The Beginnings of Highlands Ranch - 06/07/09 08:33 PM
From 1937 to 1976 the land on which Highlands Ranch now sits was a large ranch owned by Lawrence Phipps, Jr.  In 1979 it was purchased by Mission Viejo Company.  Mission Viejo filed a plan with Douglas County call the Highlands Ranch Development Plan.  It called for a broad range of housing types and sizes.  The plan called for 61% of the land to be devoted to non-urban uses like open space and recreation, 31% for residential and 8% to business. 
The first homes were built in 1981 and in September 1981 the first residents moved in.  In 1997, J. F. … (1 comments)

Libraries That Meet Your Needs! - 06/02/09 09:00 PM
Recently we Highlands Ranch and Douglas County received our Spring/Summer issue of “Access, The Magazine for Douglas County Libraries.”  While browsing its contents I found these pieces of information about our wonderful Douglas County Libraries. 
In 2008:
178,867 people attended library programs and events.
7,126,027 items were checked out.
There were 1,868,010 visits to Douglas County Libraries.
There were 721,267 items in their collection.
There were 500,000 visits to douglascountylibraries.org and over 4 million pages were viewed.
351,172 reference questions were answered.
There 173,660 library patrons, 24.905 of them new.
22,308 adults, teens and children signed up for reading programs.
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