Opinion: When the county cut their speaking time at the last minute, dozens of Tri-Lakes residents rewrote their testimony over lunch and showed what civic engagement looks like at its best.
Tag: Highway 83 & Walker Road
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After the Denial: What the County’s Vote Does — and Doesn’t — Settle
El Paso County denied the Highway 83 & Walker Road rezoning 3–2. What comes next — appeal, refile, or build by right — and how each commissioner voted.
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At Highway 83 and Walker Road, a Test of the County’s Own Rules
El Paso County commissioners take up the Highway 83 & Walker Road rezoning July 23 — 229 public comments opposed, and a 6-1 denial from their own planning commission.
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Drains, Lanes and Automobiles
The developer behind the Highway 83 and Walker Road rezoning also owns the private water utility that would serve it — a new plant regional reviewers say is about $1m short of funding.
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For Love of Place
A Woodmoor resident’s letter to the editor: as zoning language is stretched to fit Buc-ee’s and the Highway 83 rezoning, the Tri-Lakes must fill Centennial Hall on July 23.
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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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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.