Lytle Council Approves Sewer Agreement for Project Cinco Data Center
Lytle City Council unanimously approved a sanitary sewer service agreement Nov. 9 for Project Cinco, a $900 million hyperscale data-center campus outside the city limits, The Devine News reported.
The Lytle City Council unanimously approved a sanitary sewer service agreement Nov. 9 for Project Cinco, a $900 million hyperscale data-center campus under development near the Coal Mine neighborhood outside the city limits, The Devine News reported in a Nov. 11 account by Anton Riecher.
The official Nov. 9 agenda lists the item as a resolution approving the terms and conditions of an agreement between the City of Lytle and Rowan Cinco LLC “for Sanitary Sewer Service Related to Project Cinco,” authorizing the mayor to execute the documents needed to carry it out. City Administrator Meadows is listed as the staff contact. The regular meeting was set for 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 14916 Main Street.
The city’s Agenda Center had posted no minutes for the meeting when this report was prepared. The account of the unanimous vote, and of what was said in the chamber, comes from The Devine News. Only the open portion of that article was used here.
A sewer pact for a campus outside the city limits
Mayor Ruben Gonzalez told the paper the sewer agreement is a subset of a much larger development agreement between the city and Rowan Cinco LLC that was in place before the project’s groundbreaking in September 2025. He said many of the concerns local residents raised at the meeting are addressed in the revision.
“It is important that we take these into consideration as part of the agreement,” Gonzalez said, according to The Devine News.
Because the project lies outside Lytle’s city limits, the paper reported, the city is being asked to provide sewer service and eventually take responsibility for infrastructure serving the private development. City staff, city attorneys and the Rowan team have been revising the development agreement since an Oct. 26 meeting, the paper said. It also referred to an Oct. 19 public hearing on a pending city decision on annexation and zoning for the 284-acre campus. That hearing should not be read as a final annexation or zoning vote.
The agenda item does not state the $900 million figure, the acreage or the location. Those details come from The Devine News. The sewer contract itself was not posted with the agenda, so its rates, term and cost-sharing terms are not reported here.
The city’s website lists City Hall at 14916 Main Street, Lytle, Texas 78052, phone 830-709-3692.
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