Tag: buc-ee’s
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Palmer Lake trustee files two suits against fellow town leaders
His successful election to the Palmer Lake Board of Trustees this past fall has not stopped resident Roger Moseley’s legal action against the town. He has two active lawsuits, filed in October and December of last year. The latter suit against the small town north of Colorado Springs alleges procedural mistakes. Filed on Dec. 5…
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Palmer Lake Buc-ee’s still in limbo, 3 town positions vacant after raucous meeting
The fate of the controversial Buc-ee’s annexation by the town of Palmer Lake was again kicked down the road. At issue during a marathon six-hour meeting filled with drama Thursday night was the process. A successful ballot initiative passed in September required any annexations into Palmer Lake pass a majority vote of residents. The prior…
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Palmer Lake to discuss Buc-ee’s, recall elections Thursday
The newly-whole Palmer Lake Board of Trustees will have an opportunity Thursday to discuss the setting for two issues going to town voters in the new year. The first is when and how to field a ballot question on the perennially divisive Buc-ee’s annexation, which would bring 30 acres near Interstate 25 into the town’s…
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Palmer Lake deadlocked on appointment, while Buc-ee’s election date undecided
Last week’s resignation of Mayor Pro Tem Amy Hutson put the new and deeply divided Palmer Lake board of trustees in a conundrum. The board, which is split 3-3, needs to appoint a new tie-breaking trustee, but it cannot decide on the process. The new trustee could tip the scale one way or another, including…
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Palmer Lake deadlocked on appointment, while Buc-ee’s election date undecided
Last week’s resignation of Mayor Pro Tem Amy Hutson put the new and deeply divided Palmer Lake board of trustees in a conundrum. The board, which is split 3-3, needs to appoint a new tie-breaking trustee, but it cannot decide on the process. The new trustee could tip the scale one way or another, including…
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Lawsuit against Palmer Lake over Buc-ee’s dismissed, trustee resigns
A lawsuit against the town of Palmer Lake in a bid to halt an effort to build the second Buc-ee’s location in Colorado was dismissed Friday. The plaintiff, Integrity Matters, alleged the town violated citizens’ First Amendment rights, due process and the Colorado Public Meetings Law in deciding eligibility for the annexation of certain unincorporated…
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Buc-ee’s annexation vote will go Palmer Lake residents
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated since it was originally published Thursday night. Residents of Palmer Lake will decide the fate of a proposed Buc-ee’s travel center after the town’s Board of Trustees voted 4-3 Thursday night to postpone a zoning hearing over a corresponding needed property annexation. The vote came during a contentious special meeting…
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Palmer Lake annexation question headed to vote of the people after hearing is postponed
Residents of Palmer Lake will decide the fate of a proposed Buc-ee’s travel center after the town’s Board of Trustees voted 4-3 Thursday night to postpone a zoning hearing over the proposed annexation. The vote came during a contentious special meeting of the trustees. What’s next? Residents of the small town on the north edge…
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EDITORIAL: Locals need a say in community development
A small-town tussle over plans for Colorado’s second Buc-ee’s — on I-25 along the Palmer Divide, between Denver and Colorado Springs — has mushroomed over the past half year into a statewide debate that has drawn in wide-ranging stakeholders and even political luminaries. The controversy could be resolved as early as today, when the Palmer…
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Palmer Lake adopts voter-approved ordinance with big implications for Buc-ee’s
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Earlier this month, voters in Palmer Lake voted in favor of an ordinance that would make any request to increase the size of the town an automatic ballot question. That would include the controversial annexation request from developers of the Texas travel chain Buc-ee’s. Public debate over the annexation was a motivating factor in the…