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To our Evergreen neighbors:
The owners of the ca. 1948 El Rancho Colorado restaurant building, 1948 Holdings LLC, have sent a pre-application to Jefferson County proposing to demolish or move the building and, combined with the former First Bank property, build a 4-acre QuikTrip interstate service center with a 20-bay gas station, 10 diesel pumps for semi trucks, and a convenience store occupying the vacated footprint of the erstwhile restaurant. See QuikTrip's proposed facility: https://tinyurl.com/bdebcvrr
What is proposed would be the largest fueling center of any kind on the Front Range, more than four and a half times the average size of a "gas station" in the Foothills: https://tinyurl.com/3re9szt2
It is aimed squarely at I-70 travelers and trucks, not the people, community, scale, and values of Evergreen.
To QuikTrip:
Evergreen does not need a characterless truck stop the size of four football fields. It has a community-scale convenience store as well as a Walmart Supercenter right across the road, among several other gas stations along Hwy 74.
This explicitly I-70 oriented development would not serve the people of Evergreen.
The proposed QuikTrip #4288 does not belong here. Please, move on.
Orsak
The proposed project pays lip service to County planning, but fundamentally it is contrived to exploit interstate travelers and is not in response to community needs or community-level market demand. Instead, the irreparable losses of cultural heritage, scenic value, and community character, as well as the direct impacts of light, noise, and traffic associated with this proposed project would be borne by the Evergreen community forever.
Amid proposals like this one, the Save El Rancho Campaign exists to prioritize the character and livability of this neighborhood as part of the mountain residential community of Evergreen.
