El Paso County’s commissioners will hear Buc-ee’s appeal on Thursday, Aug. 27, deciding whether a 74,000-square-foot travel plaza is a “convenience store” under C-1 zoning.
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Monument Council Asks the County to Reject Buc-ee’s Zoning Claim
Monument’s council voted 7-0 to urge El Paso County to uphold its Buc-ee’s determination and reject the convenience-store label; the town’s press release asks the commissioners to go further.
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A Colorado Springs Councilman Told a Forum on Civility That Palmer Lake Was Steamrolled. Palmer Lake Won.
A councilman told a forum on civility that Palmer Lake refused a Buc-ee’s and got it built anyway. The town forced the company out. Nothing is being built.
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Where the Easement Ends: Two Land Trusts Join the Buc-ee’s Argument
Two land trusts have signed an open letter against the Buc-ee’s proposed for Monument Hill. Neither can stop it. What they can do is make it harder to decide quietly—because one of them holds the paper on the 17,700 acres across the road. Another voice has entered the long argument over the travel center proposed […]
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The Last Line of Defense: How Greenland Ranch Keeps Denver and Colorado Springs Apart
Twenty-six years ago a cable billionaire, a county and a lottery-funded land program bought the view north of County Line Road. The easement they built stops at the county line — which is exactly where Buc-ee’s is standing.
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Call It a Truck Stop: Opposition Group Publishes Its Own Answer to the Buc-ee’s Question
A 29-page analysis released July 15th by Tri-Lakes Preservation works through El Paso County’s own classification criteria and lands on the one label Buc-ee’s has spent this fight avoiding: a truck stop.
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Buc-ee’s Appeals — and the Question Lands with the Commissioners
Having failed to get a quiet “yes,” Buc-ee’s is taking its convenience-store claim to the elected Board of County Commissioners. Its 298-page appeal argues the county’s code, read literally, makes a 74,000-square-foot travel plaza a “convenience store” — and that the board, as the code’s “ultimate interpreter,” should say so.
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Is a Buc-ee’s a “Convenience Store”? The County Says It Cannot Tell
The administrative shortcut Buc-ee’s chose has produced no answer. El Paso County’s planning director says she cannot determine whether the proposed 74,000-square-foot travel plaza on Monument Hill is a “convenience store”—so she has neither approved it nor denied it. The one party who can appeal the non-ruling is Buc-ee’s itself.
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Eighty-Plus Objections to Buc-ee’s, Filed “for Reference Only”
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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Choose Wisely
Buc-ee’s lost a public vote in Palmer Lake, then bought the land anyway and turned to El Paso County — where a citizen never gets to vote, where the Board of County Commissioners has denied just two of 476 land-use decisions since 2018 — neither a housing or commercial development — and where the company is now trying to avoid even that board. An examination of eight years of votes, two decades of campaign money, and the small circle of people who keep electing one another.