electric fee schedule (tied to detached-garage service)\, two small annexations (Jenks Road\, Green Level Church Road)\, and the opening of the FY2026-27 operating budget hearing.\n\nThe 16-item consent agenda includes a rezoning denial for Apex Baptist Church\, two annexations tied to rezoning cases\, several water/sewer and electric utility contracts\, an ordinance updating stop-and-yield traffic signage\, and UDO amendment paperwork. Three proclamations are on the agenda (Ask Apex Day\, Regional Creek Week\, Women's History Month)\, along with three board appointments (Board of Adjustment\, Environmental Advisory Board\, Planning Board) and a closed session for attorney-client consultation.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-46148cc140974cbe9efcbdb612542284.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/540
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-82
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4104@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Environmental Review Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Review Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Environmental Review Advisory Committee met by video on 12 March and put three subjects on its own list: researching data centers and advising the commissioners\, whether to look into the land application of municipal sewage sludge in the county\, and how the planning board receives the committee's environmental impact reviews.\n\nIt also discussed changes to the Fearrington Preserve environmental impact assessment. The data center proposal went to the Climate Change Advisory Committee on 26 March as a joint working group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75942/639083225183270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4104
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52247/775
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a one-year moratorium on data centers as a land use. Staff present the impacts of large-scale data centers - power and water demand\, environmental effects\, and costs that could shift onto other ratepayers. The county attorney lays out two moratorium options and a possible amendment to the development ordinance regulating the use. The board decides which\, if any\, to pursue.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/44?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1993
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center\, 1192 US Hwy 64 West\, Pittsboro\, NC 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is Chatham County's annual legislative breakfast\, a special meeting where the county\, the Town of Pittsboro\, the Town of Siler City\, Chatham County Schools\, and Central Carolina Community College each present their 2026 legislative priorities to the county's state legislative delegation. It's informational\, not a voting meeting.\n\nState legislators give remarks in response before the meeting adjourns.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/3/1450_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/87
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1450&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board - 1
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's Environmental Advisory Board met on 19 March 2026\, with data centers the main item. The town publishes no agenda or minutes for this board\, so this is written from the meeting's captions.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4fhQf9SkG0\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3103
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4fhQf9SkG0
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T150000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Growth\, Sustainability\, and Economic Strength Committee
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe Growth\, Sustainability\, and Economic Strength Committee takes up three briefings at this meeting: a staff review of the county's Business Development Grant Policy (last adopted in December 2023)\, an update on data center activity in Wake County\, and a progress update on the Triangle Bikeway regional trail project. None of these are votes\; they are informational items for the committee.\n\nThere is nothing routine-only about this agenda\, but nothing calls for a public hearing either. Residents who follow data center siting in the county or the regional bikeway network are the audience most likely to find something new here.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/3/6228_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-23_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/46
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6228&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's town council took seven public hearings on 24 March 2026\, most of them the same cases its planning board had reviewed two weeks earlier. Welch Homestead comes with both an annexation and a rezoning for up to 270 homes on about 83 acres north of Old US 1. Camp Branch Lane is a smaller rezoning off Holland Road\, and a third annexation covers two small parcels at 631 Wimberly Road.\n\nThree of the hearings deal with the Tingen Road railway crossing\, which closes when the Peakway Southwest connector bridge opens: the feasibility study for a pedestrian and cycle tunnel to replace it\, and two transportation plan amendments. The council also appointed the organizing board of directors for the Peak City Land Trust. Four closed sessions\, all on personnel\, were scheduled at the end.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-93c5cc793e77412f943cb32658159740.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/538
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-83
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4199@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 26 March. It took feedback from the commissioners' meeting two days earlier and a proposal from the Environmental Review Advisory Committee for a joint working group with the planning department to research the impacts of data centers.\n\nNew business was a discussion of available energy sources.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76465/639100310984470000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4199
