The Politics of Petrol

Ralph Cramden wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:
“These uses are not allowable land uses within the (Community College District Economic Center) and … they are inconsistent with the (Santa Fe County Growth Management Plan) and (Community College District) plan,”

Santa Fe truck stop rejected

Maybe so, but.........hotels, convenience stores, fast food restaurants, and light industrial uses are allowable uses? I would think that upon appeal to the state district court as mentioned in your article Flying J and the property owner stand a very good chane of having the ruling overruled.

"In three separate 4-1 votes, commissioners approved the conceptual plan for the lot — which includes proposed hotels, a convenience store, fast-food restaurants and other “light industrial” uses — but disapproved pieces of the proposal that would have made up the Pilot Flying J truck stop and travel center: 75 proposed parking spaces for semitrailer trucks, the semitrailer truck weigh station and the truck fueling station."

A reversal on appeal is certainly possible. I posted the quote and link simply to show the planning board's basis for the rejection. How a court sees it is yet to be seen...