Conditional use permit hearing — Leola Data Center
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · 9:05 A.M.
Courtroom, McPherson County Courthouse, Leola
Leola Data Center has applied for conditional use permit 26-CUP-04 to construct a data processing center in Spring Township. The Zoning Board of Adjustment decides whether to approve or reject it, and the notice states that any interested person may appear and be heard.
- The notice provides one way to be heard: appear at the courtroom in the McPherson County Courthouse in Leola at 9:05 A.M. on August 11.
- Anyone interested in the approval or rejection of the permit may speak — you do not have to be a party to the application.
“NOTICE IS, HEREBY GIVEN: Leola Data Center has applied for a Conditional Use Permit (26-CUP-04) to McPherson County Zoning Board of Adjustment under Article 4.01.03 and Chapter 5.33 to construct a Data Processing Center in that part of the E1/2 of Section 28-T128N-R68W of Spring Township in McPherson County, South Dakota. … At this time and place, any person interested in the approval or rejection of the conditional use permit may appear and be heard.”
What is actually being decided
This is a conditional use permit under Article 4.01.03 and Chapter 5.33, not a rezoning. The board is deciding whether a data processing center may operate on this parcel under the existing zoning.
Where the site is
The notice describes the location only by survey: the E1/2 of Section 28-T128N-R68W in Spring Township. It gives no street address and no acreage.
What the notice does not say
It states nothing about power draw, water use, the operator behind the application, investment, or tenant. Those are unanswered as of the notice, not omitted here.