Zero in Twenty-Five Years: Why I Haven't Promoted Chapter 60 Ag Development Districts
About once a month somebody forwards me the same idea. Have you looked at Chapter 60? The Ag Development Districts? Couldn’t the neighbors just form one of those and keep the data center out? I have. I’ve read the whole chapter more than once, section by section. And I’ll save you the suspense: a Chapter 60 Agricultural Development District can’t stop an industrial project, can’t stop a land sale, and can’t regulate what your neighbor does with his own dirt. It was never built to. Promoting it as some kind of shield would mean handing people a tool that doesn’t do the job, and one that carries a risk most folks never see coming. ...