Project Taurus is the name used in the Colorado Springs Accela planning record DEPN-26-0039 for an approved development-plan modification involving reuse of an existing industrial/data-center site at 1565 HIGH TECH WAY.
The project is approved at the public Accela planning-record level and is now in a City Planning Commission appeal process. A July 2, 2026 City agenda identifies five related appeals, APPL-26-0003 through APPL-26-0007, and schedules a quasi-judicial special appeal hearing for July 23. The agenda establishes docket identifiers and scheduled placement, not appeal merits or outcome.
A June 25 ELL/URR retrieval supports the general Colorado Springs Utilities large-load and special-contract framework, including the February 24, 2026 adoption of Resolution No. 10-26 and the March 1, 2026 effective date for revised ELL sheets. It did not surface public Project Taurus-specific service, special-contract, collateral, capacity, purchased-power, or infrastructure-cost records. Important project-specific records still remain open: City-native appeal records, CSU service/cost terms, water/construction-drawing records, state generator permits, final sound monitoring plan, and the executed development agreement.
A June 29 CSU CORA response materially improves custody for the Raeden-branded 1615 Garden of The Gods - Power Overview and Approach document: CSU produced a responsive redacted copy and a transmittal email showing an October 24, 2025 Raeden email with a .docx attachment. The same response did not verify the user's submitted copy as complete and unaltered; CSU said changes were made and Utilities could not verify that copy's authenticity.
The Accela file describes reuse of an existing building with ancillary office use, site changes, chiller and generator yards, and sound-attenuating fences. The project statement describes the site as a former Intel microchip fabrication facility and says the project is not proposing new freestanding buildings or new building square footage, although it does replace and reconfigure mechanical and utility yards.
The official record address is 1565 HIGH TECH WAY. Public and applicant materials also use Garden of the Gods / Chelsea Glen / campus descriptors. Treat those as location references unless a later source reconciles them more precisely.
DEPN-26-0039Approved1565 HIGH TECH WAY, Colorado Springs732610113621.963G VENTURE II LLC| Source | Target | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Springs Land Use Review Division | Project Taurus | Development-plan modification approval | Land-use approval authority | direct evidence | Accela case page and June 11 approval letter |
| Raeden / project team | Project Taurus public record | Public-comments response and project submittals | Applicant technical/economic assurances | verified with attribution | April 22 Raeden response and project statements |
| Colorado Springs Utilities | Project Taurus utility questions | Public ELL / URR / large-load framework | General service-rule and cost-recovery context | direct evidence for framework; unresolved for Project Taurus-specific terms | June 25 ELL record retrieval source cluster |
| Raeden | Colorado Springs Utilities | October 24, 2025 transmittal email with power-overview .docx attachment |
Applicant-side power-scale, commissioning, transformer, and generation representations | direct evidence for CSU-produced transmittal; attributed evidence for Raeden claims | June 29 CSU CORA response source cluster |
| D.L. Adams Associates | Project Taurus review | Mechanical noise study | Applicant technical modeling | direct evidence for model contents | May 29 DLAA report |
| Hankard Environmental Inc. | Project Taurus review / City Planning | Independent noise modeling memo | Technical validation within scoped noise question | independent validation | June 1 HEI memo |
The strongest source basis is the Accela source package indexed at _index and summarized in Project Taurus official planning and approval source cluster, 2026. The City/CSU process, water, future-change, and utility-framework layer is summarized in Project Taurus city process, water, and utility guardrails source cluster, 2026, with the June 25 ELL retrieval summarized in Project Taurus CSU Electric Large Load record retrieval source cluster, 2026-06-25. The June 29 CSU CORA authentication response is summarized in Project Taurus CSU CORA Raeden power-overview authentication source cluster, 2026-06-29. The public-claim and media frame is summarized in Project Taurus local media and public-claim source cluster, 2026.
Use the June 23 KRDO capture only for attributed appeal-status wording. Use the June 24 official-source window for the narrower source-state finding that tested public City/Legistar routes still did not expose City-native appeal files, hearing materials, or an outcome.
Use the claims ledger before public-facing prose: project-taurus-claims-ledger-2026-06-15.
APPL-26-0003 through APPL-26-0007?.docx, native email, headers, attachment hash, and redaction log?