Episode Thirty-Three - Council Wrap Up (8/20/26) and Reflections

Thursday's special meeting produced the strongest finding this show has surfaced all season: sworn testimony that the data center zoning amendment at the heart of this fight may never have been legally initiated in the first place. Fourteen people spoke. Seven raised the same specific legal question about whether either ordinance actually meets the standard for an emergency. Council asked zero follow-up questions, three separate times. Two council members carried nearly all the substantive engagement in the room. Two others never spoke at all. One ordinance passed that night with its emergency clause intact, no referendum window. The other...