Taos, NM zoning districts
27 districts, 27 with a written citation. Each row says what the district permits by primary use.
Town of Taos, New Mexico (Taos County, FIPS 35055; Census incorporated place 'Taos town'). Zoning is the TOWN OF TAOS LAND USE DEVELOPMENT CODE, TITLE 16, and specifically CHAPTER 16.16 ZONING REGULATIONS -- a conventional EUCLIDEAN LISTED-USE code for its base zones, with a form-based TRANSECT district (16.16.230 TND) grafted on. Each base zone has its own section carrying 'Permitted principal uses', 'Permitted accessory uses' and 'Conditional uses' lists. PERMISSION MECHANISM, read from the code and not assumed: 16.16.010.2(B) provides that 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted', and 16.16.010.4(A) supplies the express catch-all -- 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited on that clause's own authority. For the TND transect zones the equivalent grid is 16.16.230.11 TABLE 10, whose own legend reads 'R By right' / 'C By conditional use permit', with intensity bands in TABLE 8. *** THE LAYER IS COUNTY-WIDE. This is the single most important fact about this table. The Land Use Zones service carries polygons for land the Town does not zone -- COUNTY, PUEBLO (Taos Pueblo), PICURIS (Picuris Pueblo), QUESTA, RED RIVER, TSV (Taos Ski Valley), BLM and FOREST. Those eight are authored as EXPLICIT honest-null rows naming the responsible authority, never as Town districts, and they are exactly the eight ZONE_1 values carrying no eCode360 citation hyperlink in the Town's own GIS. The 'JURIS' field, which sounds like it would separate them, is EMPTY or null on all 238 features and cannot be used. *** USE FAMILIES are declared rather than left implicit: RESIDENTIAL = principal dwelling uses (single-family, two-family/duplex, multi-family, manufactured home on an individual lot, live-work unit, flex building, mixed use block); COMMERCIAL = retail, personal service, professional office, eating/drinking, lodging, entertainment and vehicle service uses; INDUSTRIAL = manufacturing and light manufacturing/processing, warehousing and storage buildings, outdoor storage lots and yards, wholesaling and distribution operations, personal storage, and salvage or junk yards. ACCESSORY AND INCIDENTAL USES SET NO TRI-STATE -- most consequentially M-1's caretaker dwelling, which 16.16.170.4 admits only where 'the dwelling is an accessory' and 'is to be used only in conjunction with a commercial use permitted', and which therefore does not make M-1 a residential district. Home occupations are likewise accessory to a dwelling (16.20.070) and never raise the commercial axis. CIVIC, INSTITUTIONAL and PUBLIC-UTILITY uses (religious assembly, schools, fire and police stations, electric substations, wireless transmitters, playgrounds, bus shelters) inform category only and set no tri-state -- notably, an electric substation is utility infrastructure and is NOT read as an industrial entitlement in the transect zones. AFFORDABLE HOUSING, NOT MODELLED AS A TRI-STATE: 16.16.010.2(C) permits town-SPONSORED and town-APPROVED affordable housing in all zones except R-1, RA, RA-6, RA-10, RA-20 and ARO, by right up to R-14-equivalent density. Because that entitlement runs only to projects the town itself sponsors and approves, it is not a general by-right residential permission for an ordinary applicant and is deliberately NOT used to raise any district's residential axis; it is recorded here so the omission is visible rather than silent. OVERLAYS ARE REAL BUT UNMODELLED: 16.16.180 RHL, 16.16.190 PUD, 16.16.195 short term rental, 16.16.200 NPDO, 16.16.205 hotel, 16.16.210 SU special uses, 16.16.220 HOZ historic and 16.16.225 medical cannabis all exist as overlay zones, and NONE of them appears in the ZONE_1 string -- they ride separate layers -- so the overlays table is INTENTIONALLY EMPTY (P13) and invariant I7 is vacuous. The historic overlay in particular is very likely to apply in the CBD around Taos Plaza, and that is carried as a per-row caveat rather than silently ignored. The layer also carries unmodelled 'PUD' (16 features) and 'SU' (1 feature) attribute columns which do NOT appear in ZONE_1 and therefore never reach the resolver. USE-ONLY TABLE: no numeric envelope (height, setback, lot size, density) is authored even though each section's 'Development standards' supplies one -- the frozen Santa Fe/Fort Worth/Dallas posture (P22); density caps quoted in citations appear only where they qualify the residential entitlement itself. NO NEW MEXICO STATE-LAW PREEMPTION LAYER EXISTS AND NONE IS AUTHORED (P21). 16.16.010.1 provides that 'Split zoned parcels shall not be permitted', which is why a single point-in-polygon read is a sound basis for a district answer here.
