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CASTLE PINES NORTH —- This is not your typical Colorado city, surrounded by more than 15,000 acres of open space, You won’t see a Town Hall, not yet anyway. It hasn’t been built yet and the mailing address will remain Castle Rock for the time being. Castle Pines North became a city on November 6, 2007 the community has existed since the 1980’s.

The collection of planned housing developments in northern Douglas County becomes the first Colorado community to incorporate since Watkins in 2004. Making Castle Pines North the state’s 271st municipality, according to the Colorado Municipal League.
Voters among the 10,000 residents approved incorporation by nearly a 4-to-1 ratio.The reason Castle Pines North chose to incorporate was because its neighbor to the south, Castle Pines Village, wanted to incorporate and take the 65 businesses with it. There is no real “downtown.” But there is a golf course, 65 businesses in a shopping area off of Castle Pines Parkway exit on I-25, and more than 30 homeowners’ associations for subdivisions. The 9,500 residents of this Douglas County community 20 miles south of Denver — where the average house sells for more than half a million dollars — prize the area’s unhurried lifestyle. Castle Pines North has many options when looking for recreation.

Not only can residents get out and take advantage of the 13 miles of trails surrounding the community. Castle Pines North is an easy drive from downtown. Fifteen minutes away from the Denver Tech Center and major employers. Even minutes from Park Meadows Mall, and just five minutes form 140 stores of the Castle Rock Factor Shops, featuring Nike, Saks Fifth Avenue, Mikasa, Sony, Eddie Baurer and other leading retailers.

Newly elected leaders will have to draw up a budget, contract law enforcement and take care of other services that have been provided by the county. Those issues tend to deeply divide communities as they work through growing pains. But in the process, they gain local control of those issues, which was the driving force behind the election, said Maureen Shul, president of the Castle Pines North Master Association and leader of the push to incorporate. “All these many years, so many things have been dictated to us by the county,” she said. “There have been so many things going on around us by bigger communities that people didn’t feel like they had any control over.”

Castle Pines North will need a budget of up to $9.4 million a year to operate the city. That amount already is generated by taxes that go to the county or homeowners associations for services, proponents have said. The new city also will begin collecting sales taxes from 65 businesses along Castle Pines Parkway. From the county’s perspective, the loss of Castle Pines North to the tax roll is a wash, according to county spokeswoman Wendy Holmes. While the county receives $650,000 for law enforcement from taxes on the 3,300 homes in the community, Castle Pines North is expected to contract those services from the county until it begins its own police department. Six years after incorporation, Centennial continues to contract services from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Have a Home to Sell ?

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