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Planning commission focuses on growth‑management, TDRs and special‑event rules in draft plan
Summary
Commissioners and staff discussed intensity reduction in rural areas, potential changes to the transferable development rights program, and tighter limits or clearer criteria for short‑term rentals and special‑event venues.
During the Sept. 30 work session, Pitkin County planning staff presented land‑use policy language aimed at managing development intensity in rural areas, clarifying exemptions from growth‑management processes and refining the county’s transferable development rights (TDR) program.
Staff said the draft includes a new policy thread to reduce use intensity as properties move farther into rural and remote areas and to concentrate higher‑intensity uses nearer infrastructure and urban service areas. "There is o 2.1 0.2, intensity reduction in rural areas," Ellen (planning…
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