Case ZONE-26-0007 · Town of Prosper
Our Homes.
Our Water.
Our Kids.
We planted our families here. Now a Dallas developer wants to rezone 39.3 acres at FM 1385 and Parvin Road — beside our neighborhoods and a Prosper ISD elementary school — for a data center.
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What is actually being asked for
They have to rewrite the Town's own plan to make this fit.
This is not a building permit on land already zoned for it. White Rose Partners is asking Prosper for two things at once — and the second one is the tell.
Request one
A rezoning to Planned Development
39.3 acres on the southeast corner of FM 1385 and Parvin Road, in Denton County, next to the existing Brazos Electric "Parvin" substation. The developer's own materials describe roughly 37 acres with buildings on under 20% of the site.
Request two
An amendment to the Future Land Use Plan
The Town's adopted plan does not contemplate this use here. Rather than meet the plan, the application asks the Town to change the plan. Every family who bought nearby relied on that document to know what could be built next to them.
Where
FM 1385 & Parvin Road
Northwest Prosper. The nearest large residential community is Sutton Fields, and the closest school is Dan Christie Elementary — a Prosper ISD campus that opened in 2023 inside that neighborhood. A separate application for Prosper Oaks, up to 525 age-restricted homes, sits on the south side of Parvin Road about 2,070 feet east of FM 1385 — the same side of the same road.
The number that matters
The "protective" noise limit is 25 decibels louder than the level the WHO says protects sleep.
The developer has volunteered a cap of 65 dBA at the property boundary, and describes a goal of no perceptible sound at neighboring property lines. Put that number on a scale and it speaks for itself.
Because decibels are logarithmic
65 dBA is not "a bit above" 40 dBA. The scale is logarithmic, so the gap between the voluntary cap and the WHO's nighttime guideline is enormous — and it applies at 3 a.m. exactly as it does at noon.
Measured at the fence, not the window
A property-boundary limit is a limit at their fence line. Residential noise is normally regulated where people actually sleep, and normally steps down at night. This single number does neither.
And on the worst days, it is generators
Under Texas SB 6 (2025), ERCOT can order large loads to curtail or switch to backup generation during grid emergencies — which arrive on the hottest days of a Texas summer, when windows are open and kids are outside.
Prosper regulates noise under Article 8.06, amended by Ordinance 2026-12 in March 2026, which reaches sound within 500 feet of any residence. If the Town's own nighttime limit is below 65 dBA, then the developer's "voluntary" commitment is weaker than the law already requires — and the Commission should say so on the record.
Fair questions, unanswered
We are being asked to accept numbers with nothing holding them in place.
We are not claiming the developer is lying. We are pointing out that every reassurance offered so far is a statement in an application, not a condition anyone can enforce after the vote.
Is the closed-loop cooling commitment binding, or a brochure?
The application describes closed-loop cooling using roughly 110,000 gallons a year — about 301 gallons a day. If that is true, it belongs in the Planned Development ordinance as an enforceable condition with a penalty, not in a slide deck. Written into the PD, it is a promise. Left out, it is a preference.
What is the one-time fill — and what happens on every refill?
A closed loop still has to be filled, drained for maintenance, and refilled. None of those volumes have been made public. Prosper buys treated water from the North Texas Municipal Water District and restricts residents to once- or twice-weekly watering under its own conservation plan.
Does the number survive an expansion or a new tenant?
A rezoning runs with the land, not with the applicant. If the facility expands, changes cooling technology, or changes hands, which of tonight's assurances travel with it? That question has a paper answer, and it is the PD ordinance.
Where are the three engineering studies?
White Rose Partners commissioned noise, power and water studies and quoted excerpts of them in the application. Town staff pulled the item from the August 18 agenda specifically to obtain and review the full studies. Release them publicly, in full, before the hearing is rescheduled. Residents should not be asked to respond to excerpts.
We planted our families here.
Nobody in this fight is against growth, and nobody here is against technology. We are the people who did exactly what we were told to do. We saved, we bought the biggest thing we will ever buy, we chose a school district, and we put our children in it. We read the land use plan.
A home is not an asset to the family living in it. It is the room where a kid does homework with the window open. Nobody who signed a thirty-year note on a house next to a planned neighborhood signed up for an industrial cooling plant at the fence line — and no one should have to prove they deserve a quiet night.
What the petition asks for
Deny this rezoning. Then make sure it can't happen next to homes again.
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Deny case ZONE-26-0007
Recommend denial of the Planned Development rezoning and of the Future Land Use Plan amendment for the 39.3 acres at FM 1385 and Parvin Road. The plan the Town already adopted is the right answer for this corner.
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Release the studies before any hearing is rescheduled
Publish the applicant's noise, power and water studies in full, with enough notice for residents and independent engineers to read them. Excerpts are not a record.
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Write real siting rules — setbacks, night noise limits, water
Adopt a data center ordinance that defines the use, sets a minimum distance from homes and schools, sets an enforceable nighttime decibel limit measured at the residential property line, and caps water draw. Denton is drafting one. Somervell County passed a resolution. Prosper should not be improvising this one application at a time.
This is not a long shot
Texas towns have said no to these — this year.
A Texas Tribune-reported poll in June 2026 found a majority of Texans oppose data center construction in their own communities. Governor Abbott has called for siting and setback requirements, and in August directed a statewide audit of data center grid requests.