How to read the permissions
By right — allowed without discretionary approval. Conditional use — allowed only with a specific approval. Not permitted — not allowed as a primary use. Not resolved — the ordinance does not settle it in a way we would state as fact.
These describe the district. A specific parcel can also be affected by overlays, corridors, flood zones and site conditions.
| District | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
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ARO
Agriculture, Recreation, Open Space, Flood Zone (ARO)
special
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Not permitted | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.020 (eCode360 41968723/41968692). 16.16.020.2 permitted principal uses lists exactly ONE use: 'Agriculture and ranching, with grazing on no less than five (5) acres of land.' NO DWELLING OF ANY KIND IS PERMITTED OR CONDITIONALLY PERMITTED in ARO -- residential is prohibited, which is the opposite of what the presence of 'open space' land in a residential-looking county might suggest. 16.16.020.4 conditional uses are golf course or driving range, outdoor plant nursery, park, riding stables on no less than five acres, and wildlife sanctuary/woodland preserve/arboretum -- commercial-recreation and horticultural enterprises only, so the commercial axis is CONDITIONAL and confined to those, never general retail or office. Industrial appears nowhere. TWO FACTS A BUYER MUST SEE: ARO is the flood zone, and 16.16.010.3(B) provides that a special use permit 'may be applied for in any zone except the ARO zone' -- ARO is the single zone in Taos with no special-use escape hatch. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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BLM
Bureau of Land Management land (BLM)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management; federal public land is not subject to municipal or county zoning. | |||
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C-1
Neighborhood Commercial Zone (C-1)
commercial neighborhood
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Conditional use | By right | Conditional use |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.130 (eCode360 41969202). 16.16.130.2 permitted principal uses: 'Eating/drinking establishments, excluding bar/lounge and clubs', 'General merchandise retail, excluding department stores, discount stores, supermarkets, and pawnshops', 'Personal service retail establishments' including motor vehicle service/repair and fuel sales under stated enclosure and setback provisos, 'Professional office or service', dry cleaning under stated provisos, family amusement or entertainment (excluding go-cart/carnival/thrill rides), golf course/driving range, home occupation -> COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT. RESIDENTIAL IS CONDITIONAL, NOT BY-RIGHT: 16.16.130.4 lists 'Single-family dwelling', 'Two-family attached or semiattached residence' and 'Multi-family residence, such as a triplex, townhouse, condominium or apartment' among the CONDITIONAL uses, together with bed and breakfast inns/boarding houses, club, daycare, hotel/motel/cabins and recreational uses. INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONAL AND MINIMAL: the only industrial-family use in the zone is 'Personal storage' as a conditional use; no manufacturing, warehousing or wholesaling appears. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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C-2
General Commercial Zone (C-2)
commercial
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Conditional use | By right | Conditional use |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.140 (eCode360 41969239). 16.16.140.2 permitted principal uses open with 'Any use permitted in the C-1 zone' and add 'Eating/drinking establishments' without C-1's bar/lounge exclusion, 'General merchandise retail' without C-1's exclusions, 'Lodging establishments, excluding bed and breakfast inn or boarding house', 'Personal service retail establishments', 'Professional office or service' and 'Specialty retail establishments' -> COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT and broader than C-1. RESIDENTIAL IS CONDITIONAL: 16.16.140.4 lists 'Single-family dwelling' as a conditional use, and 'Multi-family residence, such as a triplex, townhouse, condominium or apartment' and 'Two-family attached or semiattached residence' as conditional uses ONLY 'provided they are incorporated into a planned unit development' -- so multi-family in C-2 needs both a conditional use permit and a PUD. INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONAL: 'Wholesaling or distribution operation' and 'Personal storage' are conditional uses; no manufacturing is permitted at any level. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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CBD
Central Business District (CBD)
commercial core
