Plans are now near the agreement stage for the construction of a new golf course in Aurora, Colorado.
The project will be a part of a massive new master planned residential community seeing the construction of some 1,700 homes on a 900-acre site.
The selling point for the Prairie Point community is both its promised luxury, multi-story homes, as well as the advertised green and open spaces. But officials with the community, located at Parker Road and toll road E-470, have long wanted to also build an 18-hole golf course, despite some local opposition.
For years the City of Aurora has been trying to put a limitation on courses requiring vast amounts of water usage.
But now Mayor Mike Kaufman has reached an interim settlement with the Salt Lake City-based-Oakwood Homes, the developer of the community, that will allow the project to proceed, albeit with a decreased amount of water to be released by the city.
City officials and residents are hoping that the agreement will signal the end of an era of golf course development in Aurora. A headline in the Denver Post said the Aurora/Oakwood agreement “Could be the City’s Last.”
The agreement will see a reduction in the amount of water that will be released to irrigate the golf course, a reduction that Oakwood has said it can live with.
If all goes as planned, home construction in the Prairie Point community could begin this fall, with work on the golf course itself slated to launch sometime in the spring of 2023.
By Garry Boulard
