Tag: colorado springs planning commission
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Project Taurus / Planning Commission public meeting: Live updates on proposed Colorado Springs data center; Raeden CEO speaks
The Colorado Springs Planning Commission is meeting Thursday as it considers a proposal to build a 50 megawatt data center off the Garden of the Gods Road corridor. The meeting, which started around 9 a.m., is happening at the Shockley-Zalabak Theater at the Ent Center for the Performing Arts, 5225 N. Nevada Ave. The proposal,…
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Resident who appealed Project Taurus decision indicted over ‘Cop City’ protest in Atlanta
Nearly two weeks before Katie Kloth wrote to the Colorado Springs Planning Department challenging the approval of a proposed data center, she was indicted by a federal grand jury in Georgia. City planning staff administratively approved the development plan for the controversial Project Taurus data center in an industrial park off Garden of the Gods…
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How a 14-year-old joined the fight against the Project Taurus data center
Kyle McGuffey is four years away from being able to vote, but he’s become deeply involved in the debate over a proposed data center in Colorado Springs. The 14-year-old heard about the Project Taurus data center from a TikTok video he saw in the spring. The data center, which California-based company Raeden plans to build…
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Colorado Springs sets location, ground rules for data center hearing at Planning Commission
The stage has been announced for the debate over the proposed Project Taurus data center before the Colorado Springs Planning Commission. The city announced Thursday that a special appeal hearing for the data center will be held July 23 at the Shockley-Zalabak Theater at the Ent Center for the Arts to accommodate the expected high…
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Five Project Taurus data center appeals meet requirements, city says
Five appeals filed against the proposed Project Taurus AI data center have met the minimum requirements to move through the process, Colorado Springs officials announced Tuesday. The appeals are challenges to the city planning staff’s June 11 approval of the development plan for a data center from the California-based technology company Raeden. The data center…
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Plan approved to turn Colorado Springs hotel into behavioral health center
A debate Wednesday over establishing a new addiction treatment center in southeast Colorado Springs brought out both skeptics and supporters of the proposed reuse of a former hotel. The New York-based behavioral health network Aspen BHC asked the Colorado Springs Planning Commission to approve a development plan that turns the Holiday Inn Colorado Springs Airport…
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First draft of Colorado Springs rules for recreational marijuana sales released
The first draft of Colorado Springs’ new rules for recreational marijuana sales was released ahead of Wednesday’s Planning Commission meeting. The proposed ordinance, placed on the agenda for the Planning Commission, includes the strictest restrictions on the locations for the retail sales allowed by the measure city voters passed in November. The ordinance also outlines…
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New business district approved in far north Colorado Springs
Editor’s note: The story has been updated with the location for the new business district, slated for the intersection of Colorado 83 and Powers Boulevard. The highly visible intersection of Colorado 83 and Powers Boulevard in far north Colorado Springs is slated for a new business district, called Kettle Creek Center. The Colorado Springs Planning…
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Colorado Springs retail marijuana ordinance could ‘go against the will of the people,’ commissioners caution
A proposed Colorado Springs ordinance that would preemptively limit where facilities selling recreational marijuana may operate in the city could possibly subvert the will of local voters, planning commissioners said during a special meeting Wednesday. Colorado Springs currently does not permit recreational marijuana sales, but a citizen-backed question on the November ballot proposes authorizing the…
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Plans for future of Union Printers Home gets Colorado Springs Planning Commission approval
The Colorado Springs Planning Commission on Wednesday nudged the city a few steps closer to a whole cloth remake of the 26-plus acre historic Union Printers Home property. The commission voted 7-0 approving a series of recommendations that could pave the way for a project that – if city leaders follow suit — likely will take…