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52255/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4066@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board elected its officers and took three subdivisions on 7 April: Conservancy Estates\, 45 lots on 57 acres off Conservancy Parkway\; Hickory Mountain Reserve\, 48 lots on 164.20 acres off Pleasant Hill Church Road\; and Webster Farm\, 132 lots on 182.98 acres off Buckner Clark Road.\n\nUnder board members' items staff presented on data centers\, their associated uses and their impacts in the county\, and the planning director reported on implementing the development ordinance under Senate Bill 382.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76475/639104775217670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4066
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52237/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board's main land-use item is a general-use rezoning and development agreement for 13.44 acres at 715 US Hwy 70 East\, from Assisted Living Neighborhood to Multifamily\, to allow up to 67 attached dwelling units on a parcel that was originally master-planned for a retirement campus that never got built. This item is being tabled rather than decided at this meeting. The board also takes up a staff-proposed reorganization that would merge Public Works\, Public Space & Sustainability\, and Stormwater & Environmental Services into a single "Community Services and Sustainability" department\, prompted by a manager's resignation\, and a request from the Hillsborough Youth Athletic Association for stricter trespassing enforcement against unhoused people camping near its ball field.\n\nMost of the rest is routine consent-agenda business: budget amendments\, three capital-project ordinance amendments for water/sewer plant upgrades\, a year-end audit contract\, a legal-services agreement with the town attorney's firm\, a reappointment to the Parks and Recreation Board\, and a resolution opposing a proposed state constitutional amendment that would limit local governments' property tax authority (tied to an active NC House committee process). Financial impacts on the rezoning are described as low to moderate\, with private streets and trash collection.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-ccc861b4797c402ea3646d913f1e473f.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-39\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1740
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-39
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-537@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nTwo public hearings stand out on an otherwise routine Apex council agenda: a proposed 12-month moratorium on accepting or approving new development applications for data centers\, cryptocurrency mining\, and related data-processing uses\, and the annual public hearing on the town's fiscal year 2026-27 operating budget. A third hearing covers a 2-acre annexation on Twin Creek Road\; a separate 5-acre annexation on the same road is moving through on the consent agenda as a distinct case.\n\nThe rest of the meeting is routine business: 17 consent items covering service agreements (solid waste consortium\, event vendors\, a wastewater flow-data contract)\, five annexations including a 120-acre tract tied to the large Veridea development\, a tax report\, and board appointments to the culture and arts\, transportation\, and parks and recreation advisory boards. A council member is sponsoring a resolution to create a task force on community resilience and wellbeing. Two items — a memorandum of understanding with NC Children's Hospital and an automated license plate reader program update — were pulled from the agenda before the meeting and did not come up for consideration.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-a15ff460a2124bfc982fccec92075906.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/537
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-84
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4065@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Emergency Operations Center\, 112 Innovation Way Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board held its first working session on data centers on 14 April\, two months into the twelve-month moratorium the commissioners had adopted in February. Staff presented the research behind the question and the board set out what it wanted to settle in the time it had.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76515/639113375963570000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4065
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52515/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-1378@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Planning Board Regular
DESCRIPTION:6. Planning Board (PB)\n\nPittsboro's planning board had four unified development ordinance amendments on 20 April and staff recommended approval of all four: the defined terms in Section 12.12\, the wetland protection standards in Section 4.5\, the annexation procedure in Section 10.4.17\, and the accessory use and structure table in Section 3.3.4.\n\nEach carried a consistency statement for the board to adopt alongside its recommendation. The board's role here is advisory\; the commissioners held the public hearings and adopted all four on 11 May.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-491?html=true\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1378
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-491?html=true
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County holds its public hearing on a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use - explicitly including artificial intelligence data centres\, cryptocurrency mining and data processing facilities. Also on the agenda: a $1.7 million loan to a volunteer fire district\, and a discussion of the county's communications approach. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4198@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 23 April. Two members reported back on a data center briefing\, and the committee discussed what research or advice it should give the planning department as the county writes its rules.\n\nNew business was an outline for widening community engagement in the county's climate action plan. The committee also noted the planning board's 12 May special meeting on data centers\, to be held at the emergency operations center and streamed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76783/639122870325530000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4198
