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H.B. 221

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AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIAL

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PROTECTION AREA AMENDMENTS

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2008 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: John G. Mathis

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Senate Sponsor: Margaret Dayton

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             8      LONG TITLE
             9      General Description:
             10          This bill modifies provisions relating to agriculture protection areas.
             11      Highlighted Provisions:
             12          This bill:
             13          .    requires county and municipal planning commissions to identify and consider
             14      agriculture protection areas in drafting a land use element of a general plan and to
             15      avoid uses that are inconsistent with or detrimental to agriculture in those areas;
             16          .    clarifies that an owner of land in an agriculture protection area or industrial
             17      protection area may withdraw some or all of the owner's land from the area;
             18          .    prohibits a county or municipal legislative body from charging a fee for a petition to
             19      remove land from an agriculture protection area or industrial protection area; and
             20          . S. [ prohibits ] requires .S state agencies and political subdivisions S. [ from ] to
             20a      consider impacts on agriculture protection areas and reasonably comparable alternatives
             20b      when .S designating a transportation
             21      corridor S. [ H. as a final, preferred alternative .H over land in an agriculture protection area
             21a      unless there is no other
             22      reasonably comparable alternative
] and to make reasonable efforts to minimize or eliminate

             22a      detrimental impacts on agriculture .S .
             23      Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
             24          None
             25      Other Special Clauses:
             26          None
             27      Utah Code Sections Affected:


             28      AMENDS:
             29          10-9a-403, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 245 and renumbered and
             30      amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 254
             31          17-27a-403, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 245 and renumbered and
             32      amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 254
             33          17-41-306, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2006, Chapter 194
             34          17-41-406, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2006, Chapter 194
             35     
             36      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             37          Section 1. Section 10-9a-403 is amended to read:
             38           10-9a-403. Plan preparation.
             39          (1) (a) The planning commission shall provide notice, as provided in Section
             40      10-9a-203 , of its intent to make a recommendation to the municipal legislative body for a
             41      general plan or a comprehensive general plan amendment when the planning commission
             42      initiates the process of preparing its recommendation.
             43          (b) The planning commission shall make and recommend to the legislative body a
             44      proposed general plan for the area within the municipality.
             45          (c) The plan may include areas outside the boundaries of the municipality if, in the
             46      planning commission's judgment, those areas are related to the planning of the municipality's
             47      territory.
             48          (d) Except as otherwise provided by law or with respect to a municipality's power of
             49      eminent domain, when the plan of a municipality involves territory outside the boundaries of
             50      the municipality, the municipality may not take action affecting that territory without the
             51      concurrence of the county or other municipalities affected.
             52          (2) (a) At a minimum, the proposed general plan, with the accompanying maps, charts,
             53      and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall include the planning commission's
             54      recommendations for the following plan elements:
             55          (i) a land use element that:
             56          (A) designates the long-term goals and the proposed extent, general distribution, and
             57      location of land for housing, business, industry, agriculture, recreation, education, public
             58      buildings and grounds, open space, and other categories of public and private uses of land as


             59      appropriate; and
             60          (B) may include a statement of the projections for and standards of population density
             61      and building intensity recommended for the various land use categories covered by the plan;
             62          (ii) a transportation and traffic circulation element consisting of the general location
             63      and extent of existing and proposed freeways, arterial and collector streets, mass transit, and
             64      any other modes of transportation that the planning commission considers appropriate, all
             65      correlated with the population projections and the proposed land use element of the general
             66      plan; and
             67          (iii) for cities, an estimate of the need for the development of additional moderate
             68      income housing within the city, and a plan to provide a realistic opportunity to meet estimated
             69      needs for additional moderate income housing if long-term projections for land use and
             70      development occur.
             71          (b) In drafting the moderate income housing element, the planning commission:
             72          (i) shall consider the Legislature's determination that cities should facilitate a
             73      reasonable opportunity for a variety of housing, including moderate income housing:
             74          (A) to meet the needs of people desiring to live there; and
             75          (B) to allow persons with moderate incomes to benefit from and fully participate in all
             76      aspects of neighborhood and community life; and
             77          (ii) may include an analysis of why the recommended means, techniques, or
             78      combination of means and techniques provide a realistic opportunity for the development of
             79      moderate income housing within the planning horizon, which means or techniques may include
             80      a recommendation to:
             81          (A) rezone for densities necessary to assure the production of moderate income
             82      housing;
             83          (B) facilitate the rehabilitation or expansion of infrastructure that will encourage the
             84      construction of moderate income housing;
             85          (C) encourage the rehabilitation of existing uninhabitable housing stock into moderate
             86      income housing;
             87          (D) consider general fund subsidies to waive construction related fees that are
             88      otherwise generally imposed by the city;
             89          (E) consider utilization of state or federal funds or tax incentives to promote the


