# 2024-09 AVAIO Files Its Project Leo Site Plan with Pulaski County On 2024-09-30, [[AVAIO Digital Partners]] — through its engineer, [[Kimley-Horn]] — filed the first site plan submittal for the "Project Leo" data center with the [[Pulaski County Government]] Planning & Development Department, opening the county's review of what would become the largest of the five Arkansas data-center sites under investigation. ## Sources - [[AVAIO Project Leo Site Plan and County Review]] — `Pulaski County Site Plan Application.pdf` (dated 2024-09-30) and `20240930 - SITE PLAN.pdf`. - [[Pulaski County Planning Correspondence on Project Leo]] — `email 101025.pdf`, the master "145th Street Development" thread. ## What happened Kimley-Horn engineer Matt Cox transmitted the site plan to Planning & Development Director [[Van McClendon]] on 2024-09-30: *"Please find attached a site plan submittal to begin your review of the project."* The submittal covered a 296.354-acre tract at approximately 2500 145th Street for a "DATACENTER" use, with AVAIO Digital Partners of Stamford, Connecticut as developer of record. Cox stated AVAIO's understanding that *"there is no zoning, and therefore, no land use restrictions on the property,"* that the project *"will not be subject to a public hearing,"* and that the package contained the "minimum items" for review, with the full plan to follow "as the project moves forward from the master planning phase." County contact had begun three days earlier, on 2024-09-27. ## Significance The filing began the only county land-use review Project Leo would face — an administrative [[Site plan review]], not a rezoning. From the first email, both the developer and the county treated the un-zoned site as carrying "no land use restrictions," setting the terms for everything that followed.