Zoneomics Logo
search icon

Taos City Zoning Code

§ 16.16.100.4

Conditional uses.

The following uses shall be permitted in the R-4 zone only if a conditional use permit is granted:
Bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, provided that:
A. 
Three thousand five hundred (3,500) square feet per guestroom shall be provided on the lot (clarification: minimum lot size shall be 3,500 square feet per guestroom);
B. 
Not more than five (5) rooms are available for guest lodging, and this limitation may not be increased by variance;
C. 
The manager resides in and occupies the bed and breakfast inn or boarding house;
D. 
Provision of food and meals shall meet all applicable state and local regulations and shall be served only to guests of the bed and breakfast inn or boarding house;
E. 
All applicable codes shall be met, including, but not limited to, fire code, building code and this title;
F. 
The following off-street parking requirements shall be met:
1. 
One parking space per employee;
2. 
One marked parking space for each guestroom; and
3. 
One parking space for the resident manager;
G. 
Only one sign, not to exceed four (4) square feet, that may be externally illuminated; and
H. 
Landscaping and all other applicable performance standards of this title and any other applicable town ordinance or regulation shall be met.
Guesthouse used for long term rental, so long as it is used only as an accessory to a primary single-family residence, and is not an accessory to a two-family attached or semiattached residence.
Manufactured home park, provided that it is developed as a planned unit development according to section 16.16.190 of this chapter.
The following nonresidential uses:
A.
Professional office or service.
B.
Dance, karate or personal performance studio.
C.
Daycare.
D.
Specialty retail, such as artist galleries, artist studios, delicatessens, meat and fish markets, bakeries, fruits and vegetables, desserts, and other specialty foods, specialty apparel and other specialty merchandise.
E.
Other commercial uses that are compatible and complementary in scale and appearance with the residential environment and provide business services and office facilities to residents of the neighborhood, but excluding appliance stores, automobile/pleasure craft dealership, large equipment sale and rental, machine shop, handicraft manufacturing, manufactured homes sale and service, package liquor, pet sales/grooming/obedience, pharmaceuticals/drugstores.
(Ordinance 99-05 adopted 1999; Ordinance 03-07 adopted 2003)