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.”
Tag: Land Use & Zoning
Posted inLocal News
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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Permission Granted: A County Board That Has Never Said No
Since 2021 the El Paso County commissioners have approved every land-use application they have voted on. Follow the money, and the pattern looks less like coincidence.
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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.