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52257/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1573@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260505
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council holds a public hearing on an ordinance for a 24-month moratorium on new data centers\, cryptocurrency mining and related high-impact data-processing facilities citywide. The same meeting includes economic-development incentive agreements for two small building-renovation projects and four annexation hearings on the city's western and eastern edges.\n\nThe consent agenda is dominated by utility and infrastructure contracts: a $9 million-plus amendment to the city's ERP software contract with IBM\, engineering work on two water-system pump stations\, and design work on the Central Durham Bus Rapid Transit project.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3303\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1573
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3303
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2937@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Town Hall Council Chamber\, 73 Hunter Street\, Apex
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Apex Planning Board recommended three development ordinance amendments on 11 May 2026 and\, for a second time\, recommended against expanding the duties of the town's Environmental Advisory Board. It also backed a change to the thoroughfare map tied to a development at 2320 Ten Ten Road.\n\nApex publishes no agenda document for this meeting. This account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2937
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/182/Planning-Board
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1738@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe Hillsborough Board of Commissioners considers Tourism Board appointments and a consent agenda that includes a resolution to submit the town's FY2026-27 HOME Annual Action Plan to Orange County and a state cybersecurity partnership. It also hears a Strategic Plan update and a Fiscal Year 2027-29 recommended budget presentation\, and discusses data centers as a land-use and utility issue ahead of a May 27 hearing on a proposed 60-day moratorium on data-center development.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-8afc1128c5424f7aa06851284898e191.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-32\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1738
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-32
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4063@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Emergency Operations Center\, 112 Innovation Way Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board heard the case for data centers on 12 May. Michael Smith\, president of the county's Economic Development Corporation\, came to make it\, followed by a staff presentation on the use and its impacts. The board then discussed what it was worried about and what it still needed to find out.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/76950/639138434642830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4063
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53055/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-1895@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T180018
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T200018
SUMMARY:Town of Garner: Town Council Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Ronnie S. Williams Council Chambers Garner Town Hall 900 7th Avenue | Garner\, NC 27529
DESCRIPTION:Town Council Regular Meeting\n\nThe council adopts a temporary moratorium ordinance on data centers\, data processing facilities\, cryptocurrency mining\, and similar undefined uses\, giving staff time to study the impacts and draft permanent rules for the town's development ordinance -- joining a wave of similar moratorium proposals moving through other Triangle-area governments this summer. The council also holds a public hearing on\, and is asked to approve\, a large voluntary annexation: about 141 acres at 5100 Raynor Road for Gregory Poole Equipment's second headquarters site\, plus the required public hearing on the FY27 recommended budget presented at the May 5 meeting.\n\nOn the consent agenda: surplus of a town vehicle being replaced under the FY26 fleet replacement program\, and an update to the town's ARPA (federal pandemic relief) financial policies to match current federal guidance. The meeting also recognizes the town and the Garner Juneteenth Committee for four Excellence in Communications awards\, and gets updates on a litter cleanup campaign\, development services activity\, and economic development.\n\nAgenda: https://pub-townofgarner.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=3da2095c-3703-42b9-92fd-2c08c456f93d&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English\nWatch: https://pub-townofgarner.escribemeetings.com/\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1895
URL:https://pub-townofgarner.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=3da2095c-3703-42b9-92fd-2c08c456f93d&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1736@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Work Session and Budget Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nHillsborough's board holds a public hearing and then decides whether to impose a 60-day development moratorium on data centers as a land use -- an ordinance that would temporarily block new development approvals for data centers\, cryptocurrency mining operations\, and any use tied to data center processing facilities in town. The board also gets a briefing on a SecureNC partnership with the state Department of Information Technology\, which is likely related to the same data-center policy question\, and holds its second FY2027 budget workshop.\n\nOn the consent agenda: miscellaneous budget amendments and transfers\, a Pride Month proclamation\, and a Gun Violence Awareness Day proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-010ac9061d25490dbc9b72e204d71b08.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-and-budget-workshop\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1736
