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The Comprehensive Zoning and Land Use Ordinance is intended to create orderly, harmonious, and sound development in order to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the residents and real property owners within the boundaries of all the defined subdivisions designated and declared to be a part of the Alto Lakes Special Zoning District. Alto Lakes is a residential and recreational community located north of the village of Ruidoso, New Mexico. The District encompasses 2.5 square miles including:

Alto Lakes Golf & Country Club Facilities and Golf Course

The Alto Lakes subdivisions:

Alto Lakes Golf & Country Club                               Deer Park Woods Town homes
Alto Lakes Sites A & C (Town homes)                      Hemphill-braudt Condominium (was SB U1 B10 L1)
Country Club Condos A & B (Town homes)              High Mesa
Deer Park Meadows                                                   Lakeside Estates
Deer Park Valley                                                         Sierra Blanca
Deer Park Woods

Comprehensive Zoning and Land Use Ordinance

Ordinance compilation including amendments (effective September 19, 2008) (click here)

Ordinance 2009-01 effective September 19, 2008 (click here)

Ordinance compilation including amendments (effective October 4, 2007) (click here)

Zoning Map (click here): (attachment to Ordinance) 

Print Version: The Ordinance is 65 pages and the color Zoning Map is 11x17. The Ordinance, including Zoning Map and the list of proposed amendments,  may be ordered from the District. Send a check for $10.00 payable to ALSZD, along with your mailing address, to ALSZD, PO Box 578, Alto, NM 88312.

Note on zones: Zones described in the Ordinance, and shown on the Zone Map, are generally based upon the land uses described in the covenants for the subdivisions which lie within the Alto Lakes Special Zoning District. To our knowledge, the District Zone Map is the first and only visual rendering of permitted land uses since development was commenced nearly 40 years ago.

Comparison of Restrictions: Ordinance to Covenants (click here)

General legal differences between Ordinances and Covenants (click here)