By Breeanna Jent | Colorado Politics (via Gazette.com)
Years after it was first presented to Colorado Springs, the City Council on Tuesday is expected to vote on a massive annexation request that envisions growing city boundaries by 3,200 acres.
La Plata Communities, one of the Pikes Peak region’s largest real estate development companies, will ask the council to annex the land southeast of Colorado Springs and approve plans to build up to 9,500 single- and multi-family homes in a proposed master-planned community called Amara. Development plans also call for building 2 million square feet of commercial space, schools, public safety facilities, parks and open space.
The land is currently located in unincorporated El Paso County, surrounded on three sides by the neighboring city of Fountain.