# Lauren Hoffman Lauren Hoffman is a Planning Department staff member at the [[City of Conway]] visible in the Project Stratus production primarily through the internal Microsoft Teams chats of the Planning Department channel. Hoffman is the **author of a draft City of Conway data-center notice ordinance** that was in active drafting as of April 21, 2025 — distinct from the existing 2023 Data Center Noise Ordinance (O-23-55) — and the case owner on several non-Stratus rezone matters from the same April 21 Planning Commission docket. ## Role and affiliations - Planning Department, City of Conway. ## Appearances in the corpus - **April 2, 2025 10:08 AM** — Teams chat exchange with [[Ryan Robeson]] on whether the Stratus annexation could include the I-3 zoning ([[Conway Internal Staff Teams Chats on Project Stratus|Teams Screenshot 1_RR]]). Hoffman: "I would, because what I saw (pre-application submission) was a request for I-3, where it is allowed by right. They can't zone up at PC so that would be a mess." - **April 9, 2025 10:26 AM** — Posted the April PC items list in the Planning Department Teams channel with case-owner assignments ([[Conway Internal Staff Teams Chats on Project Stratus|Teams Chat_Planning Group_9April2025]]). Hoffman owned: SUB-0425-0053, VAR-0225-0024, REZ-0325-0037, REZ-0325-0038, REZ-0325-0041. - **April 21, 2025 10:33 AM** — Teams chat hours before the PC meeting documenting a draft Conway data-center notice ordinance ([[Conway Internal Staff Teams Chats on Project Stratus|Teams Chat_2025 04 21.pdf]]). Hoffman reproduced a partial draft requiring property owners to "notify all residents within a half-mile radius of the parcel, including any affiliated homeowners' association operating within the half-mile radius, that the property owner and operator intends to build and operate a Data Center on the property." She added: "**The Data Center ordinance probably will get drug up tonight if they are reading the ZC** [zoning code]. I know this is all after the fact, but as Lori stated, they will be 45 steps ahead tonight." ## Notes The "45 steps ahead" remark is Hoffman commenting on the strategic advantage of opponents who had read the draft data-center ordinance before showing up to the PC meeting. The "Lori" reference is [[Conway Planning Commission]] Chair Lori Quinn. Hoffman appears to have been anticipating that the data-center ordinance work would be visible to opponents at the April 21 meeting and that the rezone advocates would be procedurally behind. The draft data-center notice ordinance Hoffman was working on would have required substantially broader public notification (half-mile radius) than the standard rezone-case 200-foot mailing — a regulatory tool that, if adopted earlier, would have given more residents an opportunity to organize before the Project Stratus rezone hearing. As of the FOIA-2026-126 production, the draft ordinance does not appear in final-adopted form. Whether the ordinance was subsequently adopted or shelved is an open question for a follow-on FOIA. Hoffman's case-management responsibilities (SUB-0425-0053, several variance cases, three non-Stratus rezones) suggest she is a mid-to-senior Planning Department staff member — case owner on routine items but not on the Project Stratus items, which were assigned to [[Ryan Robeson]]. Her authorship of the draft data-center ordinance indicates she also has policy-drafting responsibilities, not just case-management.