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-and-budget-workshop
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-411@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council opened the door to a data center moratorium on May 28. A council-initiated item asked staff to study pausing approval of new large-scale data centers\, including AI facilities\, while the town looks at what they do to land use\, transportation\, water\, utilities and the environment. Jordan Lake\, the region's drinking water source\, was named as the reason.\n\nThe night also carried two rezonings and the first of two public hearings on the recommended FY 2027 budget. One rezoning\, an amendment to the Sears Farm planned development for 87 townhouses at High House Road\, drew organized opposition from the neighboring Searstone retirement community. The other\, 275 multi-family units and ground-floor retail replacing aging offices on Weston Parkway\, came back after nine months of revisions.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2810&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/411
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6191
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4197@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 28 May with two carried-over items: an expanded community engagement proposal for the county's climate action plan\, and an update on data centers from the county's environmental quality director.\n\nThe committee meets monthly through the year and set its next meeting for 25 June. Thirteen voting members\, seven for a quorum.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77049/639153826785670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4197
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52259/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1542@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA morning work session where the county first asks itself what it needs to know about data centres. Also on the agenda: the final recommended 2027 transit work programme\, the annual funding plan for outside agencies\, hospital board appointments\, and a rules suspension to pass a budget amendment.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1545\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1542
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1545
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-4062@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board took two cases on 2 June. Margus Properties and The Towers asked for a special use permit for a 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower at 460 Murchison Road in Goldston\, heard as a quasi-judicial matter. EC PROPCO asked to rezone 292.288 acres off Christian Chapel Church Road in Cape Fear Township from residential to heavy industrial.\n\nUnder board members' items the board opened its first discussion of data centers\, their associated uses and their potential impacts in Chatham County. That subject took over the board's summer: special meetings followed on 14 July\, 18 August\, 8 September and 15 September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77051/639153857925770000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4062
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52275/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3876@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Town Hall Council Chamber\, 73 Hunter Street\, Apex
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Apex Planning Board takes up a rezoning that would amend the Horton Park planned unit development\, raising its unit cap from 250 to 335 homes on the way to a total range of 450 to 850. At stake is whether the board recommends the 16.96-acre PUD-conditional zoning change\, filed by PRMS Investment LLC for parcels at 8252 Smith Road and 0 Jessie Drive\, to the town council.\n\nStaff lay out two phasing options for the project's off-site road work\, including extending Gladsong Road to Smith Road and adding a signal at Jessie Drive and Ten Ten Road. The board also considers approval of its May 11 meeting minutes.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3876
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/182/Planning-Board
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1735@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nHillsborough's Board of Commissioners takes up adoption of its Fiscal Year 2027 Budget on June 8\, alongside FY2027 budgets for both the Tourism Development Authority and the Tourism Board. The consent agenda includes a capital project ordinance amendment for a sodium hypochlorite conversion (a water treatment change)\, a water and sewer extension contract for Collins Ridge Phase II\, and a Riverwalk encroachment agreement for 183 Faribault Lane. The board also considers a resolution asking Orange County commissioners to appoint Eddie Sain to the Board of Adjustment as an extraterritorial jurisdiction member.\n\nThe board recognizes Juneteenth Independence Day under a standing perpetual proclamation and proclaims National Pollinator Week\, hears a Safe Kids Orange Coalition presentation\, and previews hot topics for its June 22 work session. Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so the outcome of the FY2027 budget vote is not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-3fc2f4c62919442ebb7a68036098e3f0.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-33\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1735
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-33
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4101@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Environmental Review Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Review Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Environmental Review Advisory Committee met by video on 11 June to review the environmental impact assessment for Floresta Springs\, the 83-lot subdivision off Alex Cockman and Elmer Keck Roads that reached the planning board on 1 September.\n\nThe committee also took liaison reports from the planning board and the Climate Change Advisory Committee\, and an update on data centers.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77172/639165222889170000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4101
