FORT WORTH, Texas — For months, residents and business owners near the historic Weston Gardens in south Fort Worth have sat with a nagging, unanswered question about a proposed industrial development taking shape on their doorstep.
“It’s more of, what is it going to do to our area? What is it going to do to nature out here?” said Kaitlynn Waldinger, an employee at Weston Gardens who would also become a neighbor to the proposed facility.
The source of that unease is Black Mountain Power, a developer seeking Fort Worth City Council approval to rezone 80 additional acres from agricultural to light industrial use. The rezoning would expand a proposed 450-acre data center campus that would effectively surround the demonstration gardens — a landmark whose roots date to the 1930s…