             90      construction of moderate income housing;
             91          (F) consider utilization of programs offered by the Utah Housing Corporation within
             92      that agency's funding capacity; and
             93          (G) consider utilization of affordable housing programs administered by the
             94      Department of Community and Culture.
             95          (c) In drafting the land use element, the planning commission shall:
             96          (i) identify and consider each agriculture protection area within the municipality; and
             97          (ii) avoid proposing a use of land within an agriculture protection area that is
             98      inconsistent with or detrimental to the use of the land for agriculture.
             99          (3) The proposed general plan may include:
             100          (a) an environmental element that addresses:
             101          (i) the protection, conservation, development, and use of natural resources, including
             102      the quality of air, forests, soils, rivers and other waters, harbors, fisheries, wildlife, minerals,
             103      and other natural resources; and
             104          (ii) the reclamation of land, flood control, prevention and control of the pollution of
             105      streams and other waters, regulation of the use of land on hillsides, stream channels and other
             106      environmentally sensitive areas, the prevention, control, and correction of the erosion of soils,
             107      protection of watersheds and wetlands, and the mapping of known geologic hazards;
             108          (b) a public services and facilities element showing general plans for sewage, water,
             109      waste disposal, drainage, public utilities, rights-of-way, easements, and facilities for them,
             110      police and fire protection, and other public services;
             111          (c) a rehabilitation, redevelopment, and conservation element consisting of plans and
             112      programs for:
             113          (i) historic preservation; [and]
             114          (ii) the diminution or elimination of blight; and
             115          (iii) redevelopment of land, including housing sites, business and industrial sites, and
             116      public building sites;
             117          (d) an economic element composed of appropriate studies and forecasts, as well as an
             118      economic development plan, which may include review of existing and projected municipal
             119      revenue and expenditures, revenue sources, identification of basic and secondary industry,
             120      primary and secondary market areas, employment, and retail sales activity;


             121          (e) recommendations for implementing all or any portion of the general plan, including
             122      the use of land use ordinances, capital improvement plans, community development and
             123      promotion, and any other appropriate action;
             124          (f) provisions addressing any of the matters listed in Subsection 10-9a-401 (2); and
             125          (g) any other element the municipality considers appropriate.
             126          Section 2. Section 17-27a-403 is amended to read:
             127           17-27a-403. Plan preparation.
             128          (1) (a) The planning commission shall provide notice, as provided in Section
             129      17-27a-203 , of its intent to make a recommendation to the county legislative body for a general
             130      plan or a comprehensive general plan amendment when the planning commission initiates the
             131      process of preparing its recommendation.
             132          (b) The planning commission shall make and recommend to the legislative body a
             133      proposed general plan for the unincorporated area within the county.
             134          (c) (i) The plan may include planning for incorporated areas if, in the planning
             135      commission's judgment, they are related to the planning of the unincorporated territory or of
             136      the county as a whole.
             137          (ii) Elements of the county plan that address incorporated areas are not an official plan
             138      or part of a municipal plan for any municipality, unless it is recommended by the municipal
             139      planning commission and adopted by the governing body of the municipality.
             140          (2) (a) At a minimum, the proposed general plan, with the accompanying maps, charts,
             141      and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall include the planning commission's
             142      recommendations for the following plan elements:
             143          (i) a land use element that:
             144          (A) designates the long-term goals and the proposed extent, general distribution, and
             145      location of land for housing, business, industry, agriculture, recreation, education, public
             146      buildings and grounds, open space, and other categories of public and private uses of land as
             147      appropriate; and
             148          (B) may include a statement of the projections for and standards of population density
             149      and building intensity recommended for the various land use categories covered by the plan;
             150          (ii) a transportation and traffic circulation element consisting of the general location
             151      and extent of existing and proposed freeways, arterial and collector streets, mass transit, and


