Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center
The Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million data center proposed by the company ONMINE. It voted at its regular meeting on April 27th, 2026. City staff had recommended approval. The commission's own agenda files the request as Case Z26-07. It is a conditional use permit to allow a data center on about two and a half acres at 6509 South Fort Hood Street. The land is zoned University District. The applicant of record is Belton Engineering, Inc. on behalf of 4 Lazy J Properties, LLC. The commission's vote is a recommendation, and the final decision on the zoning rests with the Killeen City Council. Two outlets report the tally differently, one as 4 to 1 to deny and one as 4 to 0 against with a single abstention.
How to take part
The commission's action is a recommendation only. The zoning decision goes to the Killeen City Council in open session, where a member of the public can speak at the public hearing on the rezoning request.
Where
1 county. In Killeen-Temple.
Timeline
- ordered
Regular Planning and Zoning Commission meeting at which the conditional use permit was heard as public hearing PH-1, per the commission's own agenda
- Today
How this decision moved
One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.
- 2026-08-18
Checked and unchanged. Killeen's council has taken the data center subject up as a future agenda item.
- 2026-08-21
Corrected. The commission's own agenda dates the hearing to April 27th, 2026. It files the request as Case Z26-07, a conditional use permit for a data center at 6509 South Fort Hood Street on land zoned University District. The applicant of record is Belton Engineering, Inc. on behalf of 4 Lazy J Properties, LLC. No Killeen agenda posted through August 27th, 2026 carries the case, so the council decision the commission's vote feeds into has not been scheduled.
- 2026-08-26
Checked and unchanged. The commission's vote against the conditional use permit still stands and the agenda item is still the one quoted here. Nothing has been refiled.
- 2026-08-26
Checked and unchanged. The Texas Scorecard account still reports the commission voting against the permit with an abstention. It still says the City Council makes the final decision, using that vote as a recommendation.
- 2026-08-29
Checked and unchanged. The commission's denial still stands as a recommendation rather than as the decision, and the final zoning call still belongs to the Killeen City Council. Nothing on the record shows the council has taken it up.
- 2026-09-02
The commission's denial of the conditional use permit stands and the city has recorded no further action on it.
- 2026-09-05
The Killeen commission's refusal of the conditional use permit still stands and the agenda that carried it is unchanged. Nothing new has been filed for the site.
- 2026-09-08
Killeen's commission still stands on its refusal of the conditional use permit for the ONMINE data center. The agenda that carried the item is still posted and no rehearing appears on a later one.
- 2026-09-09
Killeen's planning commission has not revisited the conditional use permit it voted down, and the agenda that carried it reads as it did.
- 2026-09-12
Killeen's planning commission has not taken the ONMINE conditional use permit back up. The agenda that carried the vote against it reads as it did.
- 2026-09-13
The commission's denial of the conditional use permit still stands, and the zoning question has not come back to the city council.
- 2026-09-16
The commission's refusal of the conditional use permit still stands, and the agenda that carried it still reads as it did. Nothing has been refiled for the same site.
- 2026-09-19
The commission's refusal stands and the permit has not come back to it in another form.
- 2026-09-24
Reporting of the commission's vote against the permit still reads as the record took it. No new application for the site has surfaced.
- 2026-09-27
The commission's vote against the permit still stands in the city's own agenda record. No new application for the site has appeared.
- 2026-09-30
The city's posted agenda still carries the permit request the planning commission voted against, and no council decision appears after it.
The evidence
Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.
The commission voted 4-1 to deny the permit for ONMINE's proposed $30 million facility, despite a staff recommendation for approval.Killeen planning commission denies permit for proposed data center, KWTX Journalism · kwtx.com
At a meeting of the Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission in late April, commissioners voted 4-0 against a $30 million data center project set to be built on the outskirts of the city.Killeen Planning & Zoning Votes Data Center Down, Texas Scorecard Journalism · texasscorecard.com
The project was planned to occupy two and a half acres on South Fort Hood Street and was to be built by the company ONMINE.Killeen Planning & Zoning Votes Data Center Down, Texas Scorecard Journalism · texasscorecard.com
The final decision on the data center zoning will be made by the Killeen City Council, using the commission's vote as a recommendation.Killeen Planning & Zoning Votes Data Center Down, Texas Scorecard Journalism · texasscorecard.com
AGENDA REGULAR MEETING PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION APRIL 27, 2026City of Killeen, Planning and Zoning Commission regular meeting agenda, April 27th, 2026 Primary source, official · killeentexas.gov
PH-1 Hold a public hearing and consider a request submitted by Belton Engineering, Inc. on behalf of 4 Lazy J Properties, LLC (Case# Z26-07) for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow a data center on property zoned “UD” (University District), being approximately 2.615 acres out of the M. T. Martin Survey, Abstract No. 963. The subject property is locally addressed as 6509 South Fort Hood Street, Killeen, Texas.City of Killeen, Planning and Zoning Commission regular meeting agenda, April 27th, 2026, public hearing PH-1 Primary source, official · killeentexas.gov
Questions about this decision
Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.
What is this decision?
The Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million data center proposed by the company ONMINE. It voted at its regular meeting on April 27th, 2026. City staff had recommended approval. The commission's own agenda files the request as Case Z26-07. It is a conditional use permit to allow a data center on about two and a half acres at 6509 South Fort Hood Street. The land is zoned University District. The applicant of record is Belton Engineering, Inc. on behalf of 4 Lazy J Properties, LLC. The commission's vote is a recommendation, and the final decision on the zoning rests with the Killeen City Council. Two outlets report the tally differently, one as 4 to 1 to deny and one as 4 to 0 against with a single abstention.
Who decides it?
City of Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Can the public take part?
The commission's action is a recommendation only. The zoning decision goes to the Killeen City Council in open session, where a member of the public can speak at the public hearing on the rezoning request.
Where in Texas does it apply?
It covers Bell County in the Killeen-Temple, TX area.
Has it been decided?
Its status on the record is open.
What happens next?
No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was ordered on April 27th.
When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is April 27th, 2026.
What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
What sources back it?
Three sources back it. One of them is primary.
Is it on the ERCOT grid?
Yes. It sits inside the ERCOT interconnection.
When was it last checked?
Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 30th, 2026.
Cite this
Texas AI Docket, Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center. Tracked since April 27th, 2026. Last verified September 30th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0032/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0032.
Beat
Filed under Data centers, with every other decision on that beat.