Aurora approves Prairie Point water tank and pump station; permits pending
The six-member commission approved the roughly 2.3-acre Aurora Water project for planned surrounding development, but technical issues must be resolved before recordation or building permits.
Aurora’s Planning and Zoning Commission on July 15 unanimously approved a conditional use and site plan for a water tank and pump station planned to serve development around Prairie Point. The project cannot be recorded or receive building permits until technical issues are resolved.
The Zone 5 tank and Zone 7 pump station would occupy about 2.3 acres southwest of South Ireland Way and E-470, within the Prairie Point master plan area. The meeting record shows all six commissioners voted in favor.
Staff classified the facility as a minor utility in the R1 low-density single-family residential district; the zoning designation was corrected from R2 during the meeting. The site is next to planned single-family lots, staff said. The record does not quantify the homes or water demand the project would serve, identify a development phase driving it, or itemize the outstanding technical issues.
The plan includes an underground pump, landscaping around the tank and a stained stone-pattern exterior. Staff said the pump’s noise should be comparable to road noise or residential air-conditioning equipment. Aurora Water would maintain landscaping inside the site, while the master developer would maintain curbside landscaping.
The project is part of Aurora’s broader water-system expansion, but the available records do not identify it as a project in the city’s recommended capital plan. Aurora Water’s 2024 Integrated Water Master Plan describes a 20-year capital-improvement program, including pump-station upgrades and more than 70 miles of new transmission pipelines, as the city prepares for growth.
The approval is conditional: recordation, building permits and construction remain future steps, and the public record does not set a date for any of them.