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 | The Triview Metropolitan District provides water, sewer, and street
construction and maintenance services to Jackson Creek. |
| The Triview Metro Board of Directors consists of the following:
 | Jim Perry |
| John Riesberg |
| Gary Walters |
| Kathy Walters (Pres.) |
| Bud Weiss |
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| The District is managed by Ron Simpson (488-6868,
FAX 488-6565). |
| The District currently has about $12M in outstanding
bonds. The bonds are at about 12% interest. Now that the number of occupied
houses is approaching 300, Ron Simpson has stated that the bonds could be
refinanced at a lower rate (perhaps 7%) thereby lowering the debt service
and improving the Districts financial health. |
| The Triview District has decided to provide services to Wal-Mart.
| Many in the Town
of Monument were under the impression that the Triview District would not supply services to the
development unless the parcel was annexed to the Town. |
| Goldberg
Properties seemed to be under the same impression since they spent
several months trying to work out a way to obtain service from the
Donala District that serves Gleneagle. Due to the distances involved, it
would have cost several million dollars to connect to the Donala system.
There may also have been some difficulty in obtaining easements needed
for the connections. Problems obtaining utility service seem to have
held up the Wal-Mart project for many months. |
| Recently, the Triview District
reappeared as the supplier. Their current position is that there was
never any understanding with the Town and there is no reason that they
cannot supply service to the parcel. |
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| April 26, 2001: At the Triview
Metro District Board meeting:
| If the County Commissioners approve the Wal-Mart
project, Triview is considering creating a Public Improvement
(non-profit) Corporation (PIC). The PIC would receive 3% sales tax from
the Wal-Mart store. The Triview Board is currently thinking that the PIC could
take on responsibility for funding a variety of infrastructure tasks
including changes to Baptist Road and development of Jackson Creek
Parkway from Highway 105 south to Struthers Ranch.
The infrastructure improvements being considered by the Triview Board would open up to development the commercial areas of the Regency Park Development/Zoning Plan
east of I-25. Other development groups are seeking ways to extend
Jackson Creek Parkway south to connect to Powers Blvd. |
| It was announced that the Carriages
at Jackson Creek builder has
decided to abandon the PRD-10 rezoning request and build single family houses
instead of multi-family. This resulted in a net reduction of two
units. Due to the increased price for single family houses compared to
multi-family units, the profit
to the developer is expected to be about the same. |
| The current Jackson Creek Middle School
design calls for 64 irrigation stations for the playing fields and
landscaping. 18 acres of Kentucky Blue Grass are planned. This type of
lawn is very water intensive. It requires about 36" of water per
year. The school is projected to use 90,000 gallons of water per day. If
the Triview District can get permission from the County Health
Department, they plan to bring treated water from the sewage treatment
plant to the school site for irrigation. |
| Current Jackson Creek water consumption
per house averages about .6 acre-feet (196,111 gallons) per year or
537 gallons per day. For comparison, the Woodman Hills development in
Falcon uses about .3 acre-feet per year per house. The very high rate of
consumption in Jackson Creek may be partially explained by the number of
new lawns being started and inclusion of the Texaco car wash water
consumption in the total. Although consumption figures for the car wash
were not disclosed, at a Monument meeting about a year ago, it was
reported that the Conoco car wash uses about 500,000 gallons per
month. |
| Due to the terrain and mouse habitat, a
$29K sewage lift station was to be used for the Middle School; however,
a horizontal drilling technique has been used to create a gravity sewer
with about a 1% slope. Unfortunately, there are currently two sags in
the alignment of the pipe which must be corrected by the contractor,
Corecon. Since the lift station was ordered and partially completed, the
termination cost would be about $14.5K.The Triview District will
determine whether to pay the termination cost or take delivery and try
to find another use for the lift station. |
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