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Dolores County adopts four-month moratorium on new land-use and subdivision applications
Summary
The Dolores County Board of County Commissioners adopted a temporary moratorium — up to four months — on accepting new land-use and subdivision applications while staff finalizes updates to the county's land-use regulations and incorporates subdivision rules into a single document.
The Dolores County Board of County Commissioners voted to adopt a temporary moratorium on accepting new land-use and subdivision applications, the board’s chair said at the June 16 meeting. Staff told commissioners the pause will allow the county to finish red-line revisions to the Dolores County land-use regulations and bring subdivision regulations into the same code.
“This moratorium…you can do this for up to 6 months without a hearing,” a staff member said while explaining the legal basis for the short-term pause. The staff presentation said recent state legislative mandates and enforcement changes — including wildfire-related rules and civil-infractions procedures — prompted the consolidated update. The staff recommended a limited moratorium to avoid processing applications under rules that the board intends to replace.
Commissioners noted the moratorium would not apply to applications already received by the county prior to adoption. Chair moved to adopt the resolution and the motion passed by voice vote; the board recorded the adopted resolution number in the meeting record (transcript formatting shows variants such as “O6Dash36Dash02” and “06Dash26Dash02”).
Staff said the moratorium is intended to be temporary and that the county expects to have revised regulations ready for adoption within the next three to four months. The board directed staff to proceed with the code revisions and to return with the updated language and schedule for public notice and hearings as required for ordinance adoption.
