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 26Cleveland County, NC Cleveland County, NC considered a $207.8M budget adoption: County Manager's FY 2026-2027 Recommended Budget.
pendingCleveland County, NC Cleveland County, NC considered a $117.6M budget adoption: FY 2026-2027 County Manager's Recommended Budget Presentation.
pendingDurham, NC The Durham Planning Commission has approved an annexation request at its Jan. 5, 2026 meeting.
detected Jan 5Greenup 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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