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Weld County Code Ordinance 2025-15
In the Matter of Repealing and Reenacting, with Amendments, Chapter 23 Zoning
of the Weld County Code
Be it ordained by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State
of Colorado:
Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, pursuant to
Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of
administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and
Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners, on December 28, 2000, adopted
Weld County Code Ordinance 2000-1, enacting a comprehensive Code for the County of
Weld, including the codification of all previously adopted ordinances of a general and
permanent nature enacted on or before said date of adoption, and
Whereas, the Weld County Code is in need of revision and clarification with regard to
procedures, terms, and requirements therein.
Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of
Weld, State of Colorado, that Chapter 23 of the Weld County Code be, and hereby is,
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows.
Chapter 23
Zoning
Amend Sec. 23-1-90. - Definitions.
The following specific words and phrases, when appearing in this Chapter in
uppercase letters, shall have the meanings stated in this Section:
Delete BUILDING UNIT. As defined in Chapter 21, Article V.
Insert OCCUPIABLE SPACE: As defined in Chapter 2 of the International Building Code,
as adopted in Chapter 29 of this code.
Amend Sec. 23-4-700. Minimum distance from oil and gas facilities in all zone
districts.
No BUILDING UNIT containing OCCUPIABLE SPACE shall be constructed within two
hundred fifty (250) feet of any OIL AND GAS FACILITY, nor within fifty (50)seventy-five
(75) feet of any plugged and abandoned oil and gas well. No other BUILDING shall be
constructed within fifty (50) seventy-five (75) feet of any OIL AND GAS FACILITY, nor
any plugged and abandoned oil and gas well. This provision shall not apply to the
expansion of a BUILDING permitted or existing as of December 30, 2022, provided such
expansion does not increase the BUILDING footprint by more than fifty percent (50%).
No VARIANCE from this section shall be granted such that it would allow any BUILDING
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to be constructed within fifty (50) seventy-five (75) feet of any OIL AND GAS FACILITY,
nor any plugged and abandoned oil and gas well.
Be it further ordained by the Board that the Clerk to the Board be, and hereby is, directed
to arrange for Municode to supplement the Weld County Code with the amendments
contained herein, to coincide with chapters, articles, divisions, sections, and subsections
as they currently exist within said Code; and to resolve any inconsistencies regarding
capitalization, grammar, and numbering or placement of chapters, articles, divisions,
sections, and subsections in said Code.
Be it further ordained by the Board, if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence,
clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held or decided to be
unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
hereof. The Board of County Commissioners hereby declares that it would have enacted
this Ordinance in each and every section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, and
phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases might be declared to be unconstitutional or
invalid.
Publication: September 24, 2025
First Reading: October 20, 2025
Publication: October 24, 2025, in the Greeley Tribune
Second Reading: November 3, 2025
Publication: November 7, 2025, in the Greeley Tribune
Final Reading: November 17, 2025
Publication: November 21, 2025, in the Greeley Tribune
Effective: November 26, 2025
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