The San Marcos City Council received a presentation and held public comment over a future data center — unrelated to the Cloudburst Data Center that is slated to be developed in the same area — which would be located on approximately 200 acres on 904 Francis Harris Lane. John Mayberry, the developer, was requesting a change in the Preferred Scenario Map from Conservation/Cluster to Commercial/Employment Low, and, if approved, the applicant would be requesting a zoning change to Character Districts and Light Industrial. The first vote on the item will occur at the July 1 meeting.
San Marcos City Council Member Amanda Rodriguez said the fiscal impacts of the project should not be the most important factor in decision making.
“I really want you all to understand that it's very tone deaf to only talk about the potential fiscal impacts of this project,” Rodriguez said. “The fiscal impacts are not lost on us, especially given the fiscal constraints we are living in and will likely continue to live in. We really have to stop leading with that point. There are things more important like life, than leading with the dollar.”
