# Pulaski County Planning & Development — Development Applications Production (2026-06-02) Pulaski County Planning & Development's response to a 2026-05-28 FOIA request (sent to Plan Review Coordinator [[Jim Cranor]]) for **all development applications in unincorporated Pulaski County since January 1, 2024**, any **data-center / hyperscale site-plan approvals**, and the **county's written site-plan-review procedure**. Acknowledged by Cranor 2026-06-01 ("documents by end of the day tomorrow") and delivered as a **Dropbox folder ("Dunlap FOIA / 5/28/26 FOIA responses") on 2026-06-02** ([delivery thread](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19e8a3f50636cb87)). 83 files, ~240 MB. This production is the first county-source answer to the question the [[2026-05 County Judge Executive Order Pauses Data-Center Planning Applications|moratorium/planning-pause]] controversy raised: **how many data centers are actually in the unincorporated-county pipeline, and how are they approved?** Its dispositive findings are a **negative** (only one site has ever applied) and a **provenance** finding (that site had an earlier, smaller data-center applicant before [[AVAIO Digital Partners|AVAIO]]). ## What's inside - **`SITE PLANS SINCE 2024.xlsx`** (544 rows) and **`Watershed_Building Permits since 2024.xlsx`** (61 rows) — the county's full administrative logs (request item 1). See [[Pulaski County Site-Plan Application Log]]. - **`pulaski_county_site_plan_application_4-1-24.pdf`** + **`Site Plan Status letter sample.pdf`** — the application form and a sample status letter (request item 4). See [[Pulaski County Administrative Site-Plan Review Procedure]]. - **`Coushutta Development (145th St) Site Plan/`** (folder) — an **earlier (Feb 2024) data-center site plan at the 145th Street site** by Coushatta Management, LLC. See [[Coushatta Management 145th Street Data Center Site Plan]]. - **`Avaio 145 St Data Center Large Site Plan/`** (folder, ~60 files) — AVAIO's full Project Leo site-plan package, 2024–2026, including the USACE wetland-permit package and the codenamed "Project Little Rock" summary. See [[AVAIO Project Leo Large Site-Plan Package]]. ## Key takeaways 1. **Only one data-center site exists in unincorporated Pulaski County (negative finding).** Of **544 site-plan entries since 2024** and 61 watershed building permits, the *only* data-center / hyperscale rows are the two 145th Street filings — "Coshutta Development Site Plan" (2024-02-27) and "Avaio 145th Street Site Plan" (2024-10-07), both at E 145th Street / ZIP 72206 (`SITE PLANS SINCE 2024.xlsx`, rows for E 145th St). No other "data center," "hyperscale," "server," or comparable large-load site plan or building permit appears. AVAIO Project Leo is the sole data-center project in the county's administrative pipeline. 2. **The 145th Street site had an earlier, smaller data-center applicant.** Before AVAIO, **Coushatta Management, LLC** (engineer [[Harbor Environmental]]) obtained administrative site-plan approval on **2024-02-23** for a single **60,000 SF** building at the same 145th Street location — months before AVAIO's September 2024 hyperscale filing. The relationship between Coushatta Management and AVAIO is **not established in this record**. 3. **Approval is purely administrative — no public process.** Both the Coushatta and AVAIO site plans were approved by Planning & Development *staff* with "PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL MEETING DATE: N/A"; AVAIO's Kimley-Horn comment-response records staff stating "Staff sees no need for a public review or variance request at this time" (`10112024_Comment Response_Pulaski County.pdf`, p. 3). This corroborates [[Pulaski County Zoning and Land-Use Authority]] and the [[Site plan review]] thesis: a hyperscale campus advanced through staff-level review alone. 4. **AVAIO's design shrank from 9 buildings to 5.** A 2025-08-15 Kimley-Horn email records that "the development has changed from 9 buildings to 5 buildings" with a reconfigured layout (`comments 8-19-25.pdf`); the original "Project Little Rock" summary described nine buildings (three 60 MW + six 40 MW) on 296 acres (`Project Little Rock - Site Plan Summary.pdf`). 5. **The developer marked its own site plan exempt — the county produced it anyway.** AVAIO's "Project Little Rock" summary is stamped "CONFIDENTIAL — THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TRADE SECRETS AND COMMERCIAL/FINANCIAL INFORMATION — EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT," yet Pulaski County released it in this production. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Jim Cranor]] — Plan Review Coordinator; signatory of both site-plan-review notices; FOIA respondent. - [[Coushatta Management, LLC]] — earlier 145th Street data-center applicant. - [[Harbor Environmental]] — engineer of record for the Coushatta filing (Andrew Rike, P.E.; Woodrow "Woody" Martin, P.E.). - [[Pete Peterson]] — Coushatta Management contact (`[email protected]`). - [[AVAIO Digital Partners]] — Project Leo developer; [[Kimley-Horn]] (Brianna Covington, P.E.; Kaden Watkins, P.E.) site-civil engineer; [[Stantec]] (Leo Tran) and [[Tom Nesel]] (AVAIO) on the team. - [[Van McClendon]] — Planning & Development Director. - [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] — Nationwide-Permit wetland authority for the AVAIO crossings. ## Concepts invoked - [[Site plan review]] — the administrative process both filings used. - [[Pulaski County Zoning and Land-Use Authority]] — the unincorporated-area zoning vacuum. - [[Reversion to acreage]] — the Vesta Addition lots inside the AVAIO site. - [[Nationwide Permit]] — the USACE wetland-permit track in the AVAIO package. ## Events documented - [[2024-02 Coushatta Management Files an Earlier 145th Street Data-Center Site Plan]] - [[2026-06 Pulaski County Planning and Development Produces Development-Application Records]] ## Cross-references - [[county-pulaski/project-leo-2026-05-22/_overview|Project Leo production (2026-05-22)]] — the earlier Pulaski County production; this production extends it with the full site-plan package, the application log, and the Coushatta predecessor. - [[2026-05 County Judge Executive Order Pauses Data-Center Planning Applications]] — the intake pause this production's site-plan log contextualizes. ## Open questions / follow-ups - **Coushatta ↔ AVAIO relationship.** Is Coushatta Management, LLC a landowner/assembler, an AVAIO predecessor, or unrelated? Not resolvable from this record. Arkansas SoS and deed records are the next channel. **Restraint:** do not assert a relationship absent evidence. - **Image-only documents.** `LIT Vesta Addition Reversion 2025-11-17.pdf` returned no text layer (OCR pending); the large engineering binaries (81 MB wetland delineation, archaeological survey, T&E habitat, `AVAIO_Water_Impacts_20251028.pdf`) are inventoried but not yet text-extracted. - Nested `.zip` email attachments (floor-plan breakdown, 09/30/24, 11/07/24, 05/12/26 sets) preserved in `raw/` but not yet unpacked.