Residents are writing to El Paso County by the dozen to oppose the proposed travel plaza on Monument Hill. The county is logging every message—and stamping each one “not part of the official record.”
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The Fourth in Monument: A Parade at Ten, No Fireworks This Year
Monument’s Fourth of July, Saturday, July 4: the Kiwanis parade, a street fair and beer garden, where to park — and why there are no fireworks this year.
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Buc-ee’s Tries the Back Door
A travel-center giant that much of the Tri-Lakes has opposed—and that would sit about two miles from the new Greenland wildlife crossing—is asking a single county official to wave it through, by ruling that a 74,000-square-foot plaza is just a “convenience store.”
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At Highway 83 and Walker Road, a Setback for Density
El Paso County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to recommend rejecting two rezonings that would allow apartments beside Monument Academy and the rural Walden neighborhood. The county commissioners will have the last word on July 23rd. For the better part of four hours on June 18th, the El Paso County Planning Commission listened to residents […]
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What the Garden of the Gods Data-Center Fight Means for the Tri-Lakes
Colorado Springs approved a data center on a staff signature this month, well south of the Tri-Lakes. If the next one targets unincorporated land near Monument, the decision would fall to five county commissioners — and to an aquifer the region is already racing to escape.
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Rezoning at the Schoolhouse Gate
A plan to drop hundreds of apartments onto a rural stretch of Highway 83 reunites a familiar Tri-Lakes cast — and the county’s own staff recommends approval even as the county’s own plan argues against it.
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The Road That Lost Its Baptists
How Baptist Road got its name: a vanished fox farm, the Black Forest Baptist Assembly summer camp, a salvaged bell — and why the only church on the road today is Lutheran.