Aurora residents who sued the city to stop an apartment complex near their gated golf course community have closed the case after reaching a deal with its developer.
The Garrett Cos., an Indiana-based builder of apartment complexes, intends to turn a vacant 15-acre lot at East Aurora Parkway and South Quemoy Way in southeast Aurora into Echelon at Eagle Bend. The complex would have 260 units inside a dozen buildings.
Just south of the proposed Echelon at Eagle Bend is the Heritage Eagle Bend subdivision, home to residents who signed a petition, testified before the Aurora Planning and Zoning Commission and, when those tactics failed, filed a lawsuit to stop the project. Sixteen residents sued Mayor Mike Coffman, the Aurora City Council, the planning commission and Garrett Cos. in Arapahoe County District Court on April 5. They asked a judge to overturn a unanimous vote by the city’s planning commission approving the project.
The complaint alleged that Echelon’s buildings will be 54 feet tall, or four feet higher than zoning allows; will not meet open-space requirements; will include a 16-foot-high retaining wall that exceeds a 14-foot limit; and won’t fit with the area’s “prairie style aesthetic.”“The settlement was purely monetary between the developer and the neighbors,” said Ryan Luby, a City of Aurora spokesman who doesn’t know how much cash changed hands.
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