Urban Savannah retrieved and read the exact 14-page complaint signed September 2, 2026. Dr. Michelle Finch-Mincey, Lehman Mincey Jr. and Raymond Carver name Effingham County as defendant and seek declarations that Ordinance 2026-352 was unlawfully adopted and is invalid, plus an injunction preventing reliance on it unless required public-hearing procedures are followed.
These are plaintiffs' allegations and requested relief, not a court ruling and not an order stopping Project Camellia.
Why it matters
The verified filing directly challenges the countywide zoning ordinance that added data centers to industrial districts. The complaint does not establish that the allegations are true, does not name OpenAI as a defendant, and does not itself halt the separate Project Camellia review process.
What to watch
Watch the Effingham County Superior Court docket for service, the county's response, any injunction hearing, dismissal, or ruling; preserve the September 2 filing as the event and September 3 as the original packet's source date.
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