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Political subdivisions and schools must follow applicable municipal land use ordinances, with several school-related limits and exceptions.
This section defines commuter rail terms and limits municipal jurisdiction over certain state, federal, and commuter-rail-related property, while allowing limited coordination and notice relief in a specific state-land disposal process.
A municipality must prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-range general plan, and it may set the plan’s comprehensiveness, extent, and format subject to Section 10-20-404.
State officials, departments, and agencies must promptly provide a municipality with requested data, information, technical assistance, and advice, unless disclosure is barred by the Government Records Access and Management Act.
A specified municipality’s general plan must include a moderate income housing element meeting Section 10-21-201. A municipality that becomes a specified municipality must amend its general plan by the stated August 1 deadline.
The planning commission must give notice and recommend a proposed general plan, and the plan may cover nearby areas only in some cases. If the plan affects land outside municipal boundaries, the municipality generally may not act on that territory without county or other affected municipalities’ concurrence, subject to
The planning commission must hold a public hearing and give notice before forwarding a proposed general plan or amendment to the legislative body; the legislative body may then adopt, reject, or revise it.
The general plan is only an advisory guide for land use decisions, except as provided in Section 10-20-407.
After a general plan is adopted, certain public properties may not be constructed or authorized unless they conform to the current general plan.
Municipalities may adopt an official map, and the map cannot by itself require immediate street dedication or immediate acquisition of designated street property, except as provided in one cited subsection.
This section limits who may enact land use regulations, requires municipal website publication of land use rules and related fees, and bars crop-type restrictions in agricultural or farmland-assessed areas.
A planning commission must give notice, hold a public hearing, consider written objections if applicable, and recommend a proposed land use regulation to the legislative body. The legislative body must consider recommended proposals, may adopt or reject them after notice and a public meeting, and may in some cases act
A legislative body may amend certain zoning or land use provisions, but only after first submitting the amendment to the planning commission for its recommendation.
Temporary land use regulations. Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b) , a municipal legislative body may, without prior consideration of or recommendation from the planning commission, enact an ordinance establishing a temporary land use
The legislative body may create zoning districts and regulate land use and buildings within them; municipalities may adopt floodplain or geologic-hazard ordinances and may exempt a subdivision for public utility infrastructure.
A municipality may adopt conditional-use ordinances, but it may not impose conflicting requirements. A land use authority must approve a conditional use when reasonable mitigation conditions are available, must put proposed conditions on the record, may deny the use if substantial mitigation is not possible, and a legi
Municipalities must include a process for classifying new or unlisted business uses, reviewing requests, allowing appeals, and updating zoning ordinances for approved uses.
A municipality may enter into development agreements, but the agreements cannot block future land-use regulation powers, force future zoning changes, permit otherwise prohibited land uses without the required approval process, require development agreements in certain compliant cases, or be recorded against private pro
If a municipality uses a citizen-led process for creating a local historic district or area, it must follow notice, ballot, and voting-threshold rules.
A municipality may not set a single-family limit below the required minimum.
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