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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A Yes Vote with a Warning: The Needles Rezoning Goes to Commissioners
The Planning Commission backed smaller lots off Highway 83, 6-3. One of the six asked where it stops.
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Vertex Consulting Files Its Rezonings With the Department It Came From
Craig Dossey ran El Paso County’s planning department and Nina Ruiz was his planning manager. Their firm has eight rezoning files open at the county, two of them before the Board on September 24.
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The Changing Politics of Northern El Paso County
Precinct returns show the Republican presidential margin in Monument and Palmer Lake, northern El Paso County, narrowed from R+44 in 2016 to R+26 in 2024.
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Monument Town Council, September 8, 2026: An E-Bike Ordinance Ordered, a Drive-Thru Sent Back, a Plan Nobody Could Find
Monument’s council ordered a draft e-bike and e-moto ordinance carrying a $250 fine for parents, sent a Jackson Creek Parkway drive-thru back over its driveways, and approved a shop building that the site’s own well had already shrunk.
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The Water Under the Palmer Divide
The water in the Arapahoe aquifer beneath Monument fell as rain around the end of the last ice age. The U.S. Geological Survey dated it: a median of about 24,000 years, against 2,000 years for the shallower Dawson and more than 30,000 for the Denver below it. Those three stacked sandstone layers remain a primary, […]
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Monument’s Draft 2040 Plan Is Out. Here Is How to Weigh In.
Monument published draft comprehensive and downtown plans on August 26. An open house runs noon to 4 p.m. on September 9, with a Planning Commission hearing that evening and council adoption set for October 5.
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Monument’s Target Has Its Permit. Construction Has Started.
A building permit for a 129,000-square-foot Target was issued in Monument on August 31st, and inspectors were on the site two days later.
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Monument Town Council, August 17, 2026: A Subdivision Denied, a Tax on the Ballot, a Fee Schedule Rewritten
Monument’s council rejected 205 homes beside the Air Force Academy, sent a construction-materials use tax to the November ballot, approved 354 apartments on Old Denver Road, and adopted a fee schedule that in places departs sharply from its own consultant’s advice.