Bobcat seeks commercial zoning for 12.9 acres east of U.S. 85
The proposed equipment facility would sit outside the county’s designated industrial development nodes, and the county plan favors concentrating commercial uses in those nodes.
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Bobcat of the Rockies is seeking commercial zoning and approval for interim septic service on 12.9 acres east of U.S. 85, where it proposes an equipment sales, rental and service facility. The Douglas County Planning Commission is scheduled to review the request Nov. 16, followed by a separate county commissioners’ hearing Dec. 8, the commission agenda lists.
The proposed facility would include a roughly 30,000-square-foot building. The applicant says steep slopes leave about five acres of the site developable. The property is about 3,000 feet southeast of Titan Road, the county staff report says.
The request conflicts with the county’s Comprehensive Master Plan, which favors locating commercial and industrial uses in designated development nodes rather than along a continuous strip of U.S. 85. The site is outside the mapped industrial nodes. The plan supports continued agriculture and low-density clustered housing on agricultural properties east of the highway, and says commercial or industrial rezoning is inconsistent with that area’s intent. The applicant argues the steep terrain and location beside the highway, across from industrial uses, make the property unsuitable for farming or housing; it says a commercial use could transition between industrial and residential areas. The Louviers Conservation Partnership objected to the plan fit and advocated centralized wastewater treatment.
The applicant estimates its proposed onsite wastewater system would handle 1,000 gallons per day. The County Health Department found that use and flow compatible with septic service if the system is properly designed and permitted. The applicable overlay’s average-flow limit is 1,999 gallons per day. No central sewer is nearby; if sewer infrastructure is within 400 feet during a future land-use review, connection would be required. The applicant also proposes to finance a roughly 2,600-foot extension of Roxborough Water and Sanitation District service, but district inclusion and further service approvals would still be needed.
The Planning Commission will make a recommendation; county commissioners will decide the rezoning request at the later hearing. Access and wastewater permits, among other later development reviews, would also remain.