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City council adopts zoning code changes to MU-1 and MU-3 districts, clarifies retail and outdoor-entertainment rules

3444020 · May 7, 2025
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Summary

Council approved a package of amendments to Title 21 clarifying sign standards, retail size thresholds, and allowing outdoor entertainment in MU‑3 (with conditions), and reducing accessory structure front setbacks; the planning commission recommended approval 5‑0‑2 and the council passed the ordinance 7‑0.

The Grand Junction City Council adopted ordinance No. 52-60 on final passage to amend Title 21 of the zoning and development code, updating standards for the mixed-use neighborhood (MU‑1) and mixed-use downtown (MU‑3) zone districts.

The approved changes respond to conflicts that arose after the city’s 2023 code rewrite. Key elements include: clarifying that the MU‑1 sign standards (which had been drawn from a more restrictive residential code) apply only to MU‑1 properties whose land-use designation explicitly contains the word…

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