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By right | By right | By right |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.150 (eCode360 41969261) -- the Taos Plaza core, and the known-good live fixture for this city. 16.16.150.1: 'The CBD zone forms the community's center for commercial, historic, financial, professional, governmental, civic, religious, and cultural activities... including residential usage.' RESIDENTIAL BY-RIGHT AS A PRINCIPAL USE: 16.16.150.2 permits 'Single-family, two-family and multi-family dwellings, including apartments, condominiums, and townhouses' outright -- unlike C-1 and C-2, where dwellings are conditional. COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT: 'Eating or drinking establishments, excluding clubs', 'General merchandise retail' (excluding convenience/small grocery with fuel sales, department store and discount store), 'Lodging establishments', 'Personal service retail establishments', 'Professional office or service', 'Specialty retail establishments', 'Theaters'. INDUSTRIAL BY-RIGHT BUT LIGHT ONLY, AND THE LIMIT IS IN THE ORDINANCE'S OWN WORDS: the only industrial-family entry is 'Wholesaling operation, provided that no manufacturing or storage for distribution shall be permitted on the premises.' Because the by-right industrial entitlement is a wholesaling operation expressly stripped of manufacturing AND of distribution storage, an explicit nuisance override to medium-intensity is recorded rather than the mechanical high-intensity the resolver would otherwise compute -- the frozen Santa Fe BCD / Austin CBD precedent. Conditional uses (16.16.150.4): club, convenience or small grocery store with fuel sales at two or more pumps, daycare, department store/discount store, guesthouse used for long term rental. Development standards cap overall density at 29 dwelling units per acre (16.16.150.5.A) absent a PUD or special use permit, and 16.16.150.5.I provides that CBD property also inside the historic overlay must comply with 16.16.220 -- the historic overlay is a SEPARATE layer that never appears in ZONE_1, so it is carried as a caveat rather than modelled. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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CIVIC_SP
TND Civic Space / Special District (CIVIC_SP)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.230 (eCode360 41969841) -- the TND district, the same section the transect zones cite. HONEST-NULL AND LOW CONFIDENCE BY POLICY, for a reason worth stating plainly: the live code 'CIVIC_SP' is a GIS label, and the TND section contains TWO distinct constructs it could denote, with materially different approval paths. 16.16.230.9(B) governs CIVIC ZONES -- civic space, whose type is 'determined by the surrounding or adjacent transect zone in conjunction with the traditional neighborhood plan' and which 'shall be permitted by town council discretionary warrant', and civic buildings, whose particulars are 'determined by town council discretionary warrant'. 16.16.230.9(C) governs SPECIAL DISTRICTS -- 'Areas that, by their intrinsic size, function, or configuration, cannot conform to the requirements of any transect zone or combination of transect zones', where 'Development within an approved special district shall be by conditional use permit'. Nothing in the adopted code or in the layer's own attributes resolves which of the two 'CIVIC_SP' means, and both are discretionary and parcel-specific rather than table-driven. Assigning a tri-state would therefore be a guess dressed as an interpretation, so all three axes are null. What IS deterministic, and is what we publish, is that development here is governed by an adopted traditional neighborhood plan and regulating map plus a discretionary town council warrant or conditional use permit, not by a use table. Three polygons. | |||
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COUNTY
Unincorporated Taos County (COUNTY)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of Taos County, under the County's own land use regulations rather than the Town's. | |||
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FOREST
National Forest land (FOREST)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of the U.S. Forest Service (Carson National Forest); federal land is not subject to municipal or county zoning. | |||
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HCPD
Highway Corridor Protection District (HCPD)
commercial
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Conditional use | By right | By right |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.160 (eCode360 41969282). This district defines its uses BY REFERENCE rather than by enumeration, and the two references differ -- which is the whole subtlety of the row. PERMITTED (16.16.160.2): 'Any use specifically listed as a permitted use in the C-1, C-2, or CBD zones, EXCLUDING manufactured home sales and service and single-family, two-family and multi-family dwellings', plus 'Handicrafts manufacturing with no more than five (5) employees, provided that related production can be conducted within the confines of a structure or enclosed yard.' CONDITIONAL (16.16.160.4): 'Any use specifically listed as a conditional use in the C-1, C-2, or CBD zones, EXCLUDING guesthouses and go-carts/carnival/thrill rides.' COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT follows directly from the inherited C-1/C-2/CBD permitted lists. RESIDENTIAL IS CONDITIONAL, AND THIS IS A RECORDED COMPOSITION JUDGMENT (hence the category-judgment-call caveat): dwellings are expressly struck from the PERMITTED inheritance, but the CONDITIONAL inheritance carries its own, different exclusion list which does NOT strike dwellings -- and single-family, two-family and multi-family dwellings ARE conditional uses in C-1 and C-2. Reading the two clauses as written therefore leaves dwellings available in HCPD by conditional use permit only. INDUSTRIAL BY-RIGHT BUT MICRO-SCALE: the handicrafts-manufacturing clause is a genuine by-right manufacturing entitlement, but it is capped at five employees and must be conducted within a structure or enclosed yard, so a nuisance override to medium-intensity is recorded instead of the mechanical high-intensity; C-2's conditional 'Wholesaling or distribution operation' and 'Personal storage' are also inherited at the conditional level. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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M-1
