The Monument Independent card: the Monument Independent logo, with the mountain-and-pines emblem and the tagline Your Local Tri-Lakes News Source, above the line MONUMENT - PALMER LAKE - WOODMOOR and the headline Your Local Tri-Lakes News Source, over the words Independent reporting on the towns, schools, water and land of the Palmer Divide, and the topics GOVERNMENT, SCHOOLS, WATER, LAND USE.

Home Place Ranch was pitched to Monument as a quiet, low-maintenance community. The Monument Independent’s ongoing investigation examines who actually governs the neighborhood, what buyers were promised, and the conditions on the ground today. The full series is collected here.

The series so far

Part 3 — Drainage, Stormwater & Fire — is coming soon, and will be added here when it publishes.


All coverage (updates automatically)

Home Place Ranch: Who Runs the Ranch

Home Place Ranch has no independent homeowners association. Its covenants are written, and enforced, by companies that answer to the same builder. Second in a three-part examination of Home Place Ranch. Part 1: the promise versus what was built. Part 2: who controls the community. Part 3: drainage, stormwater and fire. Home Place Ranch is…

Not an HOA: The Government That Runs Much of Monument

Triview Metropolitan District plows the roads, pipes the water and mows the parks that many residents assume a homeowners’ association handles. It is something more consequential — a local government with the power to tax and borrow — and that difference explains why two neighbors in the same town can owe very different property taxes.…

Home Place Ranch: The Empty-Nest Promise

Home Place Ranch was pitched to Monument as an age-targeted community for buyers 55 and older — quieter, lower-traffic, low-maintenance. That pitch helped win a contested approval. It was never written into the law, and it isn’t what got built. First in a three-part examination of Home Place Ranch. Part 1: the promise versus what…