Aurora Places Plan

Source: https://www.auroragov.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_1881137/File/Business%20Services/Planning/Comprehensive%20Plan/Aurora%20Places%20Plan%20Adopted.pdf

This is a fascinating plan, showing future Aurora growth.  I'm interested in the section that is mostly yellow above.  The yellow shows housing, red commercial and green is open space. The boundaries are roughly Gun Club on the west, I-70 on the north, Imboden Road on the east (although portions go all the way east to Schumaker) and Quincy Road on the south.  This is an enormous area which is about 7 miles north/south and 7 miles east/west.

I took an existing map and drew on it to show the same area:

This is kind of embarrasing.  It might be fun for a kid to do.  Anyways, you can see that the major north/south arterials are Gun Club Road, Monaghan Road (in pink) and Watkins Road.  The major east/west arterials are Sixth Avenue and Jewell.

The major commercial zones are: the northwest corner of E-470 and I-70, south of Watkins, near Jewell and Gun Club, at the the intersection of Jewell and Monaghan, and the intersection of Watkins Road and Jewell.  Basically any place those arterials mentioned above meet.  I'm not sure about 6th and Monaghan, because Sky Ranch is planning on developing at least 3 of those corners.

Anyways, we are talking about a planning area of 49 square miles.  6 of those are off-limits because of the landfill, and another one in the far southeast corner  (off limits because of possible bombs).  That leaves 42 square miles.  Of those, I think 4 are fully developed.

I don't think this will ever happen.  Truthfully, I don't think Monaghan Road will ever be built.  The only segment that currently exists is between Colfax and 6th.  I think just focus on the area west of Powhatan and north of 6th Avenue.