Safe, adequate and well-maintained infrastructure is essential to the city’s economic health and impacts every resident’s quality of life.

The Build Up Aurora Infrastructure Task Force(External link) has completed its work looking at long-term solutions for projects ranging from public safety and transportation to parks, libraries, recreation and accessibility. The effort included two years of public and stakeholder engagement to understand what community priorities.

The city's 10-Year Capital Improvement Master Plan identifies over $2 billion in capital needs. Projects within the plan have been prioritized based on project readiness, community feedback and other factors.

Following its April 28, 2026, meeting, the Build Up Aurora Infrastructure Task Force has made two recommendations currently being considered by the Aurora City Council:

• Prioritization of the 10-year Capital Improvement Master Plan to fund high-impact, ready and critical needs first, while planning future capital investments
• Referral of three ballot questions to the November 2026 ballot, which seeks authorization for the city to increase the sales and use tax rates and issue bonds.

The findings of the task force and these recommendations were initially presented to the Aurora City Council at the May 9, 2026, council spring workshop where the council agreed to move the recommendations forward for consideration at the May 18 study session, with a first reading at the June 8 regular meeting and a final reading at the June 22 regular meeting.