<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3pVJlt_1ED8ymNM00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3pVJlt_1ED8ymNM00" width="1280" height="960" ><figcaption>Road view of Vantage's data center site presented during a community meeting on Friday, June 26, 2026. (Halle Sheppard, Cap City News)</figcaption></figure>CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Laramie County Planning Commission will hear a series of requests for both local data center projects and housing projects, all of which it will need to consider supporting before the requests head to the Laramie County Commission.The Planning Commission meets once a month to discuss public and corporate requests related to land use in Laramie County. Commission members will consider requests and vote to support them before they head to the Laramie County Board of Commissioners or turn them down completely.Today, the commission will meet at 3:30 p.m. at the Historic County Building at 310 19th St. in Cheyenne. The public can attend in person or via Zoom.<h2>Commission to hear zone change request for Vantage’s ‘Project Latigo’</h2>A new data center project could come to Laramie County if the Planning Commission and Board of County Commissioners support Vantage Data Center’s “Project Latigo,” a 480-megawatt data center project with eyes on south Laramie County.According to Vantage representatives at a public meeting in June, the project would employ 75 workers full time during its first phase, though more would be employed through construction.According to information provided by Vantage, the data center would go up around 12 miles south of Cheyenne between Interstate 25 and the South Greeley Highway near the South Cheyenne Solar Project, as shown in the map below:<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1L4JNE_1ED8ymNM00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1L4JNE_1ED8ymNM00" width="1280" height="960" ><figcaption>Location for Vantage’s Wyoming Data Center, presented during a community meeting on Friday, June 26, 2026. (Halle Sheppard, Cap City News)</figcaption></figure>Vantage already owns the land; the company will just need to get it rezoned to allow for data center development.The commission will hear the project’s request to rezone the 1,835-acre property from Land Use, the standard zoning for undeveloped county land, to a Planned Unit Development zone district.The zone change would, according to the application submitted by Palma Land Planning, “establish a framework for the development of a data center campus and supporting infrastructure.”The land slated for development is mixed in with Wyoming state land. The portions of the below map highlighted yellow are the areas owned by Vantage. Some parts of the property will remain undeveloped as a conservation zone.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0OOSoN_1ED8ymNM00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0OOSoN_1ED8ymNM00" width="1116" height="966" ><figcaption>Map of project area for Vantage Data Center’s Project Latigo (Laramie County Planning Commission)</figcaption></figure>Included in the project area would be on-site workforce housing. Roadways affected by construction were identified by Palma as Terry Ranch Road and both the interstate and Greeley Highway.The application said that water and sewer would be handled either by wells for water and on-site treatment for sewer or through connecting to Cheyenne’s system via an outside user agreement, though discharge access is still temporarily limited for data center developments in the city.Another Planning Commission decision regarding data centers — a request for a conditional use permit for an off-site office facility for the Project Tembo, formerly known as Project Jade — will be postponed to a future meeting.<h2>Proposed subdivision and future apartment complex requesting permits</h2>The commission will also hear two requests for proposed housing project developments in Laramie County.Landowner Powder River Capital Investments and developer New Peak Construction are seeking a conditional use permit for a 2.55-acre property they intend to develop to fit 48 apartment units.According to Planning Commission documents, the developer intends on building the apartment complex in two phases, first a 24-unit building and later two 12-unit buildings.The Prosser Road property, located in south Cheyenne near Triumph High School and Rossman Elementary School, currently hosts a single home. According to the developer, that would be demolished during the second phase of construction.Approval of this complex comes with some important access considerations. County engineering staff said that the complex would need to improve the roadside along Prosser and build sidewalks on the nearby Greenwood Place, which is currently a dirt road that the plan said would be used for additional access specifically for emergency vehicles.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0frY6a_1ED8ymNM00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0frY6a_1ED8ymNM00" width="1288" height="960" ><figcaption>A 2.55-acre property developers intend to convert into the 48-unit Powder River Apartment Complex (Laramie County Planning Commission)</figcaption></figure>Laramie County may also get more single-family homes in the coming years if the commission supports a major subdivision and plat request for the 319.48-acre R&amp;R Heights area off of Horse Creek Road to the west of Cheyenne.The plat lays out a neighborhood of 52 homes on lots ranging from 4.5 acres to more than 10 acres in size.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4YGwgO_1ED8ymNM00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4YGwgO_1ED8ymNM00" width="1072" height="904" ><figcaption>Plat for the R&amp;R Heights land off of Horse Creek Road (Laramie County Planning Commission)</figcaption></figure>Five new roads would also be constructed as part of the neighborhood-development process, designed for access and to keep as much traffic off of Horse Creek Road and the nearby Romsa Road as possible.Each home would have to drill its own well to access water. County staff recommended homeowners drill around 580 feet to access the White River Formation and avoid the thinning Ogalala Aquifer higher up.See the County Planning Commission’s agenda below for more information on all of these projects:</div></body>

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Laramie County Planning Commission will hear a series of requests for both local data center projects and housing projects, all of which it will need to consider supporting before the requests head to the Laramie County Commission. The Planning Commission meets once a month to...

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