In the weeks before residents of the Colorado International Center Metro District #3 were to take control of their governing board in 2018, the developers who still ran it squeezed in just one more bit of business. METRO DISTRICTS: DEBT & DEMOCRACY A Denver Post investigation has found Colorado’s metro districts create billions in debt, leaving homeowners with soaring tax bills. Read more from the investigation here. Through a flurry of meetings, several of them held in corporate offices 18 miles from the district located southwest of the Gaylord Rockies Resort, the men behind CIC#3 approved the sale of more than $3.2 million in bonds.