In the late 70's we lived in a small home in a community in the mountains west of Denver, it was during the last portion of Jimmy Carter's presidency when he had reduced the speed limit on the freeways to 55 mph and his statement to the press was, "that you could drive a great deal slower than 55". Anyway it was already taking over an hour to get home where before the 55 law it only took a half hour. At that time we were starting to learn about prepping and the loss of personal freedom, we were seeing disturbing changes in the area we lived in and decided it was time to get out of Colorado, then out of Pampa, Texas and that's how we ended up near a small logging town in S.W. Oregon. So for whatever reason yesterday I decided to do a Goggle Earth to see if the house we lived in was still there in Conifer, it wasn't nor were any of the homes that were nearby, the pond that was below us near Hwy. 285 was gone as well. My thought is that the fire that was in that area may have taken out the homes in our development, so I went for information on burnt homes, only one home burned and it wasn't ours. I had a haunting thought that land laws may have changed and so I checked that out and ran across a Jefferson County paper on "Conifer/285 Corridor Area Plan, that plan sounded like a HOA nightmare, no new homes on anything less than 5 acres, piped in water and no septic tanks. All kinds of laws on what materials could be used in building. My wife and I are sure God gave us warning to get out of there, if anyone was living in our old home, I suspect they were paid to move and the homes in that area were torn down. In 2000 we took a trip to Kansas to visit my wife's relatives and my mom and stepdad, then we went up to Conifer to see if there had been any changes, we asked the owner of the home we lived in if we could see the changes he had made and he showed us around, he had built a new kitchen and family room over the two car garage and mentioned that he had paid just over $200,000 for the home, when we bought it it was around $93,000, the owner told us the home was then worth around $300,000. So my thinking is that the Conifer/285 Corridor Plan is just like a HOA by the county, all I know is that even though it's been many years since we lived there, it leaves a hole in my heart to see it gone, I hope the last owner was well paid for the removal and move to a new home. Welcome to the "Brave New World".