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Speakers point to 2022 sales tax extension, $350 million fund and a Castle Rock-area land purchase to preserve open space
Summary
At a Douglas County meeting, speakers said a 2022 voter-approved sales tax extension will provide about $350 million over 15 years for parks, open space and community projects.
Speakers at a Douglas County meeting said that voters in 2022 approved a locally assessed sales tax extension that will provide roughly $350,000,000 over the next 15 years for community investments in parks, open space and related needs. "It's gonna give us a monetary lifeline of $350,000,000 over the next 15 years to invest in the community," Speaker 3 said.
Speakers framed that funding as supporting land and habitat protection. Speaker 1 said "nearly 1 third of the county is preserved as national forest, state parks, local parks, trails, and open space," and noted the strategy for investing the funds would be guided by citizen input and public-private partnerships.
Speakers also raised recreation infrastructure needs. "Douglas County has over 7 middle school soccer teams, and you cannot find a field," Speaker 4 said, arguing the county lacks enough baseball and softball fields. Speaker 3 described a purchase, in partnership with the town of Castle Rock, that preserves a "lost canyon" and likened it to "a national park right here in the middle of the county."
The transcript records these remarks as discussion and description; it does not record a formal vote or specific project allocations from the sales tax fund in this meeting.
