Temple City Council Regular Meeting
Temple City Council reviewed a land swap agreement with Rowan Data Center releasing contracted acreage for expansion of the Temple municipal landfill alongside updated noise and setback standards for data center developments.
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Temple City Council Regular Meeting
Temple City Council · September 3, 2026
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- Clip 1 · 8:54 Brynn Myers, City Manager, City of Temple Board & Planning Staff Procedural auto captions, uncheckedZoning
Temple city staff reports on the agreement with Rowan Data Center to release contracted industrial acreage for the city's landfill expansion.
"identified as the only viable landfill expansion site for our community. Rowan had this property under contract and was prepared to buy it for a data center location. they um were they agreed to work with the city and allowed the city to take over the purchase of that uh property from the private property owner. So the city of Temple purchased that property"
- Clip 2 · 15:19 Temple Municipal Planning Staff Board & Planning Staff Procedural auto captions, uncheckedZoning Noise
Staff outlines Temple's development standards governing acoustic buffering, setbacks, and utility infrastructure for data centers.
"use regulations that are so restrictive that they function as a de facto ban. So what have you done um here in Temple? You have um you have introduced the following protections for data center developments. Um these data center developments specifically um through planned development conditions uh for Rowan. Um, and tonight you will hear a um request from city staff to consider"
- Clip 3 · 0:24 Temple City Council Member Elected Official Questioning auto captions, uncheckedZoning Noise
Temple City Council members deliberate on municipal siting standards, utility capacity, and the recorded ordinance action.
"water loss due to evaporation. there's really limited land acquisition and environ environmental disruption um when using an ASR system because you're using the natural underground geology for storage. Whereas with the reservoir um that can include significant land acquisition and environmental disruption because you're using large portions of surface land um in order to create"
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