{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-10-20-501","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 10-20-501","heading":"Enactment of land use regulation, land use decision, or development agreement.","body":"(1) Only a legislative body, as the body authorized to weigh policy considerations, may enact a land use regulation.\n(2)\n(a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), a legislative body may enact a land use regulation only by ordinance.\n(b) A legislative body may, by ordinance or resolution, enact a land use regulation that imposes a fee.\n(3) A legislative body shall ensure that a land use regulation is consistent with the purposes of this chapter.\n(4)\n(a) A legislative body shall adopt a land use regulation to:\n(i) create or amend a zoning district under Subsection 10-20-503(1)(a); and\n(ii) designate general uses allowed in each zoning district.\n(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.\n(5)\n(a) Except as provided in Subsection (5)(b) or (5)(c), a municipality shall publish on the municipality's website:\n(i) all of the municipality's land use regulations; and\n(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.\n(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.\n(c) A municipality may comply with Subsection (5)(a) by:\n(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\n(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.\n(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:\n(a) zoned agricultural; or\n(b) assessed under Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 5, Farmland Assessment Act.\n(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.","path":["Title 10 Utah Municipal Code","Chapter 10-20 Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act","Part 10-20-5 Land Use Regulations - General Processes"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title10/Chapter20/10-20-S501.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"26335106afec07010d51b4b1d47d8f34e8729a0ba7a2112c7b51153d4d8e8004","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-10-20-408","next":"us-ut/utah-code-10-20-502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}