17-27a-102 - Purposes -- General land use authority. - Utah Statutes

17-27a-102. Purposes -- General land use authority.
(1) (a) The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the health, safety, and welfare, andpromote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, convenience, andaesthetics of each county and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to protect the taxbase, to secure economy in governmental expenditures, to foster the state's agricultural and otherindustries, to protect both urban and nonurban development, to protect and ensure access tosunlight for solar energy devices, to provide fundamental fairness in land use regulation, and toprotect property values.
(b) To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, counties may enact all ordinances,resolutions, and rules and may enter into other forms of land use controls and developmentagreements that they consider necessary or appropriate for the use and development of landwithin the unincorporated area of the county, including ordinances, resolutions, rules, restrictivecovenants, easements, and development agreements governing uses, density, open spaces,structures, buildings, energy-efficiency, light and air, air quality, transportation and public oralternative transportation, infrastructure, street and building orientation and width requirements,public facilities, fundamental fairness in land use regulation, considerations of surrounding landuses and the balance of the foregoing purposes with a landowner's private property interests,height and location of vegetation, trees, and landscaping, unless expressly prohibited by law.
(2) Each county shall comply with the mandatory provisions of this part before anyagreement or contract to provide goods, services, or municipal-type services to any storagefacility or transfer facility for high-level nuclear waste, or greater than class C radioactive waste,may be executed or implemented.

Amended by Chapter 363, 2007 General Session