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53195/775
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Town Council Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nHolly Springs held a public hearing on 16 June on an up-to-twelve-month moratorium on data center applications. Staff told the council the town's ordinance has defined data centers since 2011 and last touched the definition in the 2020-21 update\, and that the use has changed enough since then that the definition is out of date. Modern facilities draw heavily on electricity and water.\n\nThe rest of the night was a consent agenda carrying end-of-year budget amendments\, the voluntary annexation of Veridea S Village East\, and a design change order on Holly Springs Road\, plus three proclamations and an overview of the festival street design project.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2194\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1226
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/643/overview
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623
SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Special Joint Session of the Board of Commissioners-Executive Meeting with Chatham County\, Town of Siler City and Town of Goldston 6pm
DESCRIPTION:1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)\n\nPittsboro's Board of Commissioners met on June 22\, 2026 in a special joint session with the Chatham County Board of Commissioners and the Boards of Commissioners of Goldston and Siler City\, each calling its own meeting to order in the same room at the Chatham County Agricultural Center. The session was informational: officials heard updates on the Scale Chatham economic-development effort and the TriRiver regional water project\, and all four governments took turns presenting their own year's highlights. No votes were taken on the substance\; Pittsboro's own board adjourned on a 5-0 vote.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/621
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-1465@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Special Joint Session of the Board of Commissioners-Executive Meeting with Chatham County\, Town of Siler City and Town of Goldston
DESCRIPTION:1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)\n\nA joint session on 22 June bringing Chatham County's commissioners together with Pittsboro\, Siler City and Goldston. Each government gave its annual highlights\, and the county and towns took a TriRiver Water update — the regional utility that now runs water and sewer for much of the county.\n\nThe session opened with a Scale Chatham presentation from the NC IDEA Foundation\, the entrepreneurship program that came back to Pittsboro's commissioners in September. This account is written from the item list the town published\; the agenda document was not reachable when it was written.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1465
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nHillsborough's Board of Commissioners holds a public hearing June 22 on an ordinance imposing a one-year development moratorium on data centers as a land use -- extending an existing 60-day moratorium to a full year under state law (G.S. 160D-107) so the town can study the use before deciding how to regulate it. The board also takes up a general use rezoning and development agreement for 715 US Highway 70 East\, converting an assistive living neighborhood designation to multifamily.\n\nOn the consent agenda: a staff-initiated text amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance covering Historic District Commission administration\, a rezoning request for 515 Meadowlands Drive\, a special event permit for Hog Day 2026\, the FY2027 salary schedule\, and a capital project ordinance amendment for the NC86 facility renovation. Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so the outcome of the data center moratorium hearing and any public comment on it are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-36caa332171b4152bb40fd7e4b873a9b.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-28\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1734
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-28
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nHolly Springs' Planning Board takes up two rezoning cases on June 23: 22-REZ-02 for Meridian at Sunset Commons and 25-REZ-09 for New School Montessori. As an advisory board\, it can only recommend each case\; the Town Council decides.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2201\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1227
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/653/overview
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4196@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 25 June with data center rules and the climate action plan procurement in front of it. The planning board had by then received the committee's core principles and guidance document for regulating data centers.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77311/639177396606530000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4196
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52261/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1229@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260707T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260707T170000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Land Use Advisory Committee
DESCRIPTION:Development Review Committee\n\nHolly Springs' Land Use Advisory Committee met July 7 for a short agenda: approving April minutes\, then two items under Requests and Communications -- a matter concerning 1601 Avent Ferry Road\, and the first meeting of a data center study. The data center study suggests the town is beginning to look at how it will handle data center development\, a use with growing local interest across the region.\n\nOnly the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so no details or outcomes from either item are recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2204\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1229
