When this article was published on August 13, 2026, it described TriLakes Growth as indexing El Paso County’s development review filings for the Tri-Lakes region. A defect in the tracker meant that was not fully true, and the article did not disclose it.
The tracker decides whether a county filing belongs to the region by testing the location string for a Tri-Lakes ZIP code and, when there is none, by testing the parcel’s map coordinates against a set of boundary boxes. Those boxes did not meet. A gap sat over the Highway 83 corridor north of Black Forest, and any filing whose parcel fell in it was classified as out of area and discarded without being stored, so nothing recorded that a decision had been made and every subsequent daily run repeated it.
Eight active county files were affected: both Monument Academy infrastructure rezoning applications (P2611, seeking RS-5000, and P2612, seeking RM-12), the Monument Academy site development plan addition (PPR2621), Iron Ridge Final Plat Filing No. 2 (SF2612), Mariah Trail Filing No. 1 (PAV262), High Forest Estates Filing No. 1 (SF2512), Willow Springs Estates Filing No. 2 (VR264) and the Highview Drive right-of-way vacation (VR266). A reader searching the tracker for any of them on the day this article ran would have found nothing.
All eight have been restored. The boundary has been corrected and is now covered by an automated test. The tracker also now logs every record it excludes, so a future gap of this kind surfaces within a day rather than going unnoticed for a month.
The article’s figures, which were accurate when published, have also been refreshed to September 10, 2026, and a dated note recording both changes has been added to the article.
The defect was found because a reader sent in the two Monument Academy file numbers and asked why they were not on the site.
