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This document outlines the Crowsnest Planned Development (PD) Zoning Narrative for the City of Castle Pines, detailing a comprehensively planned, mixed-use master-planned community covering 794.5 acres. The plan integrates residential neighborhoods, commercial development, substantial open space, and regional trail connectivity. Key objectives include capturing economic growth, providing diverse housing and commercial services, ensuring coordinated infrastructure, preserving natural resources, enhancing recreation access, and generating ongoing revenue for citywide services. The development aims to align with the City's Comprehensive Plan by fostering community character, housing diversity, economic development, and efficient growth, with an estimated build-out period of 10 to 15 years.

The Crowsnest Planned Development establishes a cohesive, master-planned framework for a coordinated mix of residential, commercial, and open space uses within the City of Castle Pines. Key priorities include ensuring adequate open space, establishing Lemon Gulch as a central open space spine with an interconnected trail system, and promoting development that responds to natural landforms and environmental conditions. The plan also focuses on providing neighborhood employment and services, ensuring the adequacy of public facilities to accommodate growth, and promoting a compatible mix of housing types. This development is intended to occur in a phased and contiguous manner, with vested rights granted for a period of 20 years.

This document provides an overview of fiscal impact analyses for the proposed Crowsnest Annexation. It synthesizes findings from analyses conducted by City staff, TischlerBise, and THK Associates, all of which consistently project that the development will generate significantly more revenue than the cost of providing municipal services over a 20-year period. The analyses conclude that the proposed development is expected to produce positive long-term fiscal outcomes for the City, indicating a substantial net fiscal surplus.

This document outlines the City of Castle Pines' Strategic Plan, a dynamic guide reflecting City Council's policy direction and staff's efforts to achieve measurable results. It details five key strategic categories—maintaining roads, ensuring community safety, promoting financial health, managing development, and fostering business health—which are tracked via a community dashboard. The plan is structured around Key Focus Areas, Strategic Goals, and SMART Objectives to report overall progress towards community goals.

This PD Zoning Narrative outlines the Crowsnest Planned Development, a proposed 794.5-acre mixed-use master-planned community seeking annexation into the City of Castle Pines. The plan focuses on integrating diverse residential neighborhoods, commercial areas, significant open space, and regional trail connectivity. Key strategic elements include driving economic growth through increased tax revenues and job creation, providing varied housing options, developing neighborhood-serving commercial services, ensuring robust infrastructure development, preserving natural resources like the Lemon Gulch corridor, enhancing recreation access, and improving transportation networks. The development is projected to be completed over a 10-15 year timeframe.