Design Review Committee (DRC)

This committee is provided for explicitly within the neighborhood's Design Guidelines (pdf), and is chartered with reviewing and approving or rejecting all improvements that any of our residents proposes to make to their house exterior or lot in Arapahoe Ridge. The committee's purpose is to help us all to "preserve and maintain the design character, the value, and the desirability and attractiveness of Arapahoe Ridge."

Below you will find all sorts of information intended to help you in planning your house and lot improvements and in getting your plans approved by the DRC.

If the site does not answer all your questions, please contact the committee chair, currently Theresa Grondin, at drc@arhoa.org or 303-926-0811. NOTE: All improvement requests must be submitted directly to the management company (see below for specifics). Please do NOT submit any official requests to the DRC.

Requirements for a Complete Design & Improvement Request

Save yourself time and trouble: read this first!

Paint Requests

When painting your house differently than its current color scheme, please submit a completed design request form, photos of your house, photos of your neighbors’ houses, and photos of the house across the street from your house. Please read and follow the Arapahoe Ridge Paint Guidelines, Tips and Palettes, before submitting your request.
You must receive approval from the DRC before you paint.

Non-Paint Requests

According to the Arapahoe Ridge Design Guidelines (pdf), each Design & Improvement request must include a completed design request form, a plot plan, architectural drawings and elevations. Painting requests are an exception to this rule (see above item). Plot plans cannot be drawings; they must be the official plot plan that can be obtained from the Town of Erie.

Get It Right the First Time

To avoid request rejection and loss of time, please see the web page, DRC General Guidelines, before submitting your request. On that page you'll find easy-to-read summaries extracted from the official Arapahoe Ridge Design Guidelines (pdf).

More Information and Assistance

For further information and assistance, you may wish to consult the Arapahoe Ridge Covenants, Bylaws and other Governing Documents. You may also wish to contact a DRC representative. To find the correct one, please refer to the DRC Representative Area Map (pdf).

Filling Out the Request Form

As of June of 2009, you may expedite the request and review process by filling out the design request form completely online! If you prefer to print and mail the completed request, please download this request form (pdf). You may fill out the form and print it, or you may print it first and fill it out by hand.

Submitting Requests

All requests must be submitted either through the online process OR directly to the management company at the address provided below. Please do NOT submit any official requests to the DRC

Arapahoe Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc.
c/o MSI, LLC
Attn: Judi England
390 Interlocken Crescent #500
Broomfield, CO 80021

What To Expect

You may expect the DRC to consider your request within 30 days of receiving it. They will contact you with their approval or rejection.
Please be sure you do not begin work on your improvement until you have received DRC approval.