Utah Code § 10-20-501

Enactment of land use regulation, land use decision, or development agreement
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(1) Only a legislative body, as the body authorized to weigh policy considerations, may enact a
land use regulation.
(2)
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), a legislative body may enact a land use regulation
only by ordinance.
(b) A legislative body may, by ordinance or resolution, enact a land use regulation that imposes a
fee.

(3) A legislative body shall ensure that a land use regulation is consistent with the purposes of this
chapter.
(4)
(a) A legislative body shall adopt a land use regulation to:
(i) create or amend a zoning district under Subsection 10-20-503(1)(a); and
(ii) designate general uses allowed in each zoning district.
(b) A land use authority may establish or modify other restrictions or requirements other than
those described in Subsection (4)(a), including the configuration or modification of uses or
density, through a land use decision that applies criteria or policy elements that a land use
regulation establishes or describes.
(5)
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (5)(b) or (5)(c), a municipality shall publish on the
municipality's website:
(i) all of the municipality's land use regulations; and
(ii) a fee schedule that lists all of the municipality's fees related to a land use application, land
use permit, or land use regulation, including development review fees and impact fees.
(b) A municipality that does not have a maintained and active website shall provide for inspection
of the information described in Subsection (5)(a) at the municipality's place of business during
normal business hours.
(c) A municipality may comply with Subsection (5)(a) by:
(i) posting a link on the municipality's website to a separate webpage or third-party website
where the land use regulations or fee schedule described in Subsection (5)(a) are posted;
and
(ii) submitting a new or modified land use regulation or fee schedule described in Subsection
(5)(a) to the third-party website within six months after the day on which the legislative body
adopts the new or modified land use regulation or fee schedule.
(6) A municipality may not adopt a land use regulation or development agreement, or make a land
use decision, that restricts the type of crop that may be grown in an area that is:
(a) zoned agricultural; or
(b) assessed under Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 5, Farmland Assessment Act.
(7) A municipal land use regulation pertaining to an airport or an airport influence area, as that term
is defined in Section 72-10-401, is subject to Title 72, Chapter 10, Part 4, Airport Zoning Act.

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