Iron Guard Workforce Housing

Said the camp harms public safety — citing the December 2025 wildfire evacuation gridlock from Meta and Microsoft traffic and shortcut cutting through Bison Crossing — degrades property values and wildlife, and noted the camp would be larger than 84 Wyoming towns.

A father of two young children less than half a mile away asked why this location was chosen over Swan Ranch or leased ranch land north of town.

Wants a guarantee Orchard Valley's water isn't touched, said truck traffic and sheriff and fire staffing aren't figured out, and urged the commission to back off and get it right before shoving it down anyone's throat.

A real estate professional who supports safe workforce housing asked the commission to look at the 10-12 year picture — infrastructure costs, cumulative impacts, and whether 'temporary' becomes permanent industrial land use — and to consider the site for senior or affordable housing later.

Cited North Dakota and Montana oil-boom statistics showing big jumps in violent crime and sex trafficking, worried about the interstate crossroads location near his home, and asked whether the camp is a tool to force annexation.

The House District 12 state representative said her constituents don't want it, recalled man camp violence in her youth in Uinta County, said the sheriff needs at least four more patrolmen, and pledged to run her annexation bill again.

Suggested the project list amounts to an emergency justifying a land-use moratorium, said the county doesn't have to accommodate every project, and demanded billionaires contribute meaningfully rather than get tax breaks; later added a plea for sidewalks and lower school-zone speed limits.

A new Winchester Hills homeowner said the south end of town is already strained — traffic, gas stations, one grocery store — and pleaded with the commission to slow down, noting neighbors are already selling and moving out over the data centers.

A data center industry worker who lives across the field, he is 100% for the camp, recounting how his hometown without workforce housing saw rents quadruple — and noted these are skilled craftsmen, not the stereotype.

Recounted a would-be buyer who walked away from his Cherry Hills-area land once learning data centers were nearby, saying property values don't always go up and that he worries about his grown children's safety.

The president of IBEW Local 415, representing 300 local electricians, pushed back on the crime rhetoric — union workers police themselves — said hotels are booting workers during Frontier Days, and said 'we have to do this.'

Not opposed to the camp itself — just wants it further from residential neighborhoods, calling it her back door.

Responding to 'it has to be done,' she said the housing shortage doesn't justify cramming a man camp down residents' throats where it isn't wanted.

Born and raised in Orchard Valley, he's not against the camp — just the location — noting his quiet neighborhood with a disabled mother and two foster children.

Wants to know how the city and county will prepare — they already lack police and social infrastructure — and whether six-figure workers will even stay in the camp or hit the real estate market.

Wonders what 5,000 young men with a weekend and motorcycles will do to Cheyenne's noise and quality of life, given existing noise ordinances aren't enforced.

A 73-year-old lifelong resident tired of hearing 'we can't raise taxes' on oil, gas, wind, or data centers — questions why tax incentives keep being given away.

The Wyoming AFL-CIO executive director said workforce housing has to happen or rents will keep climbing, noted the apprenticeship program grew from 30 to 200 locals, and urged finding middle ground rather than 'no at any cost' or 'yes at any cost.'