Eagle County sets Dec. 14 hearing in El Jebel on The Fields plan for 19 acres on Valley Road
A Nov. 6 public hearing notice says the county commissioners will consider a zone change, a preliminary subdivision, a water and wastewater permit and roadway and sidewalk variances for The Fields at 554 Valley Road. Comments can be submitted online or by mail.
Residents of El Jebel will have a formal chance to weigh in next month on what can be built on a 19 acre parcel on Valley Road. A public hearing notice dated Nov. 6 sets a hearing before the Eagle County Board of County Commissioners for Monday, Dec. 14, at approximately 4 p.m., on an application called The Fields, for the property at 554 Valley Road in El Jebel.
The hearing will be held at the El Jebel Community Center, in the Mt. Sopris Room at 0020 Eagle County Drive in El Jebel, according to the notice. The property in the application covers about 19.393 acres, and the notice lists its parcel number as 2391-334-01-003. The notice alone does not approve anything: it schedules the session at which the commissioners will consider the requests and hear from the public.
Four requests in one application
The application is filed under four case numbers: SSP-009607-2025, ZC-009604-2025, 1041-9605-2025 and VIS009606-2025. Together they cover a zone change for the property and preliminary subdivision approval, a permit covering water and wastewater infrastructure for the site, and variances for roadway and sidewalk work, according to the notice summary of the application.
That combination is why the hearing matters beyond a single lot split. A zone change decides what uses the land can carry, a preliminary subdivision sets how it can be divided, the infrastructure permit governs how water and wastewater service reaches the site, and the variances decide where the project can depart from standard roadway and sidewalk requirements. Each element is part of the same Dec. 14 consideration, not a series of separate hearings.
Comments on the application can be submitted online or mailed to Eagle County Community Development, the notice says. The hearing is the public session at which the board will take up the four case files together.
Valley Road is already being rebuilt
The hearing lands in a corridor that Eagle County has spent this year rebuilding. The county's El Jebel Intersection project page, last updated Nov. 3, lists an April 1, 2026 start and a Nov. 25, 2026 completion date for the work at the East Valley Road and Highway 82 intersection. The work moves Valley Road so it passes the RFTA lot on its western and southern edges, reworks the layout of Sopris Village Boulevard, and enlarges the RFTA lot toward the north, the county says.
The county says the intersection work improves safety and operations by giving free-flow access to the existing signal, and that a new Colorado Department of Transportation access permit is necessary because current traffic volumes exceed what the current permit allows. All lanes and roads are now open and in their final project configuration, the county page says, with periodic lane closures under flaggers still possible until the project is complete. The work is directed by the Eagle County Engineering Department, performed by Gould Construction, Inc., and funded by Eagle County and RFTA.
A county resolution document for the same project describes periodic full closures of Sopris Village Drive, El Jebel Road and East Valley Road anticipated between April 1 and Oct. 30, 2026, for the safety of work crews and road equipment, with detours and advance notice to emergency services. That closure window has now passed, and the Dec. 14 hearing will take place in a corridor whose new road pattern is already in use.
