Officials in El Paso County, Colorado, have rejected an initial request to classify a proposed Buc-ee’s as a “convenience store,” creating the latest obstacle for a project that has already faced more than a year of local opposition.<\/p>\n
The decision comes just months after an entity tied to Buc-ee’s purchased roughly 32 acres near Interstate 25 and Exit 163, about 20 miles north of Colorado Springs, for $10 million. The site had previously been targeted for a Buc-ee’s before the original proposal stalled amid community pushback.<\/p>\n
While the property is zoned for commercial use that allows convenience stores, county officials said it does not permit a gas station or truck stop.<\/p>\n
The proposed Buc-ee’s would include a roughly 74,000-square-foot store, 120 fuel pumps and nearly 790 parking spaces, a scale county planners described as “mixed and uncommon” for developments in unincorporated El Paso County.<\/p>\n
After reviewing previous approvals for convenience stores and fuel stations, planning staff concluded they could not determine whether the project qualifies as an allowed use under the site’s C-1 zoning designation.<\/p>\n
“Based on the definitions, historical approvals, and comparative analysis, staff finds it difficult to classify the proposed use,” the county wrote in its determination letter.<\/p>\n
The ruling does not end the project. Buc-ee’s has 30 days from the July 1 determination to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n
If ultimately approved, the Colorado location would join Buc-ee’s growing national footprint, as the Texas-based chain continues expanding well beyond its home state with new travel centers planned or under construction across several states.<\/p>\n
Buc-ee’s had no comment on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in El Paso County, Colorado, have rejected an initial request to classify a proposed Buc-ee’s as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4620,821,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-363842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-alertable-bucees-msa","tag-mysabusiness","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}