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The Reserve at Clay, a proposed Cornerstone Homes CNY LLC subdivision on Lawton Road, needs a zone change from RA-100 to R-7.5 to build 61 single-family lots on 20.18 acres -- land that officials say could otherwise hold only 8 to 10 houses. The Planning Board recommended the change 5-1 on June 10, 2026, even though the Town of Cicero, which shares jurisdiction over Lawton Road, still had not responded to the town's outreach; the Town Board's public hearing remained open as of its last recorded session.

Facing a permit-fee formula built for ordinary construction and a legal risk that a lawsuit could leave it with far less than that formula implies, the Town of Clay negotiated a $30 million Community Host Agreement with Micron for Fab 1 in July 2026 — but the same night's record gives two different Fab 1 price tags ($89 billion and $8.9 billion), a resident's tally of the deal that doesn't match officials' figures, and a Host Agreement vote that the released minutes never record.

Clay's building-permit fee formula - $100 for a project's first $1,000 of value, $7 per thousand after - was built for houses and strip malls; on July 7, 2026, town officials priced Micron's Fab 1 alone at $89 billion and calculated what that old formula would produce: $69 million in fees the state only lets the town spend on inspections. The same collision, of ordinary-scale rules meeting extraordinary-scale machines, runs through the town's whole 2026 record: a battery-storage law repeatedly loosening its own safety numbers while three permit applications wait, a zoning code with no category at all for data centers, and a $30 million Community Host Agreement with Micron that was moved and seconded on July 7 - with no vote recorded before the meeting adjourned.

The Clay Planning Board opened public hearings on a proposed Amazon warehouse, listed in the minutes at 234,300 (the record omits the unit), on Morgan Road and a National Grid gas line expansion serving Micron's Caughdenoy Road campus at its July 22, 2026 meeting. Chairwoman Michelle Borton disputed the warehouse applicant's traffic-impact conclusions on the record and disclosed that the board's own attorney also represents the gas line applicant; both cases, and every other case on the agenda, were adjourned to August 12 without a vote.

The Liverpool Board of Education voted down two proposals at its July 21 meeting: a tax certiorari settlement involving Target #1475 in the Town of Clay failed on a 4-4 tie, and a contract with FEH BOCES for a bus routing efficiency study failed 2-5 with one abstention. The board also approved several other agreements and appointed a new purchasing agent and deputy purchasing agent.

The Clay Town Board adjourned public hearings on all three pending battery energy storage system permits to August 17, and the town's planning commissioner disclosed a six-month moratorium on new applications running April through October, with five applications already waiting.