El Paso County brings its draft Land Development Code to the Woodmoor Barn on Monday, September 21. Comments on the 516-page draft close October 16.
Tag: Land Use & Zoning
Posted inLocal News
A Yes Vote with a Warning: The Needles Rezoning Goes to Commissioners
The Planning Commission backed smaller lots off Highway 83, 6-3. One of the six asked where it stops.
Posted inGovernment
Colorado Springs Will Decide Project Taurus a Week After Its Election
Colorado Springs postponed Project Taurus to April 13, 2027, a week after its election. The approval rests on which of two old approvals counts as the original.
Posted inGovernment
Vertex Consulting Files Its Rezonings With the Department It Came From
Craig Dossey ran El Paso County’s planning department and Nina Ruiz was his planning manager. Their firm has eight rezoning files open at the county, two of them before the Board on September 24.
Posted inLocal News
Denied in July, Walker Road Rezoning Returns as RM-12 and RS-5000
Less than seven weeks after El Paso County commissioners denied multi-family zoning at Highway 83 and Walker Road, the landowner has filed two new requests for the same 15 acres, now zoned for five-acre rural lots: multi-dwelling zoning allowing up to 12 dwelling units an acre on the northern half, and small-lot single-family and duplex […]
Posted inGovernment
Monument Town Council, September 8, 2026: An E-Bike Ordinance Ordered, a Drive-Thru Sent Back, a Plan Nobody Could Find
Monument’s council ordered a draft e-bike and e-moto ordinance carrying a $250 fine for parents, sent a Jackson Creek Parkway drive-thru back over its driveways, and approved a shop building that the site’s own well had already shrunk.
Posted inOpinion
What Made Each Place Distinct
El Paso County retired all ten of its small area plans in 2021. Douglas, Larimer and Boulder counties still plan place by place.
Posted inLocal News
El Paso County Is Rewriting the Rules the Buc-ee’s Fight Turned On
Three days after the Board of County Commissioners used the current land code to clear a 74,000-square-foot travel center on Monument Hill, the county’s consultants are circulating a 516-page draft that would rebuild that code from the studs.
Posted inGovernment
Eight Hours at Centennial Hall: How Buc-ee’s Won Its Appeal
The Board of County Commissioners voted 4-1 on Thursday to allow a 74,000-square-foot travel center at Interstate 25 and County Line Road. The motion that carried never found the project to be a convenience store. It found it similar enough to other things the district allows — and that distinction governs everything that follows.
Posted inGovernment
Commissioners Grant Buc-ee’s Appeal, 4-1
El Paso County commissioners voted 4-1 to grant Buc-ee’s appeal, overturning the Planning Director’s determination on the C-1 classification.