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/718/overview
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4060@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Emergency Operations Center\, 112 Innovation Way Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board spent 14 July on the technical limits it might write into data center rules: noise\, vibration and light\, heat emissions\, generators and back-up power\, and water use. Staff opened with the timeline for the moratorium the commissioners adopted on 11 February and a legal review\, and the vice chair introduced each subject in turn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77434/639195376605670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4060
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53424/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4195@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 30 July. Its recommendation for an extended data center moratorium had gone to the planning department\, and the committee took an update on where it stood. The other standing item was the climate action plan\, where the county had just hired Blue Strike as its consultant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77621/639207643012500000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4195
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52263/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1522@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA morning work session with 160 minutes of discussion\, opening with half an hour of citizen comments. The three big items: comprehensive plan policy changes going to a hearing the following week\, an hour on a draft data centre moratorium\, and an hour on the capital improvement plan. The board also starts putting together its statewide legislative asks for 2027 and names a voting delegate to the state association's conference.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1552\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1522
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1552
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1235@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T170000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Land Use Advisory Committee
DESCRIPTION:Development Review Committee\n\nHolly Springs' land use advisory committee held the second of its data center study sessions. The agenda carried nothing else but minutes and adjournment.\n\nThe study exists because the town cannot ban data centers. Staff told the committee that North Carolina General Statute 160D-107 does not allow a local government to prohibit them outright\, so the questions in front of the committee are where they should be allowed and what standards should apply to limit their effects. The committee's recommendation goes to town council at the end of the series.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=3217\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1235
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/671/overview
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4057@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board met on 18 August to write data center rules rather than to debate whether to have them. The commissioners had directed it to regulate the use rather than prohibit it\, and after two open meetings and a round of public comment the board had a redline draft of ordinance changes to work through line by line.\n\nThe agenda was three items: overarching regulations for data centers\, a review of the proposed text amendments\, and the July minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77834/639221413042270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4057
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53894/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-2934@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's environmental advisory board reviews two rezoning cases on its August 20 agenda: the Prince Farms planned unit development\, case 26CZ09\, and Veridea Expansion V\, case 26CZ10. The board advises the town council on environmental policy and reviews rezonings for their environmental effects\, so what it says here reaches the council before the council votes.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is the board's own housekeeping and one discussion item. Four sets of draft minutes are up for approval: two regular meetings\, three months of data center subcommittee minutes and two months of tree canopy subcommittee minutes. Under old business\, the vice-chair brings suggested zoning conditions\, and the agenda notes that a motion to recess into a work session has to happen on the livestream.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UYU7i3aXq8\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2934
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UYU7i3aXq8
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1525@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nNinety minutes of the two-hour agenda go to one public hearing: whether Durham County should stop accepting applications for large data centers while it works out how to regulate them. Also on the agenda\, a fourteen-item consent list including the county's proposed statewide legislative goals for 2027\, easements for a stream restoration that would cut flood risk in a mobile home park\, and a new governance structure for the county and city's homelessness continuum of care.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1555\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1525
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1555
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1509@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Morrisville: Town Council
