Ambika, impacting local community

When Fort Worth’s Zoning Commission considered rules for the region’s growing data center industry, Ambika pushed for real, substantive regulation, including a full 1-mile buffer between data centers and homes or hospitals, not an arbitrary number of feet.

Ambika has also urged the City to pause new data center approvals until stronger protections are in place, arguing Fort Worth needs to be more thoughtful about which projects it welcomes.

When the City Council moved to begin the moratorium process, Ambika pushed for urgency, not delay: “I urge that a special meeting be called immediately and that we don’t wait until August 11 to vote on starting the process for the data center moratorium officially. We are wasting valuable time.”

When Tarrant County College considered a tax rate increase, Ambika pushed trustees to protect the residents who’d be hit hardest (lower-income families and seniors) through stronger exemptions.

And when critics alleged TCC had mismanaged its funds, Ambika didn’t just repeat the accusation, she looked into it herself, attended the budget workshop, and said plainly that she found no evidence of mismanagement. That’s the standard she’ll bring to TAD: follow the facts, not the narrative.

At the October 5 candidate forum, Ambika called the two-year freeze an experiment that produced unprecedented property tax hikes as local governments failed to predict their revenue. She supports returning to annual appraisals so values track the market.

Her Place 2 opponents split on the question: one proposes appraisals every five years, one supports the current two-year freeze, and one did not answer the voter guide at all.