             152      any other modes of transportation that the planning commission considers appropriate, all
             153      correlated with the population projections and the proposed land use element of the general
             154      plan; and
             155          (iii) an estimate of the need for the development of additional moderate income
             156      housing within the unincorporated area of the county, and a plan to provide a realistic
             157      opportunity to meet estimated needs for additional moderate income housing if long-term
             158      projections for land use and development occur.
             159          (b) In drafting the moderate income housing element, the planning commission:
             160          (i) shall consider the Legislature's determination that counties should facilitate a
             161      reasonable opportunity for a variety of housing, including moderate income housing:
             162          (A) to meet the needs of people desiring to live there; and
             163          (B) to allow persons with moderate incomes to benefit from and fully participate in all
             164      aspects of neighborhood and community life; and
             165          (ii) may include an analysis of why the recommended means, techniques, or
             166      combination of means and techniques provide a realistic opportunity for the development of
             167      moderate income housing within the planning horizon, which means or techniques may include
             168      a recommendation to:
             169          (A) rezone for densities necessary to assure the production of moderate income
             170      housing;
             171          (B) facilitate the rehabilitation or expansion of infrastructure that will encourage the
             172      construction of moderate income housing;
             173          (C) encourage the rehabilitation of existing uninhabitable housing stock into moderate
             174      income housing;
             175          (D) consider general fund subsidies to waive construction related fees that are
             176      otherwise generally imposed by the county;
             177          (E) consider utilization of state or federal funds or tax incentives to promote the
             178      construction of moderate income housing;
             179          (F) consider utilization of programs offered by the Utah Housing Corporation within
             180      that agency's funding capacity; and
             181          (G) consider utilization of affordable housing programs administered by the
             182      Department of Community and Culture.


             183          (c) In drafting the land use element, the planning commission shall:
             184          (i) identify and consider each agriculture protection area within the unincorporated area
             185      of the county; and
             186          (ii) avoid proposing a use of land within an agriculture protection area that is
             187      inconsistent with or detrimental to the use of the land for agriculture.
             188          (3) The proposed general plan may include:
             189          (a) an environmental element that addresses:
             190          (i) the protection, conservation, development, and use of natural resources, including
             191      the quality of air, forests, soils, rivers and other waters, harbors, fisheries, wildlife, minerals,
             192      and other natural resources; and
             193          (ii) the reclamation of land, flood control, prevention and control of the pollution of
             194      streams and other waters, regulation of the use of land on hillsides, stream channels and other
             195      environmentally sensitive areas, the prevention, control, and correction of the erosion of soils,
             196      protection of watersheds and wetlands, and the mapping of known geologic hazards;
             197          (b) a public services and facilities element showing general plans for sewage, water,
             198      waste disposal, drainage, public utilities, rights-of-way, easements, and facilities for them,
             199      police and fire protection, and other public services;
             200          (c) a rehabilitation, redevelopment, and conservation element consisting of plans and
             201      programs for:
             202          (i) historic preservation; [and]
             203          (ii) the diminution or elimination of blight; and
             204          (iii) redevelopment of land, including housing sites, business and industrial sites, and
             205      public building sites;
             206          (d) an economic element composed of appropriate studies and forecasts, as well as an
             207      economic development plan, which may include review of existing and projected county
             208      revenue and expenditures, revenue sources, identification of basic and secondary industry,
             209      primary and secondary market areas, employment, and retail sales activity;
             210          (e) recommendations for implementing all or any portion of the general plan, including
             211      the use of land use ordinances, capital improvement plans, community development and
             212      promotion, and any other appropriate action;
             213          (f) provisions addressing any of the matters listed in Subsection 17-27a-401 (2); and


