Hi all!
Thank you for coming out in droves to the Planning Commission Meeting! ICYMI: they voted 6:1 to deny the data center proposal. Yes, a win! 🎉
However, the Planning Commission is an advisory board and the City Council has the authority to overturn their vote, and as such we are not resting on our laurels.
Next up!:
Join us on Saturday, May 30 for an all-hands Boulder City Community Day!
☀️ 6:00am: Eldorado Valley Dry Lake Bed cleanup
Meet here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/QX69sVadYntwxYFq6?g_st=ic ...look for the dumpster at the side of the road. Boulder Disposal has donated it for our volunteer cleanup day--thank you!
Bring family, neighbors, water, sunscreen, gloves, trash grabbers, contractor bags, 5-gallon buckets, and let's clean up our beautiful desert. Many hands make light work!
🍕 10:30am: Pizza luncheon at Vinny’s - 1312 Boulder City Pkwy, BC NV
Yes, it may be early for pizza, but no, we're not ashamed of indulging after a busy morning! 😊
Please RSVP to ajschultheis@yahoo.com so we know how much food to order!
Come meet Adam Schultheis, the No Data Center candidate running for City Council this November.
We will also have our citizen initiative petition for folks to sign--we need 1,700 signatures of registered Boulder City voters to get a question onto our November ballots requiring voter approval to place a data center anywhere on Boulder City land. You can read the text of that proposed ballot question (and two others) we are circulating in advance if you wish, here. 🖇️ Email BCVotersVoice@gmail.com if you have any questions about them.
OK let's go! See you on the sand.
But Wait, There's More!
Remember, this proposal will go back to the City Council next.
Send an email to Townsite Solar 2 to say “no thanks”--the three representatives present at the May 20 Planning Commission meeting were Gerard Balboa, Rick Lammers, and Linda Bullen:
gbalboa@skylarcap.com , rlammers@skylarcap.com , linda@bullenlaw.com
You can find sample messaging and contact info for Townsite Solar 2 linked 🖇️ here
Borrow whatever text resonates with you to get you started if you wish, but personalize it to say it in your own words—personal messages have a greater impact.
Last but definitely not least, THANK YOU, 2026 candidates for public office & endorsers of this petition:
• Gabriel Cornejo — nvgabe.com
• Joy Hoover — joyfornv.com
• Nicole Cannizzaro — nicolecannizzaro.com
• Zach Conine — zachconine.com
I hope everyone will check them out and vote accordingly. All of them have taken the time to personally come out to Boulder City, and all have spoken out in their opposition to data centers. Thank you again. 💞
If you’d like to endorse this petition, I’d be more than happy to feature you here as well. I know many of you have shown up—shout out to Christian Solomon and Alexis Hill also.
Well, that's everything, unless you want to stick around for my notes from the road.
Branden and I escaped for a very-much-needed hot minute last weekend to road trip over to Glen Canyon Dam, and Monument Valley.
While seated barside at a riverside restaurant nearby the Mexican Hat monument, scouring a menu for any vegetarian items (veggie burger ~ outta mushrooms ~ but they did grill up some jalapeño peppers and slathered the plate in pinto beans... glorious, especially given our middle-o-nowhere situation) one of the owners approached us and asked “how do you guys feel about data centers?” I was taken aback because I had not even been discussing the topic with Branden prior to be overheard by anyone… this was a question from a total stranger and totally out of the blue.
This truly IS on everyone’s mind nationwide.
Me (still reeling & laughing internally): "How much time do you have?"
He was a captive audience but his fiancée was not in the slightest; they were short-staffed with a full house and a 15-top requesting separate checks. (We were sitting at the bar so privy to all the complaints about various tables’ requests. We made sure not to ask for anything extra, save for forks.)
Apparently in San Juan County Utah and nearby the Mexican Hat monument, a company is seeking to build a 40,000-acre data center. (The Boulder City proposal, by comparison, sits on an 88-acre parcel.) We relayed many of our concerns with the proposal here in our town, and that young gentleman told us he had a chat group with several locals discussing the pros/cons of allowing such a project on their land, but it sounded like they didn’t know where to go from there to stand up to their local government who was also proceeding with unleashing a fairly unwanted data center on their land at the speed of light.
And then the restaurant received a hoard of incoming customers and they quickly became beyond overwhelmed so the convo ended there, before we could suggest some next steps to rally around a common goal and what’s worked here.
Goodness, I love that area of the country—which is why I just dragged Branden on a 1,600-mile road trip to witness it firsthand; I’ve been road-tripping out there since I was a wee young thing. How heartbreaking to see them preyed upon like everywhere else and that gorgeous & largely untouched landscape be threatened by massively detrimental industrial change in the very near future.
We arrived back home earlier this week, and I figure since the restaurant has a website (go! Our dinner was excellent: https://mexicanhatlodge.com/ ) I’ll write them with some notes on unleashing a shitstorm of a grassroots protest against their elected representatives, should they choose to do so, and I really hope they will. 💕
Okay, onwards and upwards!
-Brynn