The Colorado Springs City Council unanimously voted to rezone about 5 acres of land in northern Colorado Springs to build the area’s latest fire station.

Since 2021, the Fire Department has planned to build its Fire Station 24 at the intersection of New Life Drive and Interquest Parkway, east of Pikes Peak State College’s Rampart Range Campus.

The planned one-story, approximately 12,000-square-foot facility will cost $7 million to $10 million to build, fire officials previously estimated when the Planning Commission in mid-March considered the rezoning request.

Fire Station 24 will provide service to a growing part of town, Kenny Rankin, the city’s facility administrator, said Tuesday. Fire Department representatives said previously the area already sees between 700 to 750 calls for service a year and they expect call volumes to increase as development continues in the vicinity.

Rankin said the facility will fill about a 6-mile gap in the Fire Department’s geographical service area between its two nearest fire stations, Station 19 near Research Parkway and Chapel Hills Drive, and Station 22 located off Voyager Parkway and across from Spectrum Loop.

Fire Station 24 will be located about 4.2 miles from Fire Station 22 and about 3.6 miles from Station 19, Rankin said. It will also improve emergency response times in the area.