Replication materials: by-right zoning, early vesting and the reach of local reform in Henrico County, Virginia, 2009 to 2026

Version 1.1, September 26, 2026. Tommy N. Turner (ORCID 0009-0005-7422-9881), independent researcher, Williamsburg, Virginia. [e-mail]. License CC BY 4.0. This deposit holds the records, tables, figure data and working notes behind a single-case documentary study of Henrico County's June 10, 2025 ordinance ending by-right approval of data centers, what that reform reached, and who got a hearing. The study is under journal review; the deposit is cited from its data-availability statement. What changed in version 1.1 Version 1.1 adds the county records that fix the reform's reach: the four vested-rights determination letters the Director of Planning issued between August 28 and December 10, 2025 (reproduced as Exhibits Q, S, V and V-1 in the appellant's binder in APP-2026-100056, whose image-only pages 125 to 283 are now supplied as OCR text with page markers), the Board of Zoning Appeals agendas for September 2025 to September 2026 (the appeal check), the Director's monthly plan-of-development agendas from December 2024 to August 2026, the county's public case portal records transcribed on September 26, 2026, Henrico County Code Chapter 24 as published July 28, 2026, the advertised amendment text, the Court of Appeals of Virginia opinion in the Prince William Digital Gateway appeal (March 31, 2026), and the statute texts drawn in Figure 1. The supplement is rewritten (v0.8, nine sections); the tables now include Table 5; the window diagram is Figure 1 and the tract map Figure 2. Version 1.0 remains available and unaltered. Contents Supplement.pdf / Supplement.docx. Supplementary material, nine sections: S1 documentary base and retrieval; S2 American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates with 90 percent margins of error for tracts 2015.04, 2014.04, 2001.46 and 2015.02 and Henrico County (tables B19013, B03002, B17001); S3 geocoding of the sites; S4 plan-of-development approvals in the record; S5 coding protocol and per-row evidence for the nine-jurisdiction table, with the five exclusions and what was checked for each; S6 engine-group emission limits transcribed from DEQ registration 51232; S7 figure sources and design; S8 reporting discrepancies and primary-record checks; S9 the four vested-rights determinations and the appeal check. tables/. The five manuscript tables as CSV: Table1 (terms), Table2 (chronology 2009 to 2026), Table3 (three tracts and the county, with margins), Table4 (reform timing and approval status in nine Virginia jurisdictions), Table5 (what the reform reached, by decision). Each file carries its caption in row 1 and its note at the end. figures/. Figure1_Window_v1_1.png with build_figure1_window_v1_1.py (matplotlib), the window diagram; Figure2_TractMap_v2_1.png with build_figure1_v2_1.py and the TIGERweb generalized boundary extracts it draws (tigerweb_tracts_2026-09-15.json, tigerweb_counties_2026-09-15.json; README_data.md gives the layer and query). county_and_state_records/. Public records retrieved from henrico.gov, deq.virginia.gov, and lis.virginia.gov, each reproduced as published by the issuing body: Henrico Board of Zoning Appeals agenda and minutes of February 26, 2026 (the minutes incorporate the court reporter's transcript of the hearing in APP-2026-100056); the appellant's exhibit binder in that appeal (Exhibits A to V-1) and the OCR text of its image-only pages 125 to 283, which carry the four determination letters, the adopted ordinance, the RIC5 proffers and the deed of the eastern parcels; the Planning Commission staff report for PUP-2025-101460 (September 11, 2025); Henrico County Code Chapter 24 as of July 28, 2026; the advertised amendment text of 2025; Virginia DEQ air permit registrations 51232, 53259 and 53266; the chapter text of 2025 Va. Acts ch. 594; the Court of Appeals of Virginia opinion in Board of County Supervisors of Prince William County v. Oak Valley Homeowners Association (March 31, 2026); pod_agendas/, the Director's monthly plan-of-development agendas from December 2024 to August 2026 (the files for June 2025, September 2025, and May to August 2026 are outline agendas without dispositions); and bza_agendas/, the Board of Zoning Appeals agendas from September 2025 to September 2026. legal/. The statute texts read for Figure 1 and Section 2, saved with retrieval headers: Va. Code sections 15.2-2261, 15.2-2286(A)(4), 15.2-2307, 15.2-2311 and 15.2-2314; N.C. Gen. Stat. section 160D-108.1; Wash. Rev. Code section 19.27.095; Tex. Loc. Gov't Code chapter 245; Colo. Rev. Stat. section 24-68-103 (Justia mirror of the 2025 code). README_legal_web_2026-09-26.md lists the sources. portal/. BUILD_HENRICO_PORTAL_RECORD_2026-09-26.md: field values transcribed from the county's public case portal (Build Henrico) for the QTS, Meta, Iron Mountain, Airport West and DC Blox cases and the provisional use permit searches, with record identifiers. notes/. Retrieval notes for the legal sources and geocodes (September 16, 2026) and for the portal, binder OCR, agendas and statute texts (September 26, 2026), the check of the five jurisdictions excluded from Table 4, and the Spotsylvania county page excerpt on which that check rests. Related The county case study that this study draws on is published separately: Turner, T. N. (2026). Case Study: Henrico County (version 3.7). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20671031 (concept DOI; version 3.7 is 10.5281/zenodo.22783777). Notes on use Census estimates carry the margins published by the Census Bureau; derived shares use the Bureau's ratio formula. Geocoder results are point-in-polygon assignments at the query date; parcel polygons were not obtained, and the Meta and Iron Mountain sites are not geocoded. Portal dates are activity dates as displayed on the query date. OCR text carries recognition errors; quotations in the study were read against the page images. Opinions of the Supreme Court of Virginia are cited to slip-opinion pages where no reporter pinpoint is given.