# Ryan Robeson Ryan Robeson is a Planning Department staff member at the [[City of Conway]] who served as the **case owner for the three Project Stratus land-use cases** — ANN-0325-0046 (39.50-acre annexation), ANN-0325-0047 (296.21-acre annexation; recorded as O-25-37), and REZ-0425-0052 (rezone A-1 → I-3; recorded as O-25-39). His case ownership is documented in the Planning Department's April 9, 2025 Teams channel post listing all PC items and assignments. ## Role and affiliations - Planning Department, City of Conway. ## Appearances in the corpus - **April 2, 2025 10:12 AM** — Teams chat exchange with [[Lauren Hoffman]] about the Project Stratus annexation pre-application submission ([[Conway Internal Staff Teams Chats on Project Stratus|Teams Screenshot 1_RR]]). Robeson: "They should, but I can add something." Then, at 10:14 AM: "**We technically don't know what the annexation is for though so I don't want to overstep**." This is the corpus's clearest evidence that City staff did not know on April 2 — the day after the MOU was approved — what the prospective annexation was for. The project's identity was contained at the Chamber/CDC level. - **April 9, 2025** — owns all three Project Stratus cases on the Planning Department PC items list ([[Conway Internal Staff Teams Chats on Project Stratus|Teams Chat_Planning Group_9April2025]]): ANN-0325-0046, ANN-0325-0047, REZ-0425-0052. Robeson also owned VAR-0225-0030, PUD-0325-0032, VAR-0325-0043, VAR-0325-0044 on the same April PC docket. ## Notes The "we technically don't know what the annexation is for" comment of April 2 is a load-bearing fact in the corpus: it places City Planning staff outside the loop on Project Stratus as of one day after the MOU was approved by Council. The Chamber/CDC/Mayor's-Office channel controlled project identity through the pre-application period; City Planning staff worked the annexation/rezone cases on the procedural merits without knowing the underlying data-center project. Robeson's case ownership of the Stratus items (rather than Lauren Hoffman or Anne Tucker) is consistent with a "rotate case ownership" practice in the Planning Department; the assignments visible on the April 9 Teams list distribute cases across at least three staff members. The "RR" initials on Teams Screenshot 1, 2, and 3 indicate Robeson's user account on Microsoft Teams. The "PD" initials on Teams Screenshot 4 and 5 are the Planning Department group icon, not an individual.