Episode Twenty-Five - Council Preview (7/2/26)

Wilmington Weekly with Matt Purkey · Jul 1, 2026 · 7m

Thursday’s Wilmington City Council meeting carries the heaviest agenda of the season. Council is set to give final passage to the data center zoning text amendment, the same use category currently being challenged in federal court, five days ahead of the next hearing in that case. A fire department restructuring ordinance gets its first reading, and its text contains an emergency declaration that directly conflicts with what the Safety Director told council last month. And curbside recycling, after months of delay, was pulled from the agenda entirely before this episode published. Matt walks…