As another large housing project in Erie slowly makes its way through the approvals process, the former coal-mining community with little more than 1,000 residents in 1990 could see its population swell to near 40,000 in the next 20 years.
On Tuesday, elected leaders for the town on the border of Boulder and Weld counties will decide whether to pave the way for a development that could bring up to 2,152 more homes to the northeast part of Erie.
The Board of Trustees will consider the eligibility of an annexation petition from Community Development Group, a Boulder-based developer that wants to build the Summerfield neighborhood on a 632-acre parcel at the southwest corner of Colorado 52 and Weld County Road 7.
Community Development Group is also behind the even bigger Bridgewater project, just a couple of miles to the west, where nearly 2,900 units housing more than 8,000 residents could break ground later this year.
Erie has 20,000 residents.
“We are the path of progress,” Erie Mayor Joe Wilson said Monday.
Besides Bridgewater and Summerfield, Erie has three other significant residential projects on the drawing boards that would add another 1,800 homes — and a projected 5,000 residents — over the next decade or so. (Boulder) Daily Camera
