Fieldstate monitors agendas, applications, and legal notices across local jurisdictions — surfacing consequential zoning, siting, and land-use decisions while there's still time to engage. Rezonings, data-center approvals, annexations, moratoriums: on the public record long before the headline.
Durham, NC The Durham Planning Commission has approved an annexation request, according to a decision made at its Jan. 5, 2026 meeting.
detected Jan 5Durham, NC The Durham Planning Commission has approved a special use permit application in a decision made at its May 26, 2026 meeting.
detected May 26Durham, NC The Durham Planning Commission has approved an annexation request at its Jan. 5, 2026 meeting.
detected Jan 5Durham, NC The Durham Planning Commission has approved a zoning variance request, according to a decision made at its meeting on February 24, 2026.
detected Jan 27Apex, NC The Apex, North Carolina Planning Board approved an item on its October 14, 2024 meeting agenda.
detected Oct 14Greenup County, KY — Greenup data-center moratorium, second reading
Ashland, KY — Ashland Planning Commission data-center zoning ordinance amendment hearing
Boyd County, KY — Boyd County data-center moratorium ordinance publication (30-day clock)
Rocky Mount, NC — Arrow Road/Dozier Road 171-acre rezoning (commercial -> heavy industrial, likely data center) -- vote outcome unconfirmed
Nash County, NC — Self-storage-warehouse conditional rezoning -- BOC public hearing 2026-07-13
Nash County, NC — Self-storage-warehouse conditional rezoning -- BOC public hearing 2026-07-13
Boyd County publishes no meeting agendas online — but Kentucky law requires published notice. A legal notice on July 7 disclosed a special meeting on a data-center moratorium; it passed July 9.
No national tracker lists a single Kentucky moratorium. Our corridor brief was in a developer's hands within 24 hours.
Two Durham proposals, two weeks apart: one drew twenty opposing speakers and failed 1–6; the other drew twelve and passed 4–3. Similar rooms, opposite results.
726decisions with real dates in one city's record, 2013–2026 — the history that tells these apart
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