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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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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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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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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Promontory Pointe and Sanctuary Pointe Vote on Dissolving Their Metro Districts
Mail ballots on dissolving Triview Metropolitan Districts No. 2 and No. 4 were due Sept. 1. The count is Sept. 10. The $6.4 million in road bonds stays until 2048.
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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 […]
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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. […]