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UID:meeting-548@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T173000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Joint Town Council and Planning Board Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's Town Council and Planning Board will hold a joint work session where planning staff present research on data centers as a land use\, covering types of facilities\, energy and water consumption\, noise\, traffic\, and economic and environmental impacts. Staff will also compare how other municipalities regulate data centers. This is a briefing\, not tied to a specific site or application\, and there is no public comment period.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-5ca77687cb8c498ca158cc5743cb6213.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/548
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/joint-town-council-and-planning-board-work-session
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T153000
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SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Town Council Work Session - January 2026
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex Town Council continues its review of data centers at this work session\, following up on a January 22 discussion with more detail on public health and safety impacts and how the town's approach compares to other municipalities. Fire Chief Tim Herman will also brief the council on accreditation progress\, the 2026 fire academy\, and capital improvement plans for five fire stations\, including the new Hunter Street Public Safety Campus.\n\nPolice Chief Ryan Johansen will update the council on staffing\, vehicle\, and space challenges\, plus a review of the department's Automated License Plate Reader program. The council closes by discussing the budget for the 2025 municipal election.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-61e7ed9bc5974d089cfe0ab34d8a5362.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/546
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/town-council-work-session-january-2026
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-540@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nTwo items outside the routine flow of business stand out. The council will consider a one-year moratorium on data center construction in Apex\, proposed by Mayor Pro Tem Terry Mahaffey\, alongside a related proposal from Mayor Gilbert to form a committee to research impacts and make policy and transparency recommendations. The council also holds public hearings on the town's electric fee schedule (tied to detached-garage service)\, two small annexations (Jenks Road\, Green Level Church Road)\, and the opening of the FY2026-27 operating budget hearing.\n\nThe 16-item consent agenda includes a rezoning denial for Apex Baptist Church\, two annexations tied to rezoning cases\, several water/sewer and electric utility contracts\, an ordinance updating stop-and-yield traffic signage\, and UDO amendment paperwork. Three proclamations are on the agenda (Ask Apex Day\, Regional Creek Week\, Women's History Month)\, along with three board appointments (Board of Adjustment\, Environmental Advisory Board\, Planning Board) and a closed session for attorney-client consultation.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-46148cc140974cbe9efcbdb612542284.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/540
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-82
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3103@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T120000
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SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board - 1
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's Environmental Advisory Board met on 19 March 2026\, with data centers the main item. The town publishes no agenda or minutes for this board\, so this is written from the meeting's captions.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4fhQf9SkG0\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3103
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4fhQf9SkG0
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-538@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's town council took seven public hearings on 24 March 2026\, most of them the same cases its planning board had reviewed two weeks earlier. Welch Homestead comes with both an annexation and a rezoning for up to 270 homes on about 83 acres north of Old US 1. Camp Branch Lane is a smaller rezoning off Holland Road\, and a third annexation covers two small parcels at 631 Wimberly Road.\n\nThree of the hearings deal with the Tingen Road railway crossing\, which closes when the Peakway Southwest connector bridge opens: the feasibility study for a pedestrian and cycle tunnel to replace it\, and two transportation plan amendments. The council also appointed the organizing board of directors for the Peak City Land Trust. Four closed sessions\, all on personnel\, were scheduled at the end.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-93c5cc793e77412f943cb32658159740.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/538
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-83
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-537@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nTwo public hearings stand out on an otherwise routine Apex council agenda: a proposed 12-month moratorium on accepting or approving new development applications for data centers\, cryptocurrency mining\, and related data-processing uses\, and the annual public hearing on the town's fiscal year 2026-27 operating budget. A third hearing covers a 2-acre annexation on Twin Creek Road\; a separate 5-acre annexation on the same road is moving through on the consent agenda as a distinct case.\n\nThe rest of the meeting is routine business: 17 consent items covering service agreements (solid waste consortium\, event vendors\, a wastewater flow-data contract)\, five annexations including a 120-acre tract tied to the large Veridea development\, a tax report\, and board appointments to the culture and arts\, transportation\, and parks and recreation advisory boards. A council member is sponsoring a resolution to create a task force on community resilience and wellbeing. Two items — a memorandum of understanding with NC Children's Hospital and an automated license plate reader program update — were pulled from the agenda before the meeting and did not come up for consideration.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-a15ff460a2124bfc982fccec92075906.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/537
