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Severance Shores Metropolitan Districts
4 numbered metropolitan districts operate under the Severance Shores name — a common structure where one development is financed and governed through a series of districts. Our plat matching places them in 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 4 districts on file
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Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 2
- Mailing address
- 8200 S. Quebec Street, Suite A3 - 305, Centennial 80112
- After-hours line
- (970) 875-7047 the only number published on their site · last checked
- Website
- ssmd.specialdistrict.org
- State district ID
- 66628
- Record updated
- August 2022
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Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 3
- Mailing address
- 8200 S. Quebec Street, Suite A3 - 305, Centennial 80112
- After-hours line
- (970) 875-7047 the only number published on their site · last checked
- Website
- ssmd.specialdistrict.org
- State district ID
- 66629
- Record updated
- August 2022
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Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 4
- Mailing address
- 8200 S. Quebec Street, Suite A3 - 305, Centennial 80112
- After-hours line
- (970) 875-7047 the only number published on their site · last checked
- Website
- ssmd.specialdistrict.org
- State district ID
- 66630
- Record updated
- August 2022
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Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 1
- Mailing address
- 8200 S. Quebec Street, Suite A3 - 305, Centennial 80112
- After-hours line
- (970) 875-7047 the only number published on their site · last checked
- Website
- ssmd.specialdistrict.org
- State district ID
- 66627
- Record updated
- August 2022
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
Weld County certified these districts' mill levies for tax year 2025. 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.
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 3 74.742 mills · 63.182 bond
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 4 74.253 mills · 62.489 bond
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 2 74.187 mills · 62.477 bond
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 1 11.766 mills
For scale: the highest levy here is more than 88% of Colorado's 1,682 levying metropolitan districts charge.
Levies here range from 11.766 to 74.742 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 $609,882 for bond repayment in 2025 — debt service on money already borrowed to build here. (Unlike mills, dollars add: each district collects its own.) The outstanding principal behind that payment is in the audited filings below.
3-year history, Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 3 (the highest in this family):
- 202375.818
- 202475.818
- 202574.742
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. Years before 2024 come from Weld County certified mill levies, 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.
The records this district publishes
Colorado special districts are required to make their governance and finances public. These are the pages these districts publish on their own sites — we link them, we don't reproduce them, so what you open is always the district's current version:
Found by reading each district's own navigation, not by guessing addresses. Districts that publish nothing findable are simply absent here rather than shown with dead links. For the mill levy specifically, see "What it levies" above — reported from the certifications themselves; we never lift financial figures from a district's own budget PDFs.
Financial filings at the State Auditor
Every Colorado local government files annual financial statements with the Office of the State Auditor — audited statements, or an audit-exemption application for small budgets. This is where the authoritative outstanding-debt figures live. Each link below is that district's own filings page, year by year, with the PDFs:
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 2
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 3
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 4
- Severance Shores Metropolitan District No. 1
Source: Office of the State Auditor Local Government Portal, matched by district name 2026-08-08 — we link the state's filing record and never restate figures from audit PDFs. Found a mismatch? Tell us.
Neighborhoods this district serves
Platted subdivisions whose recorded name matches this district, from the county parcel records behind our address lookup:
- Severance Shores — Weld County
- Severance — Weld 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.
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.