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Property Maintenance in Longmont, CO (2026)

3 verified property maintenance rules for Longmont, Colorado, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.

Verified from official government sources

Property Blight

Longmont expands the International Property Maintenance Code's dangerous-structure criteria with local additions covering structural failure risk, wracked or buckled walls, and buildings that have lost required strength or fire resistance.

Longmont Dangerous Building Standards

Significant Restrictions

Longmont Municipal Code § 16.20.100

12.Any portion or member or appurtenance thereof is likely to fail, or to become detached or dislodged, or to collapse and thereby injure persons or damage property.... 15.The building or structure, exclusive of the foundation, shows 33 percent or more damage or deterioration of its supporting members, or 50 percent damage or deterioration of its non-supporting members, enclosing or outside wal...

Vacant Lot Maintenance

Once Longmont's city inspector finds evidence of rat infestation on a vacant lot, vacant building or occupied residence, § 9.16.080 requires the owner or occupant to eradicate the rats and stop them from migrating to neighboring property.

Longmont Vacant Lot Rat Infestation Duty

Some Restrictions

Longmont Municipal Code § 9.16.080

Whenever the city inspector notifies the owner or occupant of a property that evidence of rat infestation has been found, whether it is a business building or private residence, vacant building or vacant lot; the owner or occupant shall be required to rid his or her property of rats, either by satisfactory extermination methods of his or her own or by contracting for the services of an extermin...

Snow & Sidewalk Clearing

Longmont gives owners, managers, tenants of an entire premises, and adult occupants of single-family homes 24 hours after snow or ice stops falling to clear the abutting public sidewalk to at least a four-foot width.

Longmont sidewalk snow removal deadline

Some Restrictions

Longmont Municipal Code § 9.04.130

Within 24 hours after any snow or ice stops falling on a public sidewalk, it is the duty of: 1. Every owner and manager of property abutting the sidewalk; 2. Every tenant leasing an entire premises abutting the sidewalk; and 3. Every adult occupant of a single-family dwelling abutting the sidewalk to remove or cause the removal from public sidewalks abutting the property accumulated snow and ic...

Looking for Boulder County county-wide rules?

County ordinances apply to unincorporated areas and may supplement Longmont city rules.

Property Maintenance in Boulder County