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Grand Junction adopts zoning changes to implement Colorado'wide turf restrictions
Summary
The City Council on Dec. 3 adopted an amendment to Title 21 of the municipal code to implement state limits on nonfunctional turf, clarify irrigation zoning and adjust street-frontage landscape rules; the measure passed 4-2 after council questions about impacts on smaller multifamily projects and housing costs.
The Grand Junction City Council on Dec. 3 adopted an amendment to the city's zoning and development code that implements Colorado'level restrictions on the installation of nonfunctional turf and clarifies related landscaping and irrigation rules.
Principal Planner Tim Laerbach told council the amendment revises chapters 21.07 and 21.14 to prohibit nonfunctional turf on commercial, institutional, industrial properties, common-interest communities for developments of 13 or more units, and in rights of way, medians and parking lots, in line with state legislation that takes effect Jan. 1, 2026. Laerbach said native or hybridized arid grasses are exempt and…
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