By Savannah Eller | The Gazette
A public meeting hosted to discuss a proposed Buc-ee’s location along Interstate 25 packed the Palmer Lake Elementary School cafeteria Tuesday night, frequently turning hostile and argumentative between company representatives and community members.
“We don’t desire your beaver nuggets,” said audience member Alexandra Olivier, who joined an overwhelmingly negative wave of comments at the informational meeting.
Residents raised a myriad of concerns over the travel center, which has been proposed on a piece of current El Paso County land west of I-25 and directly south of County Line Road. Developers have submitted an annexation plan to the county that would bring the site into the town of Palmer Lake under a “flagpole” annexation, connecting the roughly 30-acre property by a thin line to the rest of the town.