Triview Metropolitan District’s board voted unanimously on Oct. 22 to share part of its sales tax with Costco for 12 years if the retailer completes a land purchase and wins the town’s approval to build in Monument. The district’s manager puts Costco’s share at about $15 million of the roughly $30 million the store is […]
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Colorado Pitches Colorado Springs for NASA’s Proposed Space Academy
Colorado will propose Colorado Springs as the home of the United States Space Academy, a civilian school that President Donald Trump has proposed and NASA would run. The state’s response, which must name a site, is due Nov. 16. Gov. Jared Polis announced the bid on Oct. 23 at America the Beautiful Park in Colorado […]
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Triview Considers an Incentive Agreement with Costco on Thursday
Update, Oct. 25, 2026: Triview’s board approved the agreement on Oct. 22. The follow-up, Triview Approves a 12-Year Sales-Tax Incentive for Costco, has the terms as the district’s manager described them. This preview is preserved as published. Triview Metropolitan District’s board takes up an economic development incentive agreement with Costco at a special meeting on […]
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If the City Says No, Try the County
Projects that failed to get into Colorado Springs, Monument or Palmer Lake keep reappearing before El Paso County, where the answer is nearly always yes. Voters in Colorado Springs and Palmer Lake have claimed a say over annexation. A bottling plant that, fully built out, could use as much water as the development Colorado Springs […]
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2B Asks Monument’s Builders to Pay the Rate Shoppers Already Do
Monument taxes construction materials at 2 percent, a lower rate than any of ten Front Range towns of similar size. Nine of those ten set that tax at the same rate as their sales tax. Ballot Issue 2B would raise Monument’s to 3.5 percent, put the town in the middle of the group, and send […]
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Laura Kronick Reads Every Line of the Budget. Now She Is Running for Mayor.
A retired Hewlett-Packard solution architect who served on the Monument Sanitation District board before joining the council, Laura Kronick has built her time in town government around reading the books line by line. As mayor, she says, she would bring the region’s water providers and outside experts together to find a renewable supply the town […]
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Monument Town Council, October 5, 2026: Parkway Bid Moved to December, Conexus Drainage Land Accepted
Monument’s council heard the draft 2027 budget and gave no formal direction on either question it posed, learned that the bid for the northbound lanes of Jackson Creek Parkway has moved from October to December, and accepted five drainage tracts from the Conexus development after staff said two of them may have been taken out […]
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Tri-Lakes Home Sales: August 2026
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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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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Monument’s 2040 Plan Gets More Time: A Hearing on October 14, a Council Vote on November 2
Monument has pushed back adoption of its comprehensive plan and downtown master plan by four weeks. The Planning Commission hearing continues October 14; the council vote is now November 2.