Subject: Respectfully Requesting a Pause on the Silver Fox Data Center Proposal Until SB 484 Takes Full Effect – Honoring Your Oath to Protect Both Our Economy and Our People Dear Honorable Council Members, As residents who have entrusted you with the solemn responsibility of governing Indiantown, we write today not to oppose growth, but […]
Create a new overlay district for Hyper Scale Centers. Your code does not cover them now in a way that keeps us safe. So……. 1. SB 180 (2025) Does Not Block This SB 180 (the hurricane-recovery bill) restricted local governments from adopting new moratoriums or more restrictive comprehensive-plan amendments / land-development regulations in a broad […]
This meeting was 17 February 2026 You do the math !
Who are the people telling you that the data center is going to be just dandy? Ask them where they live. Is it Our Town? Indiantown ! This is a personal message to Ms. Tami and others. We are happy to here the other side. Just know, that we know, what you don’t want to […]
In the Indiantown Community Facebook group, Tami Karol posted this just days ago after the Martin County Joint Meeting: “The tax revenue that a data center brings to an area is millions of dollars… everyone is saying it won’t bring jobs but it will bring 100+ jobs and at least 50 of those jobs will […]
Good evening, residents of Indiantown, Martin County, and everyone who calls this area home. Tonight I want to paint one clear, complete picture for you — a picture that begins with a privately funded trip to Virginia and ends with the real costs that will land on your electric bill, your drinking water, your quiet […]
Florida’s ethics statutes (especially FS 112.3143 and 112.313) and the Sunshine Law were written to prevent exactly this configuration. The appearance — and reality — of improper influence is not subtle; it is contractual, financial, and institutional. Residents of Indiantown and Martin County have every statutory right to demand the records, file ethics complaints with […]
The April 2026 Cambridge preprint (arXiv:2603.20897) analyzed each data center individually in isolation. It looked at >6,000 separate facilities worldwide and measured the temperature rise around each one independently. The authors explicitly state they focused on “the locations of the main AI hyperscalers” and computed temperature trends “within circular regions centered on each AI hyperscaler.” […]
The all-expenses-paid Loudoun County, Virginia, data-center study trip — funded by an IEC member and involving Danielle Williamson (IEC Chair + voting PZAB member), Kevin & David Powers (IEC participants and Indiantown Realty principals), and Martin County Commissioner Stacy Hetherington — now carries an even sharper edge because Commissioner Hetherington receives direct remuneration from Nelson […]
ABSOLUTELY – HERE IS HOW Yes, the Village of Indiantown could legally draft and adopt a temporary moratorium ordinance specifically targeting new data center applications (or a defined class of heavy-industrial/data-center uses) to allow time for further study. Florida municipalities have broad home-rule authority under Article VIII of the Florida Constitution and Chapter 166, Florida […]