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-84
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2937@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Town Hall Council Chamber\, 73 Hunter Street\, Apex
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Apex Planning Board recommended three development ordinance amendments on 11 May 2026 and\, for a second time\, recommended against expanding the duties of the town's Environmental Advisory Board. It also backed a change to the thoroughfare map tied to a development at 2320 Ten Ten Road.\n\nApex publishes no agenda document for this meeting. This account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2937
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/182/Planning-Board
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3876@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Town Hall Council Chamber\, 73 Hunter Street\, Apex
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Apex Planning Board takes up a rezoning that would amend the Horton Park planned unit development\, raising its unit cap from 250 to 335 homes on the way to a total range of 450 to 850. At stake is whether the board recommends the 16.96-acre PUD-conditional zoning change\, filed by PRMS Investment LLC for parcels at 8252 Smith Road and 0 Jessie Drive\, to the town council.\n\nStaff lay out two phasing options for the project's off-site road work\, including extending Gladsong Road to Smith Road and adding a signal at Jessie Drive and Ten Ten Road. The board also considers approval of its May 11 meeting minutes.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3876
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/182/Planning-Board
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2934@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's environmental advisory board reviews two rezoning cases on its August 20 agenda: the Prince Farms planned unit development\, case 26CZ09\, and Veridea Expansion V\, case 26CZ10. The board advises the town council on environmental policy and reviews rezonings for their environmental effects\, so what it says here reaches the council before the council votes.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is the board's own housekeeping and one discussion item. Four sets of draft minutes are up for approval: two regular meetings\, three months of data center subcommittee minutes and two months of tree canopy subcommittee minutes. Under old business\, the vice-chair brings suggested zoning conditions\, and the agenda notes that a motion to recess into a work session has to happen on the livestream.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UYU7i3aXq8\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2934
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UYU7i3aXq8
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2933@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T120000
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SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Advisory Board\n\nApex's environmental advisory board has a data center subcommittee\, and on 2 September it heard from two outside experts rather than taking any action. David Payne of the NC Department of Environmental Quality was down to cover regulatory processes\, permitting and where the agency currently stands. Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam was to cover cooling methods\, their efficiencies and their environmental impacts.\n\nThe subcommittee exists to gather information on data centers and to work up amendments to the town's Unified Development Ordinance. Nothing was scheduled for a vote. Cooling is the substance of the water question that has followed data center proposals across this region\, so a presentation on it is the groundwork for whatever ordinance language the board eventually recommends.\n\nAgenda: https://www.apexnc.org/DocumentCenter/View/56115/090226-Data-Center-Agenda\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2933
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/1348/Environmental-Advisory-Board-EAB
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2932@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Advisory Board\n\nA three-member subcommittee of Apex's Environmental Advisory Board\, set up to gather information about data centers and work toward development ordinance amendments covering them. This meeting is given to two academic presentations on environmental impact: one on pollution across several pathways and the water a data center requires\, and one on energy systems\, grid impacts and sustainability. No decisions are on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.apexnc.org/DocumentCenter/View/56114/090826-Data-Center-Agenda\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2932
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/1348/Environmental-Advisory-Board-EAB
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3858@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232514Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Advisory Board\n\nThe Environmental Advisory Board will hear a presentation from Stormwater Specialist II Racheal Gamble on the town's public involvement duties under its federal stormwater permit. She will ask board members to help find new sites for storm drain marking\, stream cleanups and invasive species removal.\n\nThe board will also receive draft minutes from its Tree Canopy and Data Center subcommittees\, covering meetings from late August and early September. Members will vote on which subcommittees they serve on. Minutes from the board's own August 20 meeting won't be ready until the October 15 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.apexnc.org/DocumentCenter/View/56266/091726-EAB-Agenda-Packet\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3858
URL:https://www.apexnc.org/1348/Environmental-Advisory-Board-EAB
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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