Planning Commission recommends Wagner Equipment rezoning for 23.37-acre Colorado Springs site
The unanimous recommendation advances plans for an approximately 80,000-square-foot facility projected by the applicant to employ about 120 people, while traffic and streamside reviews would come later.
The Colorado Springs Planning Commission unanimously recommended Sept. 9 that City Council approve Wagner Equipment’s request to rezone 23.37 acres southeast of East Platte Avenue and Wooten Road. The recommendation advances plans for an approximately 80,000-square-foot facility that the applicant projects would employ about 120 people at full buildout.
The commission approved separate motions recommending a zone-map amendment and related land-use plan. The proposed change would place the northern portion of the site under light-industrial zoning and remove conditions restricting heavy-vehicle sales, rental and repair. Airport, Accident Prevention Zone 1 and 2, and streamside overlays would remain. The Sept. 9 Planning Commission hearing record identifies the applications and records the commission’s recommendations.
Wagner representative William Goomen described the proposed building and said the facility would eventually employ roughly 120 full-time skilled and professional trade workers, with a smaller workforce at the start. A project statement submitted with the application says a development plan was submitted with the land-use plan.
The recommendation does not authorize construction. A traffic-impact study will be required during development-plan review, when access, turning radii and engineering plans will be evaluated. The southwest corner of the site overlaps the streamside overlay’s 150-foot buffer, where staff said additional streamside review will be required.
City Council approval and later development-plan review are still required before construction could proceed. The council scheduling records reviewed as of Sept. 11 did not specify when the applications would be considered.