Colorado Springs council to consider annexation for proposed 800-student PTAA campus
The July 28 agenda includes annexation and zoning measures for a proposed grades 6-12 campus near Stetson Hills Boulevard and North Marksheffel Road; the record does not yet quantify traffic impacts.
Colorado Springs City Council is scheduled July 28 to consider annexing 14.12 acres near Stetson Hills Boulevard and North Marksheffel Road for a proposed Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy charter-school campus.
The property is southeast of the intersection in Council District 6. The council agenda lists Ordinance 26-32 for the PTAA Addition No. 1 annexation and Ordinance 26-33 to ratify and apply Ordinance 25-71, which established an MX-M/AP-O mixed-use and airport-overlay district and a PTAA Charter School Land Use Plan.
The PTAA project statement describes an 800-student school for grades 6 through 12, with a 47,000-square-foot school building, a 23,600-square-foot gymnasium, two parking lots totaling 155 spaces, drop-off and pickup drives, a 10,000-square-foot outdoor play area and water-quality and detention facilities.
The ratification is a procedural correction tied to the earlier annexation. The draft ordinance says Ordinance 25-71 and the land-use plan depended on Ordinance 25-70, which the city later deemed “void and of no effect due to certain conveyances.” If adopted, Ordinance 26-33 would apply the prior zoning and land-use plan to the new annexation and make them effective at the same time.
The annexation agreement requires Huber Road to be annexed, constructed, inspected and accepted into probation before the school opens. The owner would pay for the road work, which must follow city code and the approved plan.
The agenda lists a traffic-impact analysis among the project materials, but the accessible records reviewed for this advance do not provide its trip-generation, intersection, queue or level-of-service findings or a parcel-specific mitigation schedule. The July 28 action would not open the school or complete construction; it would establish the proposed campus’s land-use footing if both ordinances pass and subsequent recording and development steps occur.