Boone County paused new data centers in unincorporated areas and the town of Advance for a year while it writes zoning rules. The structural detail is the carve-out: Meta's $10 billion data center is untouched, because the LEAP Innovation District land was annexed into the City of Lebanon before construction — putting it inside city limits and outside the county's reach. This is the mirror image of yesterday's Mason, Michigan item. In Mason, a city is annexing farmland TO enable a data center over a township's objection. In Boone County, an annexation that already happened is what EXEMPTS a data center from a county moratorium. Same mechanism — municipal annexation moves land out of county control — used in opposite directions.
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Why it matters
Two moratorium items in two days both turn on municipal annexation — which means annexation status is now a first-class field Cliff has to track per parcel, not a footnote. The rule is simple and powerful: county-level bans almost always stop at incorporated city limits, so whether a parcel is inside a city, in a township, or in unincorporated county land often determines whether a project lives or dies, independent of the project's merits. This is dense, parcel-specific, public-record regulatory structure — exactly where an LLM-ingested graph beats both spreadsheets and $800/hr land-use counsel, who track it deal-by-deal but never across a whole queue.
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