The Highlands Ranch Back Country (new residential building development)

The Highlands Ranch Back Country (new residential building development)
 
One thing that quite often surprises me is how small properties have gotten. Builders are squeezing bigger houses onto smaller lots at the price of partially non-existing backyards and short driveways. Marketing often tries to tell us that most people prefer less outside yard due to the work associated with maintaining a yard. While that might be true in some cases in general consumers do not have much choice - no matter if they would like to have a bigger yard or not. Builders keep building houses onto small lots to be able to squeeze in a few more houses into an area that compared to 1990 holds many more houses in the end and therefore means increased profits.
 
The latest and one of the last new developments in Highlands Ranch is called Back Country. It is located next to Wildcat Reserve Parkway near the Broadway intersection. To the West the Weatherstone sub division limits growth and to the east the Mountain Vista School gives border to the new back country. The Back Country is an exclusive community within the community and will have private open space and their own recreation city. Consumers targeted are of high income because house prices and monthly maintenance lock out many average families.
 
The one thing that not just stuns me, but many others I talk to is the fact how close these houses are build to each other. Spending $600,000 and much more on houses in such an exclusive neighborhood does not buy you privacy. In fact, these houses seem to be closer to each other than houses in many other areas of Highlands Ranch (excluding Firelight). The backyards are small, very small as well (at least whatever is visible from the street). This is my personal opinion, but if I am going to spend that much money on a house I would expect a little more. As nice as the houses look like and as nice the amenities will be, the missing space and therefore missing privacy between the houses and the small backyards just make it not worth to even consider looking at a house in the Highlands Ranch Back Country development. Who wants to open a window and touch his neighbors house right away?

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