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South Academy Station Metropolitan Districts
4 numbered metropolitan districts operate under the South Academy Station name — a common structure where one development is financed and governed through a series of districts. 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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South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 1
- Mailing address
- 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial 80122
- State district ID
- 65909
- Record updated
- December 2015
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South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 2
- Mailing address
- 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial 80122
- State district ID
- 65910
- Record updated
- December 2015
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South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 3
- Mailing address
- 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial 80122
- State district ID
- 65911
- Record updated
- December 2015
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South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 4
- Mailing address
- 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial 80122
- State district ID
- 65912
- 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.
What it levies
El Paso 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.
- South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 3 25.000 mills · 25.000 bond
- South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 2 0.000 mills
Levies here range from 0.000 to 25.000 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 $2,391 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.
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.
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:
- South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 1
- South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 2
- South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 3
- South Academy Station Metropolitan District No. 4
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.
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.