Phase II rezoning deferred
Company: Hut 8
The claim, verbatim
The West Feliciana Planning and Zoning Commission deferred action on Hut 8's Phase II rezoning request and site plan until its next meeting on the first Monday of November.
Source (primary)
‘It’s going to be future-resilient.’ Get a look at the St. Francisville Hut 8 data center. - The Advocate (-, news_article)
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Quote: “The commission deferred action on both, because commissioners want the parish attorney present to answer questions from members and the public. The next meeting will be the first Monday of November.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 7, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.
The article reports the deferral and separately gives the date of the next meeting. It does not explicitly say the Phase II items were rescheduled for that meeting.
Confirmed in the source:
- The West Feliciana Planning and Zoning Commission deferred action on both the Phase II rezoning request and the site plan for Hut 8's River Bend project
- The commission's next meeting will be the first Monday of November
We could not confirm this from the cited source:
- That action on the Phase II rezoning request and site plan was specifically deferred until the commission's November meeting
That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/west_feliciana/st-francisville-data-center-construction-river-bend-hut8/article_4e6499a4-39b5-4137-9a32-b1bfd37a4dc4.html) in full (14,728 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms ‘It’s going to be future-resilient.’ Get a look at the St. Francisville Hut 8 data center. - The Advocate
Quote: “The commission deferred action on both, because commissioners want the parish attorney present to answer questions from members and the public. The next meeting will be the first Monday of November.”