Bobcat Ridge was designed for this town, with this town. Bringing it to life takes one more thing: a working partnership with the Town of Nederland.
To the Board of Trustees and the people of Nederland —
For more than a decade, Mountain Housing Assistance has worked alongside this community on a single question: where will the people who teach in our schools, cook in our kitchens, plow our roads, and care for our neighbors actually live? Bobcat Ridge is our answer — eighty homes across every income band, a community education center, and a preserved forest and a new pedestrian path, all on eighteen acres at the edge of town.
We are not asking the Town to build it, fund it, or carry its risk. We are asking for partnership — the shared work that only a town and a housing organization can do together.
The Board of Trustees holds the authority to annex the Bobcat Ridge property under Colorado's municipal annexation statute. Annexation is the gateway that lets the project connect to town services and proceed through entitlement.
Zoning, platting, and design resolved as part of the annexation proceeding itself — one fair, rigorous, public review in which the Town shapes the entitlement and the boundary together, building on the years of engagement and study already on file.
With Eldora now part of the town's future, the workforce-housing question is no longer hypothetical. We are asking the Town to treat Bobcat Ridge as part of the answer it is already looking for.
Deeply affordable, workforce, and attainable for-sale homes — durably structured to stay affordable, not to quietly expire.
Space for early-childhood and outdoor education, community events, and public and medical services — a civic asset for the whole town.
A preserved old-growth conservation forest — proposed for conveyance to the Town of Nederland for one dollar, and a new multi-use pedestrian path along Eldora Road — separately conveyed to the Town for one dollar — that connects the community to downtown and the schools.
We do this work slowly, deliberately, and in public, because that is the only way it lasts. We welcome the Town's questions, its scrutiny, and its review. And we would be honored to build something with you that this community keeps for generations.
With respect and gratitude,
Michael David Ackerman
Director of Development
Mountain Housing Assistance
A vibrant, healthy mountain community cannot exist without the people who teach in our schools, work in our restaurants, provide our public services, and care for our town. The premise of everything we build
Trustees, staff, and residents are all welcome to reach out. We'll bring the studies, the plans, and the full project record to the table.