This Land Use Code is intended, in part, to implement the Pitkin County Comprehensive Plan. The preservation of the rural and agricultural character of Pitkin County is a primary goal of the Pitkin County Master Plans. Consistent with this goal, an urban growth boundary has been defined around each of the City of Aspen and the Town of Basalt. Additional urban growth boundaries, or modifications of the existing boundaries, may be adopted in the future. In order to implement the goal of protecting rural and agricultural character, this Land Use Code groups the available zone districts in Pitkin County into those generally intended for use within urban growth boundaries (and the existing townsite of Redstone) and those generally intended for use outside those boundaries. For purposes of this distinction, the unincorporated Townsite of Redstone is treated as a non-Rural Area, and is grouped with areas inside of urban growth boundaries. A map of the adopted urban growth boundaries is shown in Figure 3-1.