10-9a-102. Purposes -- General land use authority.
(1) The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the health, safety, and welfare, and
promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, convenience, and
aesthetics of each municipality and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to protect
the tax base, to secure economy in governmental expenditures, to foster the state's agricultural
and other industries, to protect both urban and nonurban development, to protect and ensure
access to sunlight for solar energy devices, to provide fundamental fairness in land use
regulation, and to protect property values.
(2) To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, municipalities may enact all ordinances,
resolutions, and rules and may enter into other forms of land use controls and development
agreements that they consider necessary or appropriate for the use and development of land
within the municipality, including ordinances, resolutions, rules, restrictive covenants,
easements, and development agreements governing uses, density, open spaces, structures,
buildings, energy efficiency, light and air, air quality, transportation and public or alternative
transportation, infrastructure, street and building orientation and width requirements, public
facilities, fundamental fairness in land use regulation, considerations of surrounding land uses
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.
Amended by Chapter 363, 2007 General Session
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