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nMorrisville's council took its first briefing on data centers as a body on 27 August 2026. Two staff from the Central Pines Regional Council\, which had spent about a year gathering water\, power\, zoning and best-practice material for its member governments\, gave a state and regional overview.\n\nThe council also worked through a draft Key to the Town policy and held a roundtable among its own members.\n\nAgenda: https://morrisville.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=5&event_id=1384\nWatch: https://morrisvillenc.new.swagit.com/views/default/\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1509
URL:https://morrisville.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=5&event_id=1384
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-458@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council considers an 18-month moratorium on accepting or processing data center and cryptocurrency-mining development applications\, exempting on-site equipment that draws under a megawatt\, while staff study power demand\, water use\, noise and site design and draft permanent rules. It also holds a hearing on annexing 8.99 acres at 4312 Jacobs Creek Lane\, tied to a rezoning for up to 16 detached houses\, with a vote deferred to a later meeting so the two can be decided together.\n\nA twelve-item consent agenda would authorize contracts including $905\,200 for engineering on the Western Wake Regional Water Reclamation Facility expansion\, a $4.14 million bid to rebuild the Cary Tennis Park courts\, and adoption of the ENGAGE and MOVE chapter updates to the Imagine Cary plan. Council also considers making permanent a parking ban on East Cedar Street.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2843&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/458
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4194@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 27 August with data centers and the county's climate action plan as its two standing questions. Members took an update on their meeting with Duke Energy about data centers and asked what the committee should do next. The climate action plan update covered a proposal from the Blue Strike consultancy\, the steering committee behind it\, and what the committee's advisory role becomes once that work is under way.\n\nNew business was a community and business recognition program and whether to return to meeting in person\, which the committee set for 24 September. The county's environmental quality director reported to the committee\, and the agenda carries the full roster: thirteen voting members\, seven for a quorum.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77904/639231728935830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4194
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52265/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1239@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T170000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Land Use Advisory Committee
DESCRIPTION:Development Review Committee\n\nHolly Springs' Land Use Advisory Committee meets primarily to hear two land-use items\, neither requiring a vote. First\, McAdams\, representing owner Laura Holloman\, will discuss an early-stage rezoning request for roughly 17.2 acres at 4312 & 0 Friendship Road\, from Rural Residential to Business Research & Technology Conditional District\, to build a 208\,520-square-foot industrial and warehouse building next to the existing Amgen site\; staff has already flagged the proposal as inconsistent with the town's Comprehensive Plan\, and the committee's role is informal feedback\, not approval.\n\nSecond\, the committee continues its study of data centers under the town's 12-month moratorium\, Ordinance 26-19\, adopted in June to give staff time to draft zoning standards for the use before any application can move forward. Central Pines Council of Governments will brief the committee on data center technology\, regional impacts\, and how other jurisdictions regulate them\, and staff will share results from the town's public engagement portal. No formal action is scheduled beyond approving the prior meeting's minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=3229\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1239
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/696/overview
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2933@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Advisory Board\n\nApex's environmental advisory board has a data center subcommittee\, and on 2 September it heard from two outside experts rather than taking any action. David Payne of the NC Department of Environmental Quality was down to cover regulatory processes\, permitting and where the agency currently stands. Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam was to cover cooling methods\, their efficiencies and their environmental impacts.\n\nThe subcommittee exists to gather information on data centers and to work up amendments to the town's Unified Development Ordinance. Nothing was scheduled for a vote. Cooling is the substance of the water question that has followed data center proposals across this region\, so a presentation on it is the groundwork for whatever ordinance language the board eventually recommends.\n\nAgenda: https://www.apexnc.org/DocumentCenter/View/56115/090226-Data-Center-Agenda\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2933
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/1348/Environmental-Advisory-Board-EAB
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2932@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Advisory Board\n\nA three-member subcommittee of Apex's Environmental Advisory Board\, set up to gather information about data centers and work toward development ordinance amendments covering them. This meeting is given to two academic presentations on environmental impact: one on pollution across several pathways and the water a data center requires\, and one on energy systems\, grid impacts and sustainability. No decisions are on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.apexnc.org/DocumentCenter/View/56114/090826-Data-Center-Agenda\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2932
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/1348/Environmental-Advisory-Board-EAB
