On Friday, Palmer Lake announced a negotiated agreement with Buc-ee’s on a proposed annexation of land for a travel station.<\/p>\n
In the agreement, the town states Buc-ee’s obligations if the annexation passes, including water use, road re-pavements and various costs toward Palmer Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As part of the agreement, Buc-ee’s offered to pay for the installation of a well that the town had already planned on building. This will save almost $4.3 million, according to town officials. In addition to this, Buc-ee’s will install a second well and a water line, which will cost over $9 million, the agreement says.<\/p>\n
The agreement also claims that Buc-ee’s is to make a one-time payment to the town of $350,000 within 30 days of opening, and another $150,000 to go toward “specific public uses.”<\/p>\n
The town noted a concern of crime being attracted to the area and collaborated with police chiefs in several towns where Buc-ee’s has locations, who mostly assured town officials of no significant increase, only the occasional weekend or holiday 911-call spike. One chief in Terrell, Texas, did note his department increased its budget by $400,000 after their Buc-ee’s opened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Palmer Lake’s Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on the negotiated agreement at a meeting on Aug. 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Palmer Lake announced a negotiated agreement with Buc-ee’s on a proposed annexation of land for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[31659,192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-38787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-buc-ee","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}