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. […]