Contain Commercial Zoning and Enshrine Community Use in the El Rancho Activity Center

Jefferson County Planning & Zoning’s Comprehensive Master Plan (CMP) process both provides guidelines for development decision making in unincorporated areas and creates maps that identify land use recommendations for every parcel. Current mapping in the CMP’s Evergreen Area Plan (EAP) area for the El Rancho Activity Center (ERAC) shows several parcels with other existing zoning as “appropriate” for future commercial/industrial uses. This mapping is contradictory to the EAP, which explicitly recognizes existing commercial zoning as more than adequate to meet market demand and stipulates that no additional rezoning for commercial/light industrial uses should be necessary in the ERAC.

In recognition of existing surrounding land uses and community priorities articulated in the Evergreen Area Plan, this petition asks Jefferson County Planning & Zoning and the Board of County Commissioners to:

• limit commercial development in the El Rancho Activity Center to existing commercial zoning, centered on Highway 74 and excluding I-70 Exit 251
• withdraw residential and Community Use parcels from CMP mapping for future commercial use in the ERAC, and map Community Use in the ERAC

Please join your neighbors to support these changes to County planning. For full context, maps, and further explanation, visit this link:

http://tinyurl.com/54j8awvy

The full text, along with this petition and its signatures and comments, will be delivered to Jefferson County Planning and Zoning and the Board of County Commissioners in February 2024 in the context of the present and ongoing Comprehensive Master Plan revision process (see https://togetherjeffco.com for more information about that initiative).

Thank you.