Metro districts → Gateway
Gateway Metropolitan Districts
2 numbered metropolitan districts operate under the Gateway name — a common structure where one development is financed and governed through a series of districts. Our plat matching places them in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, El Paso, Gunnison, Jefferson, La Plata, Larimer, Logan, Mesa, Morgan, Pitkin, Summit, Weld County. A metro district is not an HOA: it's a local government with taxing power, and a property can sit inside both.
What this means if you own or are buying here
Metropolitan districts are special districts formed under Colorado law to finance and maintain a development's public infrastructure — streets, water and sewer lines, parks, drainage. Unlike an association, a district is a unit of local government: it is governed by an elected board, holds public meetings, issues bonds, and levies a mill levy on your property tax bill rather than dues it invoices you for.
Practical consequences worth knowing before a closing:
- It shows up on the tax bill, not in dues. The district's mill levy is collected with your property taxes, so it can be easy to miss when budgeting for a home.
- The debt outlives the builder. Districts commonly issue bonds to build infrastructure up front and repay them from that levy over decades.
- You can be in a district AND an HOA. They are separate bodies with separate rules, separate money, and separate contacts — being in one tells you nothing about the other.
- The board is elected and the meetings are public. As a property owner inside the district you can attend, run, and vote.
This page is a public-records summary, not legal or tax advice. For the district's own budget, levy, and meeting notices, use its website below or the state's guide for residents and prospective homeowners.
The 2 districts on file
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Gateway Metropolitan District
- Mailing address
- PO Box 645, Basalt 81621
- Phone
- (970) 925-3771 last checked
- Website
- www.gatewayofsnowmass.com
- State district ID
- 65151
- Record updated
- June 2026
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Gateway Regional Metropolitan District
- Mailing address
- 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood 80228-1898
- Website
- www.colorado.govgateway
- State district ID
- 16029
- Record updated
- December 2015
Source: Colorado Department of Local Affairs district registry, published by the Governor's Office of Information Technology and pulled 2026-08-07. Mailing addresses are frequently the district's management or law firm rather than an office in the neighborhood. Phone numbers are not in the state registry — each one above is the number that district publishes on its own website, collected 2026-08-07 and shown with that site linked beside it.
What it levies
Districts in this name group sit in different counties — each is its own government, certified by its own county assessor for tax year 2025, named beside each figure below. A mill is one dollar per $1,000 of assessed value — not market value — and it is collected with your property taxes rather than billed as dues.
Where part of a figure is marked bond, that share repays construction debt the district issued — it is debt service on certified filings, not operations, and it ends when the bonds are paid off.
- Gateway Metropolitan District 28.716 mills · Pitkin · 5.976 bond
- Gateway Regional Metropolitan District 15.400 mills · Denver · 1.790 bond
Levies here range from 15.400 to 28.716 mills depending on which district covers the property. These do not add up — a parcel sits inside one of them, not all of them. Your tax notice names the one that applies to you.
In dollars: these districts were together certified to collect $518,744 for bond repayment in 2025 — debt service on money already borrowed to build here. (Unlike mills, dollars add: each district collects its own.)
2-year history, Gateway Metropolitan District (the highest here — certified in Pitkin):
- 202429.018
- 202528.716
Source: each county's annual certification, compiled statewide by the Division of Property Taxation and published on the state's open geodata service, collected 2026-08-08. Certified annually under C.R.S. §39-1-111. We report the levy as certified and don't calculate anyone's bill — that depends on your property's assessed value and the assessment rate in force, both of which change. Your county assessor or treasurer can give you a figure for your address.
Watch this district. Levies are re-certified every December. Leave an email and we'll send one plain message a year — only if a levy here changes, with the old number, the new one, and the bond share. No newsletter, nothing else.
Neighborhoods this district serves
Platted subdivisions whose recorded name matches this district, from the county parcel records behind our address lookup:
- Gateway — Arapahoe County
- Gateway — El Paso County
- Gateway — Jefferson County
- Gateway — Morgan County
- Gateway — Logan County (similar name — verify)
- Gateway Aspen Lot Split — Pitkin County (similar name — verify)
- Gateway Building 1 Condominiums — Boulder County (similar name — verify)
- Gateway Building 1 Condos — Boulder County (similar name — verify)
- Gateway Building 2 Condominiums — Boulder County (similar name — verify)
- Gateway Building 3 Condominiums — Boulder County (similar name — verify)
- Gateway Building 4 Condominiums — Boulder County (similar name — verify)
- Gateway Building 5 Condominiums — Boulder County (similar name — verify)
Name-matched from public plat records, not a legal boundary determination. District boundaries in the state's data are digitized approximations — confirm with the district itself before relying on this for a transaction.
Associations in the same neighborhoods
These registered homeowners associations cover ground that overlaps this district — properties here may answer to both:
- Gateway Park Townhomes Homeowners' Association — 111 units , managed by Advance HOA Management
- Gateway Park Homeowners Association — 102 units , managed by Hammersmith
- Gateway Park Residential Community Association — 64 units , managed by Hammersmith
- Gateway Centre Owners Association, Inc. — 17 units
- Gateway Townhome Association Inc — 32 units , managed by Avenue One Properties
- Gateway Village Homeowner Association — 1,093 units , managed by Altitude Community Law
- Gateway Condominiums Homeowners Association — 18 units
- Gateway Station Condominium Owners Association — 40 units , managed by MSI, LLC
Buying or selling in this district
A metro district doesn't issue the status letter an HOA must furnish at closing — but if an association also covers the property, that 14-day statutory clock still applies to it. Not sure which bodies govern a specific address? Run the address — the lookup reports both associations and districts from county plat records.