Installation of solid-fuel burning devices, including woodstoves and open fireplaces, is prohibited in the Telluride Air Quality Region as illustrated in map below. However, all solid-fuel burning device permits issued prior to June 4, 1992, the effective date of this provision, shall be honored, except where limited by later property-specific agreements.

(Res. No. 2024-54, 12-18-2024)

For the purposes of this section the following definitions apply:

Solid Fuel Burning Device

Free-standing fireplace, airtight stove, Franklin stove, conventional masonry fireplace, any similar fireplace whose operation requires that it be built into a structure, or a fireplace insert or any other device intended for heating interior habitable space through the burning of a solid fuel such as, but not limited to, wood, biomass or coal, including "fireplaces" and woodstoves".

Telluride Air Quality Region

The area as mapped below for purposes of furthering County Air Quality Regulations; the area previously identified as the 1989 Telluride Regional Area Master Plan boundaries.