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1/22/2020 Denver Post investigation into Colorado's metro districts reveals billions in debt paid by homeowners <br />Joe Amon, The Denver Post <br />Jacki Marsh, Mayor of Loveland, in her downtown shop Rabbask Designs, in <br />Loveland on Oct. 11, 2019. <br />In Windsor, a city of about 18,000 people in Weld and Larimer counties and <br />home to more metro districts than any other city of its size, officials see <br />metro districts as the only way to meet the needs of a growing community. <br />"If we had not accepted and worked with metro districts, we'd not be able <br />to develop as we have, and the land and amenities would be just too <br />expensive," said Kim Emil, Windsor's assistant city attorney. "Development <br />has been crazy." <br />Of the more than 3,000 special districts in Colorado today — there were <br />fewer than 1,300 of them a decade ago — better than half are metropolitan <br />districts, every one of them created by a developer, The Post found in a <br />review of public filings with the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. <br />"Almost every home that sold in the (Denver) metro area that's new <br />(construction) falls within a metro district," said Bruce Rau, Oakwood <br />Homes' president of land acquisition and the president of the Thompson <br />Crossing metro district. "There are very few that don't." <br />https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/05/metro-districts-debt-democracy-colorado-housing-development/ 31 5/19 <br />