The first neighborhood in the Dawson Trails development received approval from the Castle Rock Town Council to include more than 200 single family homes and nearly 15 acres of open space.

The town council on Jan. 7 unanimously approved a site development plan for the first homes in the Dawson Trails development off I-25 and Crystal Valley Interchange, south of the planned Costco on the future Dawson Trails Boulevard.

The neighborhood will include 229 single family homes, 14.9 acres of open space and amenities such as a park and paved and unpaved trails.

The neighborhood is one part of the larger Dawson Trails plan approved in 2022 that lays out more than 5,800 housing units, around 750 acres of open space and 3.2 million square feet of commercial development, retail, industrial and office space.

Council member Tim Dietz said he was happy to see that the Dawson Trails development will be built more appropriately for the town, as compared to a past plan for the property. Previous zoning for the Dawson Trails development would have allowed up to 7,900 housing units and 17.5 million square feet of commercial space.

“This could have been 8,000 homes by now if it would have worked 40 years ago, so this is a much better plan,” Dietz said.

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By McKenna Harford