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4055@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board met remotely on 8 September for one thing: finishing the redline of its data center text amendments. It had reached Section D\, noise mitigation standards\, when it stopped on 18 August\, and staff wanted the document with the county attorney by mid to late September.\n\nThe only other business was the minutes of that 18 August meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78096/639239646610270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4055
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/55165/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4054@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board met remotely on 15 September with the county attorney\, Emily Meeker of Poyner & Spruill\, to go through the procedures the board works under and its role in them. The board had asked for the session while writing its data center rules\, after the attorney advised that one of its proposals would conflict with Senate Bill 382.\n\nOther business was reserved for further data center discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78158/639249827780930000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4054
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/55167/198
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-3858@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Advisory Board\n\nThe Environmental Advisory Board will hear a presentation from Stormwater Specialist II Racheal Gamble on the town's public involvement duties under its federal stormwater permit. She will ask board members to help find new sites for storm drain marking\, stream cleanups and invasive species removal.\n\nThe board will also receive draft minutes from its Tree Canopy and Data Center subcommittees\, covering meetings from late August and early September. Members will vote on which subcommittees they serve on. Minutes from the board's own August 20 meeting won't be ready until the October 15 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.apexnc.org/DocumentCenter/View/56266/091726-EAB-Agenda-Packet\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3858
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/1348/Environmental-Advisory-Board-EAB
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4211@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Solid Waste & Recycling Main Facility\, 28 County Services Road Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27330
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee will take up data centers first. Under old business the agenda lists an update on data centers and a judge's ruling\, with two questions beneath it: what the county's response is\, and where the draft data center regulations stand. The agenda does not say which case or ruling is meant.\n\nThe committee will also get an update on the county's Climate Action Plan and a proposal from Blue Strike\, including the plan's steering committee and what advisory role the committee should play from here. Under new business\, member Deb Gallagher will raise a recognition program for residents and businesses. Kevin Lindley\, the county's director of solid waste and sustainability\, will report. The meeting is in person at 28 County Services Road in Pittsboro. The next one\, on 22 October\, is on Zoom.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78224/639255782391270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4211
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/55490/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261007
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners receive the final report Tuesday night from GAR Associates\, the firm hired in May to audit the 2025 property revaluation after residents and board members questioned it. GAR finds the values meet the minimum statistical standards but that several office practices do not. It recommends a true sales-comparison approach for homes\, a new land valuation strategy and a statistical appraisal specialist on staff. The only public hearing is on fiscal 2028 transit grant applications seeking $515\,928.\n\nThe 23-item consent agenda carries $251\,517 in property tax refunds\, new agreements with eight rural fire departments\, and a $135\,000 salary for Register of Deeds Amy McLamb. It also awards the county's federal HOME-ARP rental assistance money to Housing for New Hope\, the only applicant\, and endorses the Andrews House\, a 1950s Modernist home\, for the National Register. Information memos set out a schedule for data center rules\, with a hearing expected in March 2027\, and report bus ridership up 52% to 137% under the fare-free pilot.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/73?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4713
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T010007Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261006T150000
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SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Land Use Advisory Committee
DESCRIPTION:Development Review Committee\n\nHolly Springs' Land Use Advisory Committee holds the fourth meeting of its data center study Tuesday afternoon. The town's Utilities and Infrastructure department presents on the water\, wastewater and environmental side of data centers\, including the town's existing and future capacity. No action is requested. The council adopted a moratorium of up to 12 months on data center applications on 16 June\, and this committee is drafting the recommendations for new zoning rules.\n\nThe packet attaches the town's online survey results for 25 August to 28 September: 68 participants\, 286 responses and 51 comments\, most of them opposed to data centers in town over water\, power costs and noise. It also carries state wildlife commission guidance and a School of Government article on data center zoning. The committee approves its 1 September minutes\, which record staff and council members telling Longleaf Industrial that a 208\,520-square-foot speculative warehouse on Friendship Road does not fit the town's Innovation Village plan.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=3247\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1248
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/745/overview
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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