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Superior Declares Across-the-Board Building Moratorium

SUPERIOR, CO-City officials clamp down on commercial and residential developers as they review the community's comprehensive growth plan, imposing a four-month building moratorium. Since 1990, Superior's population has jumped 2,156%, raising local concern about possible piecemeal developments.

By John Rebchook | Updated on October 30, 2000

SUPERIOR, CO- Colorado’s fastest-growing community in the past 10 years won’t be growing at all, at least not for the next four months.

Superior, a town along the US 36 corridor between Boulder and Denver, has had its population skyrocket 2,156% in the 1990s, going from 276 residents to 7,221. In 1990, the town had lacked running water until Denver-based MDC Holdings Inc., one of the largest public home building companies in the country, had started construction of the 8,000-home Rock Creek subdivision. The increased rooftops have brought big-box retailers and, more recently, high-tech office buildings.

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