What to do, and when
The item was pulled. That is an opening, not a win.
Project Tomahawk was removed from tonight's Planning & Zoning agenda around August 10 and has not been rescheduled. Under Texas open meetings law the Commission cannot discuss or vote on an item that is not posted — so nobody should be told to show up tonight expecting a data center hearing. What you can do tonight is get on the record first.
Tonight
Tuesday
August 18
- Body
- Planning & Zoning Commission
- Time
- 6:30 p.m. — arrive by 6:00
- Where
- Council Chambers
Prosper Town Hall
250 W. First Street, Prosper, TX 75078 - Data center on the agenda?
- No. Citizen Comments is still open.
How to speak
- Arrive by 6:00 p.m. Parking and the sign-in table both take longer than you think.
- Fill out a Public Comment Request Form and hand it in before the meeting is called to order. Forms are in the Council Chambers.
- You get three minutes under Ordinance 13-63, extendable by two. Use the general Citizen Comments slot.
- Say you are there about Project Tomahawk and ask that the studies be released before the item returns. It goes in the minutes and on the video.
Can't make it? Written comment goes into the record any time. Email townsecretary@prospertx.gov, call 972-569-1073, or use the Town's online form center. To have a comment read into the record, submit it by 4:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting.
When it comes back
Watch these dates
Agendas are posted at least 72 hours ahead. The item goes to Planning & Zoning first for a recommendation, then to Town Council for the actual decision.
- Planning & Zoning — 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.
- Sept 1 · Sept 15
- Town Council — 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 6:15 p.m.
- Aug 25 · Sept 8 · Sept 22
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If you have never done this before
"Good evening. My name is [name], I live at [street], and I'm here about Project Tomahawk at FM 1385 and Parvin Road.
I understand it isn't on tonight's agenda. I'm speaking now because I'd like this on the record before it comes back.
The applicant commissioned noise, power and water studies and quoted parts of them. I'm asking the Commission to require that those studies be released in full, publicly, before this item is rescheduled.
And if this does come back, I'm asking that any commitment about noise or water be written into the Planned Development ordinance as an enforceable condition — not left as a statement in an application. Thank you."
That is about 45 seconds. Add one sentence about your own family and you are at a minute — which is plenty. Specific beats loud.
Straight answers
Questions we keep getting
Does signing this petition legally block the rezoning?
No — and anyone who tells you otherwise is setting you up. This is a public petition. Its power is political: it shows the Commission and the Council how many residents object, and it builds a list that can be mobilized when a hearing is posted.
There is a separate, entirely different instrument under Texas Local Government Code §211.006 — a formal protest petition. That one counts land area owned by property owners inside a defined ring near the site, not people, and if it qualifies it can raise the vote threshold on the Town Council. The two are not interchangeable, and the rules changed with HB 24 in September 2025. If you own property near the site, tell us on the form — that is a question for a Texas land-use attorney, and we are getting one.
Aren't you just against progress?
No. The objection is to the siting, not the technology. A data center next to a substation on land planned for industry is a reasonable project. A data center that requires the Town to amend its Future Land Use Plan in order to sit near homes and an elementary school is a different proposition, and it should be judged as one.
Won't it lower my property value?
Honestly, the research is mixed and we are not going to overstate it. A George Mason University analysis of thousands of Northern Virginia sales could not establish that data center proximity persistently suppresses prices, and an NBER working paper found county-level increases. Most of that work studies facilities that are miles from homes, not at a fence line — so it does not really answer this question.
We would rather win on the arguments that hold: a nighttime noise limit set 25 decibels above the WHO guideline, unenforceable water commitments, and an application that asks the Town to rewrite its own plan.
Didn't the state already pause data centers?
Not this one, and it is important to be precise. On August 3, 2026 the Governor directed the PUC and ERCOT to audit data center projects in the grid interconnection queue. That is a state grid-connection review, not a municipal zoning moratorium. It does not stop the Town of Prosper from voting on a rezoning. It does tell you that the state considers the power and water questions serious enough to pause several hundred projects over.
Will you sell or share my information?
No. Never sold, never shared, never rented. Your name and general area may be presented to the Commission as part of the petition, because that is the point of signing. Your street address and email are not published, and your comment is only ever quoted if you check the box allowing it — and then only as first name and last initial. One-click unsubscribe on every email.
Sources and citations
Every factual claim on this page is sourced below. Where a figure comes from the applicant rather than an independent party, we say so on the page. If you find an error here, email us — we will correct it fast, because being right is the whole strategy.
- Community Impact — Developer seeks to build data center in Prosper and Prosper postpones consideration
- Town of Prosper — Planning & Zoning Commission, Town Council, Form Center
- World Health Organization — Noise fact sheet and Night Noise Guidelines for Europe
- ERCOT — large load interconnection queue; Texas SB 6 (2025) large-load curtailment provisions
- Office of the Governor — Data center audit directive, Aug 3 2026
- Texas Tribune — Poll on Texans and data centers, approval pause
- KERA News — Cedar Creek Lake project pulled, Denton moratorium
- Property values — George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis; NBER working paper (May 2026), as reported
- Texas Local Government Code §211.006; HB 24, 89th Legislature (eff. Sept 1, 2025)
- North Texas Municipal Water District — water system; Prosper Water Conservation Plan