Light Manufacturing Zone (M-1)
industrial light
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Not permitted | By right | By right |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.170 (eCode360 41969300) -- the Town's only manufacturing zone (18 of 238 polygons). 16.16.170.2 permitted principal uses: 'Any use permitted in the C-1, C-2, and CBD zones, EXCLUDING single-family, two-family and multi-family dwellings', 'Club', 'Light manufacturing or processing', and 'Warehousing or storage buildings, including outdoor storage lots and yards, provided they are enclosed by walls or fences six feet (6') in height, with access only through gates which shall be kept closed when not in use' -> COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT (inherited) and INDUSTRIAL BY-RIGHT (light manufacturing plus warehousing and outdoor storage yards). Nuisance ceiling is the COMPUTED high-intensity and no override is recorded: a zone permitting outdoor storage yards by right and automobile salvage or junk yards conditionally genuinely reaches it. RESIDENTIAL PROHIBITED, and the grounding is explicit rather than inferred: dwellings are struck from the inherited permitted list by name, and the only dwelling anywhere in 16.16.170.4 is 'One single-family dwelling on any lot in the zone, provided that the dwelling is an accessory... used only by the owner or lessee of the lot on which the dwelling is erected... and the dwelling is to be used only in conjunction with a commercial use permitted' -- an expressly ACCESSORY caretaker unit tied to a commercial use, which establishes no principal residential entitlement and so sets no tri-state (the same posture applied to manager/caretaker residences throughout this table and to Santa Fe's accessory-only cells). The caveat carries the fact that such a caretaker unit may be conditionally available. Other conditional uses include adult entertainment (subject to 1,000-foot separation from schools, churches, daycare, parks, recreational facilities, residential zones and liquor establishments; adult drive-in theaters are 'specifically prohibited'), automobile salvage or junk yards, daycare and flea markets. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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PICURIS
Picuris Pueblo (PICURIS)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign federally recognized tribal nation whose land is held in trust and is not subject to Town or County zoning. | |||
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PUEBLO
Taos Pueblo (PUEBLO)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of Taos Pueblo, a sovereign federally recognized tribal nation whose land is held in trust and is not subject to Town or County zoning. | |||
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QUESTA
Village of Questa (QUESTA)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of the Village of Questa, a separate incorporated municipality with its own zoning ordinance. | |||
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R-1
Single-Family Residential Zone (R-1)
residential low
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.070 (eCode360 41968938). 16.16.070.2 permitted principal uses: 'Single-family dwelling located on a single lot', 'Manufactured homes on individual lots', home occupation, and a temporary manufactured/prefabricated dwelling during construction of a permanent residence -> residential by-right (a manufactured home is a by-right dwelling). 16.16.070.4 conditional uses: bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, guesthouse used for long term rental, and an enumerated set of nonresidential uses -> commercial conditional. No industrial use appears -> prohibited. NOTE 16.16.010.2(C)(1): town-sponsored and town-approved affordable housing is permitted in all zones EXCEPT R-1, RA, RA-6, RA-10, RA-20 and ARO -- R-1 is expressly carved OUT of that program. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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R-14
Multi-Family Residential Zone (R-14)
residential mixed
