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The City Attorney's client is the City of Fayetteville. The City Attorney's responsibility is to provide objective legal advice based on the law and the best interests of the city.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Blake Pennington blake@blakeforfayetteville.com FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (August 11, 2026) — As communities across Arkansas and the nation consider how to regulate data centers, the Fayettevi lle City Council is preparing to review changes to the city’s ordinance addressing the facilities. The current provision restricting data centers to general industrial zones and requiring conditional use permits, 1,000-foot residential buffers, and detailed utili

Municipal law is a specialized area of legal practice. Like healthcare, business, or criminal law, it requires experience with a unique set of laws, procedures, and responsibilities. Every day, a City Attorney helps other elected officials and city staff make decisions that affect roads, parks, public safety, economic development, housing, public records, contracts, zoning, and taxpayer resources. Those decisions must comply with Arkansas law while protecting the city's long-

You can think of the Fayetteville City Attorney as a lawyer who represents the City of Fayetteville. If the Mayor runs the day to day operations of the city, and the City Council sets policy, then the City Attorney makes sure that the city follows the law. Rather than making policy, the city attorney helps ensure that the decisions made by elected officials and city departments are within the law and do not create unnecessary risks for the residents of Fayetteville. The duti