Survey—Vertical Zoning
Do you presently use vertical zoning your business district? Please share other relevant info--did you look into it, decide against it or never thought about it.
Aspen We do not currently have vertical zoning incorporated into our land use code. We have allowed it in certain places under a PUD (Clark's market area). However, we have recognized the benefit of limiting retail uses to the first floor of the commercial core, and have a code amendment pending regarding this. I believe Vail has a pretty good set of regulations on vertical zoning
Julie Ann Woods, A.I.C.P./MLA
Avon We don't have it, and have no intent at this time of implementing such. I promised my staff I would get a root canal before I ever contemplated it. So I'll let you know if I get the dental appointment, so you can have some advance warning!
Crested Butte It's a problem here with real estate and other offices occupying potential retail space on the ground floor. The problem does not seem to be growing right now. The Council has discussed vertical zoning regulations but to this point has decided against moving toward that goal - though that could change. The current hope is that market conditions may change the situation, and having offices occupy space is better than having empty space which, in a slow economy, is the likely alternative.
Frisco As of today, the Town of Frisco does not have regulations in place restricting the types of businesses to certain locations in business districts (vertical zoning).We have noticed a trend of more and more offices moving into the central core area of our town, so it would not surprise me if we begin to consider "vertical zoning" at some point in the future. So far though, this has not appeared to be an issue for us.
Grand Junction does not use it.
Minturn We do not have such zoning regulations here, however, I did some work in college for the city of El Paso, TX on just such an idea, I will not bore with the details. However, the result of my time and review of like ordinances is if you would like to do "vertical zoning", look at Gross Floor Area ordinances and convert them to ratios for buildings. For example, 50 % of Total GFA devoted to Office Commercial Zoning, 30% to Retail Commercial Zoning, 20% Residential Zoning, with any additional requirements you want like, the first floor must be retail, so many new business "fronts" per linear feet, etc. Keep in mind this was in a tall 20-30 story building business core, but it seems it may work for a serious attempt at (re)forming a downtown business/residential core. Hope this
helps.
Montrose does not utilize vertical zoning.
ParkCity does not have any verticle zoning, but would also be very interested in the results of this study.
Silverthorne - no vertical zoning. Has not yet been considered.
SnowmassVillage We do not have zoning per se. All developments are done under a PUD whichcan have the same effect in designating uses according to the floor level.
Steamboat Springs Our development code contains language saying that the street level (in the business district) should be for retail, the 2nd floor for offices, and 3rd floors for residences. However, it's not iron-clad and has been waived.