Planning commission recommends approval of Urban Landing PUD, 49 homes; neighbors cite traffic and runoff concerns

The El Paso County Planning Commission on a 9-0 vote recommended approval of PUDSP 243, the Urban Landing planned unit development and preliminary plan, which would rezone about 6.5 acres from R-4 to PUD and allow roughly 49 single-family detached homes. The commission’s recommendation includes seven conditions, five notations and a staff finding of sufficiency for water quality, quantity and dependability; the recommendation will go to the Board of County Commissioners for final action.

The project manager, Ryan Hauser, planner with El Paso County, told commissioners the proposed PUD is consistent with the county master plan’s suburban residential place type and with a Tri-Lakes key-area buffer. Daniel Torres, an El Paso County engineering representative, said stormwater runoff would be collected in a private detention pond maintained by the proposed homeowners association and that fees would be assessed at plat recordation.

Urban Landing’s representative, Brooks Swenson of NES Inc., described the…