It’s official. Residents of Castle Pines North will vote on incorporation later this year after a Douglas County judge gave the unincorporated planned communy of 10,000 residents the go-ahead this morning.
An election committee made up of nine Castle Pines North residents will meet in the next weeks to set a date for the election, said Maureen Shul, president of the Castle Pines North Master Association.
“It’s been a long haul to get to this point, but now this is behind us, we’ll set our sights on the next hurdle,” she said.
Meanwhile, neighboring Castle Pines Village must reapply for incorporation, after Judge Vincent White approved a tax-sharing agreement between the two communities vying to be Douglas County’s fifth municipality.
The race to incorporate began last fall when Castle Pines Village announced its plan to incorporate, taking with it the tax revenue from 65 stores that the two communities share along Castle Pines Parkway.
Last month leaders in both communities hammered out a revenue-sharing deal, in which Castle Pines North will get most of the revenue but will provide all the municipal services if incorporation passes.
If the measures passes in either of the communities, fast-growing Douglas County would get its first new city or town since Lone Tree incorporated in 1995.
The county’s other municipalities are Parker, which incorporated in 1981, Larkspur, which re-formed as a town in 1979, and county seat Castle Rock, a municipality since 1881, according to the Colorado State Archives.
Staff writer Joey Bunch can be reached at 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com.