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By right | By right | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.120 (eCode360 41969161). 38 of 238 polygons -- the second-largest Town district. THE COUNTER-INTUITIVE ONE, AND THE CLEAREST REASON NOT TO INFER PERMISSIONS FROM A DISTRICT NAME: R-14 is titled a MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL zone, yet 16.16.120.2 permits NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMERCIAL BY RIGHT alongside the dwellings. Permitted principal uses: 'Multi-family residence, such as a triplex, townhouse, condominium or apartment', 'Single-family dwelling', 'Two-family attached or semiattached residence' -> residential by-right; AND 'Personal service retail establishments' (excluding commercial parking lot, dry cleaning, health spa or fitness club, kennel, photo processing and personal storage), 'Professional office or service', 'Specialty retail establishment' operating between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. and 'compatible and complementary in scale and appearance with the residential environment', plus 'Other commercial uses that are compatible and complementary in scale and appearance with the residential environment and provide business services and office facilities to residents of the neighborhood' -> COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT, bounded by scale, compatibility and the 7am-7pm operating window (specialty retail outside those hours drops to a conditional use under 16.16.120.4). INDUSTRIAL PROHIBITED ON THE CODE'S OWN WORDS, not merely by silence: that same 'Other commercial uses' clause EXPRESSLY EXCLUDES 'appliance stores, automobile/pleasure craft dealership, large equipment sale and rental, machine shop, handicraft manufacturing'. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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R-2
Single-Family Residential Zone (R-2)
residential low
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.080 (eCode360 41968983). 16.16.080.2 permitted principal uses: 'Single-family dwelling', 'Manufactured homes on individual lots', home occupation, temporary dwelling during construction -> residential by-right. 16.16.080.4 conditional uses add 'A second single-family dwelling' (the R-1/R-2 distinction), bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, guesthouse for long term rental, and an enumerated set of nonresidential uses -> commercial conditional. No industrial use appears -> prohibited. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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R-4
Residential Zone (R-4)
residential medium
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.100 (eCode360 41969065). THE LARGEST TOWN DISTRICT IN THE LAYER (46 of 238 polygons). 16.16.100.2 permitted principal uses: 'Single-family dwelling', 'Two-family attached or semiattached residence, such as a duplex, townhouse, condominium or apartment', 'Manufactured homes on individual lots', home occupation -> residential by-right through two-family; multi-family is NOT permitted here (that is R-6 and R-14). 16.16.100.4 conditional uses: bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, guesthouse for long term rental (accessory to a primary single-family residence only), manufactured home park developed as a planned unit development under 16.16.190, and an enumerated set of nonresidential uses -> commercial conditional. No industrial use appears -> prohibited. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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R-6
Residential Zone (R-6)
residential high
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.110 (eCode360 41969113). 16.16.110.2 permitted principal uses: 'Single-family dwelling', 'Two-family attached or semiattached residence', 'Multi-family residence, such as a triplex, townhouse, condominium or apartment', 'Manufactured homes on individual lots', home occupation -> residential by-right including multi-family. 16.16.110.4 conditional uses: bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, manufactured home park as a planned unit development, and an enumerated set of nonresidential uses -> commercial conditional. No industrial use appears -> prohibited. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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R-A
Residential/Agricultural Zone (RA)
residential low
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.060 (eCode360 41968881). NOTE THE CODE-STRING DIVERGENCE: the ordinance district is 'RA' (no hyphen); the GIS layer emits it as 'R-A', ADDING a hyphen. 'R-A' is the key authored here because it is the string the point query returns -- the inverse of the Rio Rancho case where the GIS strips a hyphen the ordinance has. Permitted principal uses include 'Single-family dwelling located on a single lot', 'Manufactured homes on individual lots', 'Agriculture and ranching', 'Farms and ranches', 'Riding stables' and home occupation -> RESIDENTIAL BY-RIGHT, and note that a manufactured home is a by-right dwelling here, not a variance case. Conditional uses are bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, convenience or small grocery store WITHOUT fuel sales, farm and ranch labor housing (occupancy not exceeding five persons), guesthouse used for long term rental, recreational uses, and a list of nonresidential uses admitted only 'provided that the goods and/or services provided by these establishments support "agricultural land use" as defined in section 16.08.020.3' -> COMMERCIAL CONDITIONAL and tightly bounded to agriculture-supporting commerce plus a small grocery and lodging; daycare is additionally a conditional use. No manufacturing, warehousing, wholesale or storage use appears -> industrial prohibited. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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RA-10
Residential/Agricultural Zone (RA-10)
residential low
