{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-63n-23-603","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 63N-23-603","heading":"Applicability, requirements, and limitations.","body":"(1) A home ownership promotion zone shall promote the following objectives:\n(a) increasing availability of housing, including affordable housing;\n(b) promotion of home ownership;\n(c) overcoming development impediments and market conditions that render an affordable housing development cost prohibitive absent the incentives resulting from a home ownership promotion zone; and\n(d) conservation of water resources through efficient land use.\n(2) In order to accomplish the objectives described in Subsection (1), a county shall ensure that:\n(a) land inside the proposed home ownership promotion zone is zoned as residential, with at least six planned housing units per acre;\n(b) at least 60% of the proposed housing units within the home ownership promotion zone are affordable housing units; and\n(c) all of the proposed housing units within the home ownership promotion zone are deed restricted to require owner occupation for at least five years.\n(3) A county may restrict short term rentals in a home ownership promotion zone.\n(4) A county may not create a home ownership promotion zone if:\n(a) the proposed home ownership promotion zone would overlap with a school district and:\n(i)\n(A) the school district has more than one municipality within the school district's boundaries; and\n(B) the school district already has 100 acres designated as home ownership promotion zone within the school district's boundaries; or\n(ii)\n(A) the school district has one municipality within the school district's boundaries; and\n(B) the school district already has 50 acres designated as home ownership promotion zone within the school district's boundaries; or\n(b) the area in the proposed home ownership promotion zone would overlap with:\n(i) a project area, as that term is defined in Section 17C-1-102, and created under Title 17C, Chapter 1, Agency Operations, until the project area is dissolved in accordance with Section 17C-1-702; or\n(ii) an existing housing and transit reinvestment zone.","path":["Title 63N Economic Opportunity Act","Chapter 63N-23 Housing Investment And Opportunity Act","Part 63N-23-6 Home Ownership Promotion Zone For Counties"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title63N/Chapter23/63N-23-S603.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:34Z","sha256":"c7955161ebcd6b0a6254ed044be3aecc42e527dbeb2ade60a025f7027625c30d","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-63n-23-602","next":"us-ut/utah-code-63n-23-604"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}