Agenda Date: 10/21/2025
Subject:
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Resolution 97-2025: Approving the 2026 Operating Plan and Budget for Aspen Grove Business Improvement District
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From: |
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager |
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Prepared by: |
Lucy Lucero, Executive Assistant |
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PURPOSE:
The Business Improvement District Act, Section 31-25-1201, et seq, C.R.S. requires that the Aspen Grove Business Improvement District submit an annual Operating Plan and Budget for the coming year for city council approval.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
The Business Improvement District Act (“Act”) requires that the District submit an annual operating plan and budget for the next fiscal year by September 30 of each year for approval by city council. The Aspen Grove Business Improvement District (“BID”) did not construct or acquire improvements during 2025. The BID’s activities in 2025 consisted of paying the debt service on the BID’s Limited Tax General Obligation Refunding Bond, Series 2018 (“2018 Bond”). The BID also oversaw the maintenance of the BID’s public improvements. No additional improvements are planned for 2026. In 2026, the BID’s focus will be to pay the debt service on the BID’s outstanding 2018 Bond and to maintain the public improvements the BID currently owns.
Aspen Grove GRF2 LLC, the owner of the Lifestyle Center, obtained approval of a Master Development Plan for the Lifestyle Center from the Littleton Planning Commission on July 25, 2022, pursuant to Title 10, Chapter 9, Section 10-9-5.7 of the Littleton City Code. The Master Development Plan provides for mixed use development of commercial and residential uses, consisting of up to four hundred and eighty-one (481) residential units with a maximum of sixty (60) dwelling units per acre. Because the BID cannot have any property classified for real property tax purposes as residential within its boundaries, it is anticipated that the owner or owners of any such property zoned residential will petition the City Council for exclusion of such parcel from the BID’s boundaries. It is not anticipated that any such zoning change will occur until early in 2027 and it is not known at this time exactly how many parcels of land within the BID will be affected. Any residential property excluded from the BID will remain subject to said property’s pro rata share of the BID’s outstanding general obligation debt as of the date the property is excluded.
BACKGROUND:
The Aspen Grove Business Improvement District (“BID”) was formed with City of Littleton Ordinance No. 24, Series 2000, adopted on August 15, 2000, pursuant to Section 31-25-1201, et seq, C.R.S. for the purpose of financing the public improvements and services needed for the Aspen Grove Lifestyle Center. The initial operating plan for the BID was provided for the BID to construct, install, and/or acquire street improvements, including bicycle paths, curbs, gutters, traffic safety control devices, sidewalks, pedestrian malls, streetlights, drainage facilities, water and sewer facilities, and landscaping of common areas. The Aspen Grove BID requires the BID to submit an annual operating plan and budget for the coming year for approval by city council. The BID budget and operating plan are separate from the City’s budget as per statute.
Prior Actions or Discussions
• October 15, 2024, the 2025 Operating Plan and Budget was approved by Resolution 109-2024
• October 17, 2023, the 2024 Operating Plan and Budget was approved by Resolution 109-2023
• October 18, 2022, the 2023 Operating Plan and Budget was approved by Resolution 63-2022
• October 19, 2021, the 2022 Operating Plan and Budget was approved by Resolution 45-2021
• October 20, 2020, the 2021 Operating Plan and Budget was approved by Resolution 70-2020
• October 15, 2019, the 2020 Operating Plan and Budget was approved by Resolution 54-2019
FISCAL IMPACTS:
N/A
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the resolution.
ALTERNATIVES:
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PROPOSED MOTION:
Proposed Motion
I move to approve Resolution 97-2025 approving the 2026 Operating Plan and Budget for the Aspen Grove Business Improvement District.