A Right of Entry (ROE) form gives permission for trained personnel to enter specific areas of your property solely for the purpose of assessment, debris removal, and hazard‑mitigation work related to the 2025 flood.
Signing an ROE does not transfer ownership, does not create any ongoing obligation, and does not allow unrelated activities. It simply authorizes access so we can safely complete the work that protects homes, infrastructure, and the community.
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After analysis, legal review, and community participation, Upper Pine has determined that forming a Special Improvement District (SID) is no longer a viable or defensible option for organizing the local match for the Vallecito Creek recovery project. This decision is based on statutory requirements and project realities—not a lack of effort, Board or community support.
-What Changed
As the project advanced, several issues emerged that made the SID unworkable under Colorado law:
• Equity and benefit concerns — It became clear that not all parcels within the original boundary received a direct, measurable benefit from the NRCS work. That undermines the legal defensibility of any assessment.
• Timing and administrative risk —The SID pathway required a formal public election before any assessments could be approved or collected. That election process added a mandatory delay that could not be compressed or bypassed under Colorado law. When we overlaid that election timeline with NRCS’s construction schedule and match‑funding deadlines, it became clear the two could not be aligned. Moving forward with the SID would have pushed the project past NRCS’s required window, introducing significant risk of delaying—or even jeopardizing—federal funding.
• Direction from legal counsel and the Board — After reviewing the constraints, the District’s legal team advised that the SID was no longer a clean or defensible mechanism for this project.
-The Path Forward
Upper Pine is now focusing on a more precise and equitable approach that aligns with NRCS requirements and protects federal funding. This includes redrawing the impact area to the waterfront parcels that experienced direct physical damage and will receive direct, measurable benefit from the recovery work. It also includes aggressively pursuing additional state support and exploring in‑kind match options to reduce the local burden.