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.040 (eCode360 41968778). Permitted principal uses include 'Single-family dwelling located on a single lot', 'Manufactured homes on individual lots', 'Agriculture and ranching', 'Farms and ranches', 'Riding stables' and home occupation -> RESIDENTIAL BY-RIGHT, and note that a manufactured home is a by-right dwelling here, not a variance case. Conditional uses are bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, convenience or small grocery store WITHOUT fuel sales, farm and ranch labor housing (occupancy not exceeding five persons), guesthouse used for long term rental, recreational uses, and a list of nonresidential uses admitted only 'provided that the goods and/or services provided by these establishments support "agricultural land use" as defined in section 16.08.020.3' -> COMMERCIAL CONDITIONAL and tightly bounded to agriculture-supporting commerce plus a small grocery and lodging; daycare is additionally a conditional use. No manufacturing, warehousing, wholesale or storage use appears -> industrial prohibited. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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RA-20
Residential/Agricultural Zone (RA-20)
residential low
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.030 (eCode360 41968735). Permitted principal uses include 'Single-family dwelling located on a single lot', 'Manufactured homes on individual lots', 'Agriculture and ranching', 'Farms and ranches', 'Riding stables' and home occupation -> RESIDENTIAL BY-RIGHT, and note that a manufactured home is a by-right dwelling here, not a variance case. Conditional uses are bed and breakfast inn or boarding house, convenience or small grocery store WITHOUT fuel sales, farm and ranch labor housing (occupancy not exceeding five persons), guesthouse used for long term rental, recreational uses, and a list of nonresidential uses admitted only 'provided that the goods and/or services provided by these establishments support "agricultural land use" as defined in section 16.08.020.3' -> COMMERCIAL CONDITIONAL and tightly bounded to agriculture-supporting commerce plus a small grocery and lodging; (no daycare conditional use, unlike RA-10 and R-A). No manufacturing, warehousing, wholesale or storage use appears -> industrial prohibited. Mechanism per 16.16.010.2(B) -- 'Land may be used or developed in a given zone only for those uses which are specifically listed for that zone as permitted uses, or as specially or conditionally permitted' -- and the express catch-all at 16.16.010.4(A): 'If a use is not specifically listed in the provisions of this chapter as permitted, or is not permitted by the issuance of either a conditional use permit or special use permit, then such a use is hereby expressly prohibited.' Permitted principal use -> by-right; conditional use -> conditional; unlisted -> prohibited, on that clause's own authority. | |||
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RED RIVER
Town of Red River (RED RIVER)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of the Town of Red River, a separate incorporated municipality with its own zoning ordinance. | |||
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T1
TND Transect Zone T-1, Natural Zone (T1)
special
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Not permitted | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.230 (TND traditional neighborhood development district; eCode360 41969841), transect zone T-1. T-1 IS THE NATURAL ZONE AND HAS NO COLUMN AT ALL IN TABLE 10 -- no specific function or use is listed as permitted or conditional in it, so under 16.16.010.4(A) every use is expressly prohibited. The only building provision is 16.16.230.10(B)(1): 'Buildings in the T-1 natural zone may be permitted by conditional use permit and only as an edge yard' -- a discretionary permission for a STRUCTURE, not an entitlement to any particular use, so it raises no permission axis and is carried as a caveat instead. Uses come from 16.16.230.11 TABLE 10 ('SPECIFIC FUNCTION AND USE'), whose legend is stated on the table itself -- 'R By right' / 'C By conditional use permit' -- with the intensity bands in TABLE 8 ('BUILDING FUNCTION; GENERAL'). 16.16.230.9(E)/16.16.010.4(A) supply the prohibition: a function absent from the transect's column is not specifically listed and is therefore expressly prohibited. NOTE that TABLE 10 carries NO 'light industrial facility' and NO 'heavy industrial facility' entry in ANY transect column -- those two rows are blank throughout, so no transect zone permits an industrial facility at any level. | |||
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T3
TND Transect Zone T-3, Sub-Urban (T3)
residential low
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By right | By right | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.230 (eCode360 41969841), transect zone T-3. TABLE 10, column T-3: RESIDENTIAL 'Live-work unit' R -> residential by-right, bounded by TABLE 8's 'Restricted residential' band -- 'The number of dwellings on each lot is restricted to 1 within a principal building and 1 within an accessory building, with 2.0 parking places for each dwelling. Both dwellings shall be under single ownership. The habitable area of the accessory dwelling shall not exceed 440 sq. ft.' COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT but tightly restricted: 'Bed and breakfast (up to 5 rooms)' R, 'Live-work unit' R (office), 'Open market building' R (retail), with TABLE 8's 'Restricted retail' band limiting retail to 