El Paso County commissioners to consider 98-home Mayberry plan Nov. 12
The 18.70-acre proposal includes 92 attached homes and six detached homes. The Planning Commission’s approval motion failed 3-4 amid fire-district concerns.
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El Paso County commissioners are scheduled to consider a 98-home Mayberry development on Nov. 12. The Planning Commission’s approval motion failed 3-4, leaving the proposal without an approval recommendation, according to the county’s land-use packet.
The proposal would rezone 18.70 acres at Highway 94 and Mayberry Drive from a conceptual to a site-specific Planned Unit Development and approve a preliminary plan for 92 attached homes, six detached homes, a clubhouse, eight tracts and 5.99 acres of open space. The 99 lots include the clubhouse lot. County staff recommends approval with eight conditions, including resolving outstanding county comments before the plan is recorded. Final plats and building permits would require additional review.
Ellicott Fire Protection District objected to the proposed density, questioning whether rural fire resources and the district’s capacity could serve the added residents. It also raised concerns about water supply, fire-code compliance, wildfire standards and whether the fire report demonstrated required water flow and hydrant spacing.
The applicant’s fire report proposes a central water system designed for 1,500 gallons per minute at a residual pressure of at least 20 pounds per square inch, with hydrants spaced to the cited standard. The applicant also cited an existing tank with 200,000 gallons of storage, 180,000 gallons reserved for fire flow. The district argued that a county code formula would require more than 1 million gallons for the existing development and this phase. County staff said that formula applies when central water is unavailable, while the project proposes central water. Staff said the applicant addressed hydrant spacing and that detailed building-material requirements belong at the building-permit stage.
On service capacity, county staff said the district had not told the county it could not provide service. The applicant said it supplied information about fire access and apparatus turning. The packet does not establish an agreed assessment of staffing availability or response times.
The county estimates the development would generate about 1,236 daily trips and add roughly 1.5 miles of public roads to the county maintenance program after acceptance. The packet does not quantify future maintenance costs. It says the developer is responsible for highway improvements required by its state access permit, and county road-impact fees would be due at the building-permit stage.