By Bob Hembree, Lake Powell Chronicle
The visual landscape of this high-desert community has become a primary battlefield in a high-stakes debate over the town’s identity and its future. As the City of Page navigates a feasibility period for a massive, 500-acre data center project, a two-pronged resistance movement has emerged to challenge the council majority ahead of a pivotal election cycle. The conflict has moved from city council chambers to the street corners of the community in a series of events now known locally as the “sign wars.”
The Strategy of Divergence
While the opposition to the data center appears unified in its goal, it is deeply divided in its tactics. This divergence has created an “inside-outside” strategy that allows the movement to pressure the city on multiple fronts. On one side is the formal No Page Data…