'one corner lot per block at the first story of each 300 dwelling units' and to a neighbourhood store or restaurant seating no more than 20; civic uses bus shelter, fountain or public art, outdoor auditorium, playground and religious assembly are R, and irrigated agriculture, kennel, stable, cemetery and elementary school are C. INDUSTRIAL PROHIBITED: the only entries under TABLE 10's 'Industrial' heading for T-3 are 'Electric substation' C and 'Wireless transmitter' C, both public-utility infrastructure rather than industrial production, and 'Manufacturing' is blank in this column. Uses come from 16.16.230.11 TABLE 10 ('SPECIFIC FUNCTION AND USE'), whose legend is stated on the table itself -- 'R By right' / 'C By conditional use permit' -- with the intensity bands in TABLE 8 ('BUILDING FUNCTION; GENERAL'). 16.16.230.9(E)/16.16.010.4(A) supply the prohibition: a function absent from the transect's column is not specifically listed and is therefore expressly prohibited. NOTE that TABLE 10 carries NO 'light industrial facility' and NO 'heavy industrial facility' entry in ANY transect column -- those two rows are blank throughout, so no transect zone permits an industrial facility at any level. | |||
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T4
TND Transect Zone T-4, General Urban (T4)
mixed use
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By right | By right | Not permitted |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.230 (eCode360 41969841), transect zone T-4. TABLE 10, column T-4: RESIDENTIAL 'Flex building' R and 'Live-work unit' R -> residential by-right under TABLE 8's 'Limited residential' band. COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT and materially broader than T-3: lodging 'Bed and breakfast (up to 5 rooms)' R, 'Inn (up to 12 rooms)' R, 'School dormitory' R ('SRO hostel' C); office 'Office building' R and 'Live-work unit' R; retail 'Neighborhood store' R, 'Restaurant' R, 'Retail building' R, 'Display portal' R, 'Kiosk' R, 'Open market building' R ('Liquor selling establishment' C, 'Pushcart' C) -- bounded by TABLE 8's 'Limited retail' band (first story of buildings at corner lots, not more than one per block; neighbourhood store and restaurant seating no more than 40). INDUSTRIAL PROHIBITED: 'Manufacturing' is blank in the T-4 column and both industrial-facility rows are blank throughout; only 'Electric substation' C appears, which is utility infrastructure. Uses come from 16.16.230.11 TABLE 10 ('SPECIFIC FUNCTION AND USE'), whose legend is stated on the table itself -- 'R By right' / 'C By conditional use permit' -- with the intensity bands in TABLE 8 ('BUILDING FUNCTION; GENERAL'). 16.16.230.9(E)/16.16.010.4(A) supply the prohibition: a function absent from the transect's column is not specifically listed and is therefore expressly prohibited. NOTE that TABLE 10 carries NO 'light industrial facility' and NO 'heavy industrial facility' entry in ANY transect column -- those two rows are blank throughout, so no transect zone permits an industrial facility at any level. | |||
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T5b
TND Transect Zone T-5b, Urban Center (T5b)
commercial core
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By right | By right | By right |
| Town of Taos Land Use Development Code 16.16.230 (eCode360 41969841), transect zone T-5, category b. 16.16.230.9(A): 'There are five (5) transect zones in the TND district. They are T-1, T-2, T-3, T-4, and T-5. The T-5 transect zone includes two (2) categories. They are T-5a and T-5b.' TABLE 10's T-5 column governs, and where TABLE 8 confines a lower-intensity standard to T-5a the more permissive T-5 band applies to T-5b. RESIDENTIAL BY-RIGHT at the 'Open residential' band: 'Flex building' R, 'Live-work unit' R and 'Mixed use block' R -- T-5 is the only transect where a mixed use block is permitted. COMMERCIAL BY-RIGHT and the broadest of any transect: 'Hotel (no room limit)' R, 'Inn (up to 12 rooms)' R, 'Bed and breakfast' R, 'Office building' R, 'Retail building' R, 'Neighborhood store' R, 'Restaurant' R, 'Liquor selling establishment' R, plus civic 'Live theater', 'Movie theater', 'Museum', 'Parking structure' and 'Sports stadium' R. INDUSTRIAL BY-RIGHT BUT NARROW, AND THIS IS THE INTERESTING ONE: TABLE 10 lists 'Manufacturing' as R in the T-5 column -- the ONLY transect where manufacturing is permitted by right -- while 'Light industrial facility' and 'Heavy industrial facility' remain BLANK in every column including T-5. So T-5b permits manufacturing as an urban workshop use but no industrial facility at any intensity, which is why a nuisance override to medium-intensity is recorded rather than the mechanical high-intensity. Uses come from 16.16.230.11 TABLE 10 ('SPECIFIC FUNCTION AND USE'), whose legend is stated on the table itself -- 'R By right' / 'C By conditional use permit' -- with the intensity bands in TABLE 8 ('BUILDING FUNCTION; GENERAL'). 16.16.230.9(E)/16.16.010.4(A) supply the prohibition: a function absent from the transect's column is not specifically listed and is therefore expressly prohibited. NOTE that TABLE 10 carries NO 'light industrial facility' and NO 'heavy industrial facility' entry in ANY transect column -- those two rows are blank throughout, so no transect zone permits an industrial facility at any level. | |||
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TSV
