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Mountain Village City Zoning Code

17.3.2 Zone

Districts Established.

A. Zone Districts.

1. The following zone districts are established for use within the Town:

a. Active Open Space Zone District (“AOS”):

i. Limited use, ski resort active open space (“class 1 AOS”);

ii. Limited use, golf course active open space (“class 2 AOS”);

iii. Full use, ski resort active open space (“class 3 AOS”);

iv. Resource conservation active open space (“class 4 AOS”); and

v. Right-of-way active open space (“class 5 AOS”).

b. Passive Open Space Zone District (“POS”);

c. Civic Zone District (“CV”);

d. Multifamily Zone District (“MF”);

e. Maintenance-Public Works Zone District (“MPW”);

f. Single-family Zone District (“SF”);

g. Single-family Common Interest Community Zone District (“SFCI”);

h. Village Center Zone District (“VC”); and

i. PUD Zone District (“PUD”).

2. These zone districts were established in order to implement the Comprehensive Plan’s land use plan policies including but not limited to the land uses envisioned in the future land use plan map.

a. The Comprehensive Plan future land use map shall be implemented by:

i. Ensuring all development applications that are required to be in general conformance with the Comprehensive Plan are compliant with the land use plan policies and future land use map of the Comprehensive Plan (Please refer to the Town Comprehensive Plan Regulations in Chapter 1); and;

ii. Ensuring that the ski resort operator and the golf resort operator’s land will be rezoned in the future to be in general conformance with the land use plan policies and the future land use plan as set forth in the Comprehensive Plan, including but not limited to the public benefit number 9 in the Comprehensive Plan public benefits table, that requires Telluride Ski Resort operator and Telluride Golf Resort operator’s land to be rezoned to be consistent with the six open space classifications shown on the future land use plan and as set forth in this CDC.

B. Zone District Descriptions and Land Uses. The following sections provide a description of the zone districts and the general uses allowed within each zone district. The land uses allowed in each zone district are more specifically set forth in the land Use Schedule.

1. Active Open Space Zone Districts’ Classifications. Active open space has the following zone district classifications:

a. Limited Use Ski Resort Active Open Space (Class 1 AOS). The class 1 AOS Zone District is intended to provide open space areas limited to active recreational uses, recreational trails, ski resort uses limited to snowmaking systems, ski runs, ski events and related activities, tramways and related facilities and other similar uses that involve limited vertical development.

b. Limited Use Golf Course Active Open Space (Class 2 AOS). The class 2 AOS Zone District is intended to provide open space areas limited to golf course facilities and related activities, such as greens, tees, fairways, golf cart paths, infrastructure, waterworks, irrigation, pump houses, electrical, lightning shelters, recreational trails and similar uses.

c. Full Use Ski Resort Active Open Space (Class 3 AOS). The class 3 AOS Zone District is intended to provide open space areas with more intensive land uses than those permitted in the class 1 AOS and class 2 AOS zone districts that are typically associated with the operation and maintenance of a ski resort and the community at large, which are limited to ski resort uses, active recreation uses, recreational trails, community infrastructure, equestrian facilities, workforce housing, telecommunications antenna and similar uses.

d. Resource Conservation Active Open Space (Class 4 AOS). The class 4 AOS Zone District is intended to provide open space areas limited to passive open space uses such as recreational trails, picnicking areas, nature interpretation, nature viewing and similar uses.

e. Right-of-Way and Access Active Open Space (Class 5 AOS). The class 4 AOS Zone district is intended to provide open space areas limited to roadways, driveways, vehicular signage, utilities, parking, infrastructure, telecommunications antennas, recreational trails, ski runs and associated infrastructure at road-ski run intersections, community infrastructures and similar uses.

2. Passive Open Space Zone District. The Passive Open Space Zone District (“POS”) is intended to provide open space areas limited to passive open space uses, land in a natural state, environmental restoration such as wetland mitigation and forest management, fire mitigation, subsurface utilities and infrastructure, and similar uses.

3. Civic Zone District. The Civic Zone District (“CV”) is intended to provide civic land uses limited to municipal facilities, community facilities, workforce housing, hotbed development in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan, and similar uses. This zone district shall only be applied to the Town Hall Subarea and is expressly prohibited elsewhere, including but not limited to the ski resort operator’s shops area located off of Prospect Creek Drive.

4. Multifamily Zone District. The Multifamily Zone District (“MF”) is intended to provide higher density multifamily uses limited to multifamily dwellings, hotbed development, recreational trails, workforce housing and similar uses.

5. Maintenance – Public Works Zone District. The Maintenance-Public Works Zone District (“MPW”) is intended to provide land for public works uses limited to community infrastructure, recreational trails, maintenance facilities, public works facilities and similar uses. This zone district, or a PUD zone district with the same land uses, shall be applied to any rezoning of the ski resort operators shops area located off of Prospect Creek Drive.

6. Single-Family Zone District. The Single-family Zone District (SF) is intended to provide lower density single-family residential areas limited to single-family dwellings and similar uses. Nonsubdivideable duplex zoning designations are permitted to continue within the single-family zone district on lots 213, 245 and 257B unless such lots are rezoned to the have a single-family zoning designation.

7. Single-Family Common Interest Community Zone District. The Single-family Common Interest Community Zone District (“SFCI”) is intended to provide lower density, single-family residential areas limited to single-family dwellings that are platted as single-family lots subject to limitations set forth in the subdivision regulations, and similar uses.

8. Village Center Zone District. The Village Center Zone District (“VC”) is intended to provide for a mix of high intensity and high density land uses in the Village Center limited to commercial, multifamily, recreational trails, active recreation uses, recreational facilities, parking facilities, visitor-oriented uses, conferencing facilities, cultural facilities and uses, workforce housing, resort support and similar uses.

9. PUD Zone District. The Planned Unit Development (“PUD”) Zone District is intended to provide for a development to achieve the new land uses envisioned in the Comprehensive Plan and/or the PUD purposes set forth in the PUD regulations, with a variety of land uses as envisioned in the Comprehensive Plan.