Sixty-five Tri-Lakes homes changed hands in ordinary market sales in August, 26 fewer than in July, at a median price of $710,000, according to El Paso County Assessor records.
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Woodmoor Public Safety’s September: 83 Calls and 2,310 Property Checks
Woodmoor Public Safety logged 83 dispatches in September 2026, with 1,372 business checks and 938 vacation checks. Seven open doors were at one church.
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Five Acres at a Time: Sixty Years of Zoning in Black Forest
Most of Black Forest has lived under one rule for sixty years: a house for every five acres. The county spread it across the forest in 1965, residents wrote a plan around it in 1974, and for years, by its own account, the county followed the plan. The plan is gone now. The rule is […]
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The Palmer Lake Historical Society Turns 70
The Palmer Lake Historical Society was founded in 1956 to publish one town history. Seventy years on, it runs a museum. It celebrates on Oct. 15 in Palmer Lake.
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The Forecast Said High. The Map Logged Five Reports.
The Independent’s sound forecast gave the September 25 concert at the Ford Amphitheater its highest rating, a band in which past nights have drawn a median of twenty-four reports to the resident-run noise map. The map logged five, three of them the following day. The forecast has now misjudged three shows in a row, twice […]
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More than 31 Million Birds Have Crossed El Paso County This Fall
Radar estimates from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s BirdCast project put the number of birds that have flown over El Paso County since Aug. 1 at about 31.2 million, a fifth of them on one night in September. The usual peak has passed. About a fifth of the fall flight is still ahead, and most […]
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The Walker Road Rezoning Came Back with New Numbers and the Old Argument
Fifteen acres at Highway 83 and Walker Road are back before El Paso County, refiled seven weeks after the Board of County Commissioners turned them down. A denied application may only return if it is “substantially different in a material way,” and the applicant says this one is, because it asks for fewer homes. The […]
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Tri-Lakes Home Sales: July 2026
Ninety-one Tri-Lakes homes changed hands in ordinary market sales in July, at a median price of $720,000, according to El Paso County Assessor records.
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Needles Highway 83 Approved 3–1, on the Criterion That Denied Walker Road
El Paso County commissioners approved a rezoning on Highway 83 Thursday morning by a vote of 3–1, converting 47.55 acres from five-acre lots to two-and-a-half-acre lots. No one spoke in support. Four residents spoke against it. The commissioner who voted no reached his conclusion through the same criterion the Board used to deny the Walker […]
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At the Woodmoor Barn, Residents Press the County’s Code Consultant on Density and Rezonings
About 50 residents questioned the county’s code consultant at the Woodmoor Barn on buffers, rezonings, density and water. Comments close Oct. 16.