3-40-100 AR-10 (Agricultural/ Residential-10 Acre)

(a) Intent

• The AR-10 district is intended to accommodate small scale agricultural activities and large-lot residential development that maintains the rural character and appearance of the land. Because few agricultural activities can be accomplished on a lot of ten (10) acres, the majority of such land will be used for residential uses. Residential development should be clustered and/or grouped at the edges of valleys or wooded areas in order to minimize the visual disruption of the natural landforms and to avoid the appearance of unrelated homes spread randomly across the land.

(b) Locational Criteria

• Lands zoned AR-10 are located primarily adjacent to the municipalities of Aspen and Basalt, and along the Highway 82 corridor and in scattered sites elsewhere in the County. The AR-10 zone district could be appropriate for use outside of urban growth boundaries where the applicable Pitkin County Master Plan calls for an increase in residential density, or for residential development on ten (10) acre parcels.