First Substitute H.B. 285

Representative Dennis H. Iverson proposes to substitute the following bill:

1 APPROPRIATION FOR LAND USE PLANS
2 1998 GENERAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Sponsor: Dennis H. Iverson
5 AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES AND OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS;
6 APPROPRIATING $175,000 TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND BUDGET TO
7 DISTRIBUTE TO COUNTIES AND OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AS MATCHING
8 FUNDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF LAND USE PLANS
9 AND TO SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY TO CONDUCT WORKSHOPS ON LAND
10 PLANNING.
11 This act enacts uncodified material.
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
13 Section 1. Intent.
14 The Legislature finds that the value of property throughout the state is enhanced by
15 appropriate land-use planning by the counties and other local governments, that revenues to the
16 state depend to a significant extent on the value of the property generating those revenues, and that
17 the quality of land-use planning improves with training and education. It is the intent of the
18 Legislature in appropriating these funds to help meet the statewide need for training and education
19 of county, local, and state officials involved in land-use planning activities to improve the quality
20 of land-use planning.
21 Section 2. Appropriation.
22 (1) (a) There is appropriated from the General Fund for fiscal year 1998-99, $175,000 to
23 the Office of Planning and Budget.
24 (b) The Office of Planning and Budget shall:
25 (i) distribute up to $10,000 of the appropriated funds to Southern Utah University for use

1 by its Utah Center for Rural Life to conduct workshops on preparation of land-use plans, including
2 protection of private property rights and other rights attached to property;
3 (ii) determine, in conjunction with the Utah Association of Counties, the counties and
4 other local governments most qualified to receive the remainder of the appropriated funds to assist
5 in developing and implementing land-use plans, based on criteria established by the Office of
6 Planning and Budget;
7 (iii) consider the recommendations of the Governor's Rural Partnership Board in
8 determining the counties and other local governments most qualified to receive funds under
9 Subsection (1)(b)(ii);
10 (iv) receive the recommendation of the Governor's Local Government Comprehensive
11 Planning Project Steering Committee in establishing the criteria that are the basis of the
12 determination of the counties and other local governments most qualified to receive funds under
13 Subsection (1)(b)(ii); and
14 (v) distribute the remaining funds to counties and other local governments that:
15 (A) meet the criteria established by the Office of Planning and Budget;
16 (B) match the amount distributed by the Office of Planning and Budget in funds or in kind;
17 (C) agree to encourage county, local, and state officials involved with land-use planning
18 to attend the workshops; and
19 (D) agree to review and, if necessary, revise the comprehensive general plan at least
20 annually.
21 (c) In planning and presenting the workshops provided under Subsection (1)(b)(i),
22 Southern Utah University, through its Utah Center for Rural Life, may involve county and other
23 local government officials who are preparing or have completed a land-use plan.
24 (2) These appropriations are nonlapsing.


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