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Special Districts
The attorneys of Dufford & Brown have extensive and broad-based experience in many areas of law influencing and governing local government entities for both new and existing developments and communities. We provide a full range of legal services for routine and complex land-use, development approvals, transactions and issues. For nearly 50 years, our attorneys have been providing strategic advice to governmental entities, developers, property owners, communities, and others on the various types of public entities utilized in development, financing, public improvements and construction throughout Colorado. The breadth of our experience allows us to provide cost-effective, innovative solutions with comprehensive detail to our representation of diverse clients for all of their governmental and land-use issues.
Colorado Title 32 special districts are commonly used for tax-exempt financing by landowners and residents for the public infrastructure needs of a development or a community. special districts and metropolitan districts can fund and operate a wide range of public improvements including water, sanitary sewer, drainage, streets and roadways, transportation, safety protection, landscaping, parks and recreational facilities, television relay, covenant enforcement, and ambulance or fire protection. Often, municipalities and counties are limited by law and other factors as to the services they may provide. Therefore, special districts are formed to provide necessary public services that the municipality or county cannot otherwise provide. The attorneys at Dufford & Brown have helped our clients organize, construct, finance and dedicate or operate public facilities and improvements for many special districts on both undeveloped and developed land throughout Colorado.
The scope of our services with respect to special districts includes, but is not limited to:
- Special district formation, consolidation, dissolution and ongoing operations
- Public financing, tax issues and subsidy arrangements
- Public-private partnerships, special district, and homeowners associations
- Intergovernmental agreement negotiation and implementation
- Easements, licenses and rights of way
- Eminent domain
- Water rights and litigation
- Lease and purchase agreements
- Dispute resolution, administrative hearings, and litigation
- Planning, zoning, annexation and real estate development agreements
- Development agreements and vested rights agreements for land, water rights, mineral rights and surface use agreements
- Redevelopment and urban renewal projects
- Large-scale and long term planned developments
- Residential, commercial, mixed-use and industrial projects
Our special district and land-use attorneys have long-standing relationships with regional officials, planning commissioners, appraisers, realtors, home builder associations, and municipal governments. These relationships and successful working relationships ensure prompt, expedited and thorough representation of your legal matters for both large and small development projects and communities.
Our special district and land-use team represents landowners, developers, and special district entities when they appear before planning commissions and municipal boards on applications for annexation, rezoning, planned developments, subdivision approvals and service plan, inclusion and intergovernmental agreements. We focus on businesses and development projects from small jurisdictions to major developments. In addition, the firm has experience preparing and enforcing covenants for property owners' associations, residential and commercial developments, all types of construction projects and special district architectural review and design committees.
Our clients include large corporations, federal, state and local companies, landowners, property owners, developers, brokers, title and insurance companies, banks and financial institutions as well as individuals.
Special districts have enabled a high quality of development and have enabled stable and increasing property values within a variety of developments throughout Colorado and the attorneys at Dufford & Brown have been instrumental to many of those communities and developments' success. We encourage you to contact our special district team for your development and community needs and issues.
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