             214          (g) any other element the county considers appropriate.
             215          Section 3. Section 17-41-306 is amended to read:
             216           17-41-306. Adding land to or removing land from an agriculture protection area
             217      or industrial protection area.
             218          (1) (a) Any owner may add land to an existing agriculture protection area or industrial
             219      protection area, as the case may be, by:
             220          (i) filing a proposal with:
             221          (A) the county legislative body, if the agriculture protection area or industrial
             222      protection area and the land to be added are within the unincorporated part of the county; or
             223          (B) the municipal legislative body, if the agriculture protection area or industrial
             224      protection area and the land to be added are within a city or town; and
             225          (ii) obtaining the approval of the applicable legislative body for the addition of the land
             226      to the area.
             227          (b) The applicable legislative body shall comply with the provisions for creating an
             228      agriculture protection area or industrial protection area, as the case may be, in determining
             229      whether or not to accept the proposal.
             230          (2) (a) Any owner of land within an agriculture protection area or industrial protection
             231      area may remove any or all of the land from [an] the agriculture protection area or industrial
             232      protection area, respectively, by filing a petition for removal [of the land from the agriculture
             233      protection area or industrial protection area, respectively,] with the applicable legislative body.
             234          (b) (i) The applicable legislative body:
             235          (A) shall:
             236          [(A)] (I) grant the petition for removal of land from an agriculture protection area or
             237      industrial protection area, as the case may be, even if removal of the land would result in an
             238      agriculture protection area or industrial protection area of less than the number of acres
             239      established by the applicable legislative body as the minimum under Section 17-41-301 ; and
             240          [(B)] (II) in order to give constructive notice of the removal to all persons who have,
             241      may acquire, or may seek to acquire an interest in land in or adjacent to the agriculture
             242      protection area or industrial protection area and the land removed from the agriculture
             243      protection area or industrial protection area, file a legal description of the revised boundaries of
             244      the agriculture protection area or industrial protection area with the county recorder of deeds


             245      and the affected planning commission[.]; and
             246          (B) may not charge a fee in connection with a petition to remove land from an
             247      agriculture protection area or an industrial protection area.
             248          (ii) The remaining land in the agriculture protection area or industrial protection area is
             249      still an agriculture protection area or industrial protection area, respectively.
             250          (3) (a) If a municipality annexes any land that is part of an agriculture protection area
             251      or industrial protection area located in the unincorporated part of the county, the county
             252      legislative body shall, within 30 days after the land is annexed, review the feasibility of that
             253      land remaining in the agriculture protection area or industrial protection area according to the
             254      procedures and requirements of Section 17-41-307 .
             255          (b) The county legislative body shall remove the annexed land from the agriculture
             256      protection area or industrial protection area, as the case may be, if:
             257          (i) the county legislative body concludes, after the review under Section 17-41-307 ,
             258      that removal is appropriate; and
             259          (ii) the owners of all the annexed land that is within the agriculture protection area or
             260      industrial protection area consent in writing to the removal.
             261          (c) Removal of land from an agriculture protection area or industrial protection area
             262      under this Subsection (3) does not affect whether that land may be:
             263          (i) included in a proposal under Section 17-41-301 to create an agriculture protection
             264      area or industrial protection area within the municipality; or
             265          (ii) added to an existing agriculture protection area or industrial protection area within
             266      the municipality under Subsection (1).
             267          Section 4. Section 17-41-406 is amended to read:
             268           17-41-406. Restrictions on state development projects.
             269          (1) Each state agency that plans any development project that might affect land within
             270      an agriculture protection area or industrial protection area shall submit its development plan to:
             271          (a) the advisory board of the agriculture protection area or industrial protection area,
             272      respectively; and
             273          (b) in the case of an agriculture protection area, the commissioner of agriculture and
             274      food.
             275          (2) The commissioner of agriculture and food, in the case of an agriculture protection


             276      area, and the advisory board shall:
             277          (a) review the state agency's proposed development plan; and
             278          (b) recommend any modifications to the development project that would protect the
             279      integrity of the agriculture protection area or industrial protection area, as the case may be, or
             280      that would protect the agriculture protection area from nonfarm encroachment or the industrial
             281      protection area from nonindustrial encroachment.
             282          (3) S. [ A ] Each .S state agency S. [ or ] and .S political subdivision S. [ may not
             282a      designate or propose ] of the state that designates or proposes to designate .S a
             283      transportation corridor S. [ H. as a final, preferred alternative .H on land within an agriculture
             283a      protection area unless there is no
] shall:

             283b          (a) consider:
             283c          (i) whether the transportation corridor would:
             283d          (A) be located on land that is included within an agriculture protection area; or
             283e          (B) interfere with agriculture production activities on land within an agriculture
             283f      protection area; and
             283g          (ii) each .S other
             284      reasonably comparable alternative to the placement of the corridor on S. [ the ] .S land within S.
             284a      [ the ] an .S
             285      agriculture protection area S. ; and
             285a          (b) make reasonable efforts to minimize or eliminate any detrimental impact on
             285b      agriculture that may result from the designation of a transportation corridor .S .




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