City Council to Take 2nd Reading on Data Center Zoning Rules, Consider Water Regulations

SAN ANGELO, TX — The San Angelo City Council and Planning Commission will hold a special joint meeting Tuesday morning to consider amendments to the city’s zoning and land development ordinances, followed immediately by the council’s regular meeting addressing proclamations, contracts, grants, data center regulations and other business.

The joint meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. in the second-floor Suite A at the McNease Convention Center, 501 Rio Concho Drive. The regular City Council meeting then follows in the South Meeting Room at the same address. Both meetings are open to the public and will be streamed live on the city’s YouTube channel and on SATV (Optimum channel 17). Public comment will be permitted. 

In the joint session, officials will hold first readings and public hearings on three sets of ordinances amending Chapter 12 of the Planning and Development code.

The first set would create new residential districts by amending the Zoning Ordinance, Exhibit A. Changes include Article 3 “Use Regulations,” Section 303 “Residential District Intent Statements”; Section 313 “Use Table”; Section 314 “Residential Structure Types”; and Article 5 “General Development Standards,” Section 501 “Residential District Standards.” Planning and Development Services Director Aaron Vannoy is scheduled to present. 

The second set amends the Land Development and Subdivision Ordinance, Exhibit C. It includes changes to Chapter 10 “Construction Standards and Specifications,” Section III “Widths and Graphic Specifications” to reduce required street widths; and Chapter 9 “Land Development and Subdivision Design Policies,” Section V “Sidewalks,” Subsection D “Where Sidewalks are Required.” Senior Planner Austin Reed will present. 

The third set addresses regulations for mobile food units. It amends the Zoning Ordinance with changes to Article 4 “Specific Use Standards,” Section 419 “Mobile Food Units”; Article 3 “Use Regulations,” Section 313 “Use Table”; Article 2 “Development Review,” Section 211 “Historic District Overlay Zone”; and Section 212 “River Corridor District Overlay Zone, Downtown District Overlay Zone, and Cultural District Overlay Zone.” Vannoy will present. 

The joint agenda also includes follow-up and administrative issues, followed by adjournment of the Planning Commission and then the City Council. 

The regular City Council meeting opens with a call to order, chaplain prayer and pledges, and proclamations and recognitions. Items include proclamations designating May 1, 2026, as Texas Trust Credit Union Day; May 20, 2026, as Texas Southwest Council of Scouting America Day; and May 25, 2026, as Memorial Day. The council will also recognize Rick Weise as a 250 Government Champion. 

Public comment on non-agenda items will follow, with speakers limited to three minutes or less. 

The consent agenda includes approval of minutes from the April 10 budget workshop, April 21 regular meeting, April 22 special meeting and May 5 regular meeting; granting a 2.967-acre supplemental easement and right-of-way to AEP Texas Inc. for the Red Creek Transmission Project; lease agreements for youth baseball and recreation at Ben Ficklin Field with Jeremy Bouher and for rooms at Santa Fe Crossing and Station 618 with The Vessel Church; rejection of bids for liquid ammonium sulfate and liquid chlorine; awarding a one-year contract with four one-year extensions for caustic soda to PVS DX Chemicals; a memorandum of understanding with the State of Texas/Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a secured parking facility at the Chase State Office Complex; an agreement with the Concho Valley Center for Human Advancement (d/b/a My Health My Resources) for community mental health programs totaling $80,500; an amendment extending an agreement with the Housing Authority of San Angelo for the HOME-ARP Homeless Veterans Case Management Program; amended resolutions supporting a Texas Department of Transportation highway safety improvement project grant and authorizing advanced funding agreements; amended resolutions for the San Angelo Police Department to apply for and accept an Office of the Governor victim assistance grant and a criminal justice training grant; and nominations to the Design and Historic Commission, Public Art Commission and Park Commission. 

The regular agenda includes consideration of a TIPS contract with CC3 Construction Consultants of Abilene for $428,304.72 for repair and replacement of two hangar roofs at the airport; first readings and public hearings on ordinances to abandon a portion of Waco Street in Block 55 and 48,423 square feet of street right-of-way on the 18th Street Bypass between 18th Street and North Poe Street; a zone change at 1212 N. Chadbourne St. from General/Heavy Commercial to General Commercial; a second reading of ordinances adopting land use regulations for data centers in light and heavy manufacturing zoning districts; and first readings on ordinances adopting data center regulations for waste water discharge and for water use in the San Angelo Code of Ordinances. The agenda also includes a closed session under the Texas Open Meetings Act, follow-up and administrative issues, announcements of future agenda items, and adjournment. 

Agenda: sanangelo.gov/CouncilAgenda

Public comment form: sanangelo.gov/PublicComment