Village of Taos Ski Valley (TSV)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| NOT A TOWN OF TAOS ZONING DISTRICT. The Land Use Zones layer this registry reads is COUNTY-WIDE, and this value marks land the Town of Taos does not zone. Two independent confirmations, both from the Town's own data and code: (1) this value appears NOWHERE in Land Use Development Code chapter 16.16, which establishes the Town's zones by name; and (2) it is one of exactly eight ZONE_1 values in the layer carrying NO eCode360 'ZoneCode' hyperlink, while every genuine Town district carries one -- the Town's own per-polygon citation is absent precisely because its code has no article for this land. All three permission axes are therefore honest-null at low confidence: the governing rules are another authority's and are not represented in this table. Routing is additionally place-gated on 'taos', so a parcel in one of these areas should not reach this table at all; the row exists so that if one ever does, it degrades to an explicit no-jurisdiction answer rather than resolving as an unmapped code or borrowing a Town district. This polygon is land of the Village of Taos Ski Valley, a separate incorporated municipality with its own zoning ordinance. | |||
Sources
- Town of Taos, NM -- TOWN OF TAOS CODE OF ORDINANCES, TITLE 16 LAND USE DEVELOPMENT, CHAPTER 16.16 ZONING REGULATIONS. FULL TEXT RETRIEVED 2026-07-28 from the Franklin Legal Publishing codification of the Taos Code of Ordinances, published by the Town through its own BoardDocs portal: https://www.boarddocs.com/nm/taosgov/Board.nsf/files/CQJLV6582E8D/$file/Taos%20Preliminary%20Draft.pdf (10.9 MB; Title 16 begins at page 16-1, chapter 16.16 at 16-79). ITS CODIFICATION VINTAGE IS STATED HONESTLY: the ordinance disposition table in that document runs through 2020 ordinances, and the chapter's own section credits cite Ordinances 99-05 (1999), 03-07 (2003), 04-01 (2004), 09-01 (2009), 10-25 (2010), 16-21 (2016), 17-07 (2017) and 18-06 (2018). Sections used: 16.16.010 (general provisions, permitted-use mechanism, prohibited-use catch-all, conditional and special use permits, affordable housing), 16.16.020 (ARO), 16.16.030 (RA-20), 16.16.040 (RA-10), 16.16.060 (RA), 16.16.070 (R-1), 16.16.080 (R-2), 16.16.100 (R-4), 16.16.110 (R-6), 16.16.120 (R-14), 16.16.130 (C-1), 16.16.140 (C-2), 16.16.150 (CBD), 16.16.160 (HCPD), 16.16.170 (M-1), 16.16.230 (TND, including 16.16.230.9 transect and civic zones, 16.16.230.10 building scale, and 16.16.230.11 TABLE 8 and TABLE 10), plus 16.20.070 (home occupations) for the accessory-use posture. Sections 16.16.050 (RA-6) and 16.16.090 (R-3) are ordinance zones that do NOT appear anywhere in the live layer and are deliberately NOT authored -- a district in the table that does not exist in the data is noise.
- The Town's CURRENT official codification host is eCode360 (General Code) -- ecode360.com, Town of Taos, Title 16: Land Use Development. It was NOT machine-retrievable on 2026-07-28: every request (plain, browser-headered, and via the print path) returned HTTP 403 from a Cloudflare bot-protection interstitial. THAT LIMITATION IS THE SOLE REASON NO TAOS ROW IS AUTHORED ABOVE MEDIUM CONFIDENCE. The eCode360 SECTION IDENTIFIERS are nonetheless authoritative and are used per-district, because they come from the TOWN'S OWN GIS: the 'ZoneCode' column of the Land Use Zones layer stores a per-polygon eCode360 hyperlink to the article governing that polygon -- ARO https://ecode360.com/41968723, RA-20 41968735, RA-10 41968778, R-A 41968881, R-1 41968938, R-2 41968983, R-4 41969065, R-6 41969113, R-14 41969161, C-1 41969202, C-2 41969239, CBD 41969261, HCPD 41969282, M-1 41969300, TND/civic 41969841, with 41968692 the chapter root (CHAPTER 16.16: ZONING REGULATIONS). Those identifiers ascend in exactly the order of the ordinance sections 16.16.020 through 16.16.230, which independently corroborates that the retrieved codification's district structure matches the currently published one district-for-district and in order. This is the Philadelphia per-polygon-bill-URL precedent applied to a citation column.
- Live Land Use Zones layer -- services8.arcgis.com/AUzB6nOCWYow3ofS/arcgis/rest/services/Land_Use_Zones/FeatureServer/116 ('Land Use Zone'), fields ZONE_1 (the district code), Hyperlink, ZoneCode (an eCode360 URL -- NOT a district code; see the city entry's authoring_note), ZoneDate, JURIS (empty on every feature), PUD, SU, SUBCLASS. Enumerated 2026-07-28 by paginating the features: 238 features, 27 distinct ZONE_1 values -- R-4 46, R-14 38, C-2 17, C-1 23, R-2 19, M-1 18, R-A 16, PUEBLO 10, ARO 9, R-1 8, R-6 5, T4 5, HCPD 4, CBD 3, CIVIC_SP 3, RA-20 2, T5b 2, BLM 1, COUNTY 1, FOREST 1, PICURIS 1, QUESTA 1, RA-10 1, RED RIVER 1, T1 1, T3 1, TSV 1. RECORDED COUNTING TRAP: a server-side groupByFieldsForStatistics count over 'OBJECTID' returns only 203 and reports BLM, FOREST and RA-10 as ZERO, because 'OBJECTID' is an ordinary NULLABLE integer column here and the true object-id field is 'OBJECTID_1'. The 238/27 figures come from paginating the features themselves and are the ones authored against. This is the registry entry's own runtime zoning source; point-in-polygon verified at Taos Plaza -> CBD.
Table verified against the sources above on 2026-07-28. Ordinances change, so check the current code before relying on any row for a decision.
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