La Plata County, CO Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 73-2 of the La Plata County Code limits how many business vehicles can be regularly parked on a lot that carries an accessory use in unincorporated La Plata County, Colorado. The limit rises with the permit tier. With no land use permit, the accessory use cannot include storage of heavy equipment and is limited to one two-axle business vehicle regularly parked on the lot. With an administrative land use permit the cap is two two-axle business vehicles, and heavy equipment storage is still barred. Only the minor land use permit tier brings heavy equipment onto the lot: no more than two business vehicles regularly parked there, including heavy equipment.

The vehicle cap is one of several conditions that decide which tier an operation lands in. At the no-permit tier the accessory use is limited to 400 square feet inside the dwelling unit or attached garage, with no outside storage. The administrative tier allows 800 square feet and up to 500 square feet of screened exterior storage. The minor tier allows up to 1,000 square feet of screened exterior storage and no more than two employees, agents, or assistants who are not residents of the dwelling unit.

Every accessory use must also be owned and operated by a resident of the dwelling unit and must not produce unmitigated adverse impacts detectable at the property line, as set forth in paragraph 70-5.III.B. Section 73-2 is a specific-use standard in chapter 73 of the Land Use Code; it counts the business vehicles that go with an accessory use. It was amended by Resolution No. 2022-01, effective January 4, 2022.