Source: http://arapahoegov.com/DocumentCenter/View/3944
Prosper is a massive housing development that will be built south of I-70 and Watkins Road. About 9,000 homes will be built on 8 square miles of land. It looks like this will be built outside the Aurora city limits because Aurora doesn't want to annex it because of the cost. Arapahoe County has already approved the above preliminary plan. (http://arapahoegov.com/index.aspx?NID=1456).
Initially the water supply will come from wells ("Initial phases of the Prosper development will rely on Denver Basin aquifer ground water.").
Aurora is very unhappy with this project for several reasons: 1) The water supply situation. Aurora wants to reserve well water for emergency and drought years, and that is why they built the Prairie Waters system. It seems unfair to allow Prosper to just pump non-renewable water out of the ground. 2) Transportation. This will put a huge burden on I-70, the to-be-built 6th Avenue and Jewell, and Aurora will have to pay some of the cost of expanding streets even if they don't annex this. 3) Arapahoe County is stepping on its "turf". Aurora doesn't really like the project (because of the cost and burden on water supply), and they don't like the developers doing an "end-run". Arapahoe County sees this as an economic engine.
There still is a lot of planning to do, some nothing will happen soon.
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Plans call for Prosper to have schools, a medical facility, a library, 30 miles of trails, a commercial main street, and 8 million square feet of commercial space among its 9,000 homes. Nearly a third of the development will be set aside as open space, Vogel said. Prosper could provide up to 25,000 jobs, mostly along the Interstate 70 corridor that will form its northern boundary, he said.http://www.denverpost.com/2015/03/07/new-wave-of-development-poised-to-roll-across-denvers-suburban-fringe/
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