Orange County Residents Largely Oppose Planned Buc-ee s at Final Public Hearings
Special Virtual Meeting on Jan. 12, 2021
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with residents Tuesday night for the last of three public hearing sessions that began in mid-December. The hearings regarded a proposed rezoning that would allow Buc-ee s, a Texas-owned gas station and convenience store company, to build their first North Carolina branch in the small unincorporated community of Efland.
The proposed development would be split into two phases. It would create jobs and potential tax revenue for the county, but it would also mean the creation of a 120-nozzle fueling station that requires six large underground tanks to be placed on top of a protected watershed.
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Buc-ee’s, the popular chain of travel centers across Texas, is still planning the location in Boerne it first announced in 2016.
Buc-ee’s General Counsel Jeff Nadalo confirmed that the company’s current schedule has the store opening in early 2023, near I-10 and U.S. Business 87.
“We are waiting on significant utility infrastructure improvements to be completed by the Texas Department of Transportation before we can begin construction,” Nadalo said in an email.
The project site is 33375 IH-10 W., according to city of Boerne documents. When proposed, Boerne and Kendall County documents cited an estimated construction cost of $20 million for the 53,000-square-foot project.