Energy, Utilities & Water  May 2, 2023

Wellington planners delay decision on asphalt plant

WELLINGTON — Saying it needed to gather more information, the Wellington Planning Commission on Monday delayed until June 5 final consideration of a site-plan proposal for an asphalt-mixing plant near a community park, an elementary school and the growing Buffalo Creek neighborhood.

Connell Resources LLC is seeking to move its existing asphalt batch plant from a site near the proposed Ladera mixed-use development in Timnath, where it has operated for more than 30 years, to a 35.56-acre site along Larimer County Road 66 and the BNSF Railway in Wellington that has been zoned Heavy Industrial for 23 years, before many of…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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