Title
A resolution approving a service plan for the Ridge at Sand Creek Metropolitan District.
Presenter:
Peter Wysocki, Director of Planning and Community Development
Carl Schueler, Comprehensive Planning Manager, Planning & Community Development
Body
Summary:
This service plan would allow for creation of the Ridge at Sand Creek Metropolitan District. This would be a small, approximately 19.26-acre metropolitan district serving a proposed small lot PUD residential development located north or Platte Avenue and west of Powers Boulevard. This district was originally proposed to be part of a consolidated service plan for the Sands Metropolitan Districts. However, in September of 2019 City Council denied an amended and restated service plan which would have allowed that option, based primarily on the distance separating this property from those districts.
There are no requested exceptions from the Special District Policy or the Model Service Plan. Covenant enforcement and common area maintenance services are requested to be authorized.
This item was introduced at a Council Work Session on November 25, 2019.
Background:
A plan to create a metropolitan district for this property in conjunction with an amended and restated service plan for the Sands Metropolitan Districts was denied by City Council on September 24, 2019. Most of the stated concerns at that hearing relating to the amount of separation between this property and the other districts that would have been part to that consolidated plan, and potential concerns with representation and accountability among physically separated districts.
This proposed service plan is essentially an exact duplicate of the originally submitted plan with the exception that it is now being proposed as a fully separate single metropolitan district. The mill levy caps, maximum debt service limit, submitted cost estimates, and authorized services are unchanged from the prior proposal.
This proposed metropol...
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