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Centerville City Zoning Code

12.11 Planning

Documents

12.11.010 Purpose

The purpose of this Chapter is to identify planning documents which provide the policy foundation for this Title and to set forth the basis for preparing and adopting such planning documents.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2016-20 on 7/15/2016

12.11.020 Definitions

Certain words and phrases in this Chapter are defined in CZC 12.12 (Definitions).

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2016-20 on 7/15/2016

12.11.030 General Plan

  1. Purpose. In order to accomplish the purposes set forth in CZC 12.10 (Purpose and Applicability) and to comply with provisions of Utah Code §§  10-9a-401, et seq., regarding general plans, the City has prepared and adopted a comprehensive, long-range general plan for present and future needs of the City and for growth and development of land within the City. Such plan shall be known and referred to as the Centerville General Plan. The City may amend the General Plan as may be necessary and appropriate. The General Plan may provide for:
    1. Health, general welfare, safety, energy conservation, transportation, prosperity, civic activities, aesthetics, and recreational, educational, and cultural opportunities;
    2. Reduction of the waste of physical, financial, or human resources that result from either excessive congestion or excessive scattering of population;
    3. Efficient and economical use, conservation, and production of the supply of food and water, and drainage, sanitary, and other facilities and resources;
    4. Use of energy conservation and solar and renewable energy resources;
    5. Protection of urban development;
    6. Protection and promotion of air quality;
    7. Protection or promotion of moderate income housing;
    8. Historic preservation; 
    9. Identification of future uses of land that are likely to require an expansion or significant modification of services or facilities provided by each affected entity; and
    10. An official map, as provided in Utah Code §§ 72-5-401, et seq.
  2. Scope. The General Plan shall show the City’s recommendations for development of the territory covered by the General Plan, and may consist of text, maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter. The City Council shall determine the comprehensiveness, extent, and format of the General Plan and may include areas located outside City boundaries.
    1. The General Plan shall include a plan for moderate income housing as required by Utah Code § 10-9a-403. 
    2. The General Plan may include, among other things: 
      1. A land use element that:
        1. Designates the proposed general distribution and location and extent of uses of land for housing, business, industry, agriculture, recreation, education, public buildings and grounds, open space, and other categories of public and private uses of land as appropriate; and
        2. Includes a statement of the standards of population density and building intensity recommended for the various land use categories covered by the plan;
      2. A transportation and circulation element consisting of the general location and extent of existing and proposed freeways, arterial and collector streets, mass transit, and any other modes of transportation that are appropriate, all correlated with the land use element of the plan;
      3. An environmental element that addresses:
        1. The protection, conservation, development, and use of natural resources, including the quality of air, forests, soils, rivers and other waters, wildlife, minerals, and other natural resources; and
        2. The reclamation of land, flood control, prevention and control of the pollution of streams and other waters, regulation of the use of land on hillsides, stream channels and other environmentally sensitive areas, the prevention, control, and correction of the erosion of soils, protection of watersheds and wetlands, and the mapping of known geologic hazards;
      4. A public services and facilities element showing general plans for sewage, waste disposal, drainage, local utilities, rights-of-way, easements, and facilities for them, police and fire protection, and other public services;
      5. A rehabilitation, redevelopment, and conservation element consisting of plans and programs for:
        1. Historic preservation;
        2. Elimination of blight; and
        3. Redevelopment, including housing sites, business and industrial sites, and public building sites;
      6. An economic element composed of appropriate studies and an economic development plan that may include review of municipal revenue and expenditures, revenue sources, identification of base industry, primary and secondary market areas, employment, and retail sales activity;
      7. A parks, trails, and open space element that establishes a comprehensive plan for the development of parks and trails, and preservation of open space;
      8. Recommendations for implementing the General Plan, including the use of zoning and subdivision regulations, capital improvement plans, and other appropriate actions; and
      9. Any other elements the City considers appropriate.
  3. Legal Status. The General Plan shall be considered only as an advisory guide for growth and development of the land except as may be specifically provided otherwise in this Title.
  4. Public Uses to Conform. After the City Council has adopted a General Plan or any amendments to the General Plan, no street, park, or other public way, ground, place, or space, no publicly owned building or structure, and no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, may be constructed or authorized until and unless:
    1. It conforms to the General Plan, or 
    2. It has been considered by the Planning Commission and, after receiving the advice of the Planning Commission, approved by the City Council as an amendment to the General Plan.
  5. Amendment. The General Plan may be amended as provided in CZC 12.21.070.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2016-20 on 7/15/2016

12.11.040 Master Street Plan And Official Map

  1. Adoption. A Master Street Plan, adopted as part of the General Plan, shows existing and proposed roads at various right-of-way widths. The Master Street Plan shall serve as the basis for any official map adopted pursuant to Utah Code § 72-5-401, et seq.
  2. Amendments. Amendments to the Master Street Plan may be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in CZC 12.21.070.
  3. Effect of Official Map. 
    1. An official map does not: 
      1. Require a landowner to dedicate and construct a street as a condition of development approval, except under circumstances set forth in Subsection (2) below; or
      2. Require the City to immediately acquire property it has designated for eventual use as a public street.
    2. This Subsection (c) shall not prohibit the City from: 
      1. Requiring a landowner to take into account proposed streets in planning a development proposal; 
      2. Acquiring property through purchase, gift, voluntary dedication, or eminent domain; or 
      3. Requiring the dedication and improvement of a street if the street is found necessary by the City because of a proposed development.
    3. The official map of the City shall not be used to unconstitutionally prohibit the development of property designated for eventual use as a public street.
    4. The adopted official map shall be available for public inspection upon request.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2016-20 on 7/15/2016

12.11.050 Capital Facilities Plan

  1. Plan Adoption.  The City may adopt a capital facilities plan as provided in Utah Code §§  11-36a-101, et seq., as amended.
  2. Capital Facilities Availability. In the event a capital facilities plan is adopted, and capital facilities, as defined in such plan, are unavailable or inadequate to serve a proposed development project subject to the requirements of this Title, the capital facilities plan shall be used as a guide to determine when needed capital facilities may become available.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2016-20 on 7/15/2016

2016-20