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 documents.

(Code 2023, § 10-2-1; Ord. No. 2017-54, 12-13-2017)

Certain words and phrases in this chapter are defined in HCC chapter 10-3.

(Code 2023, § 10-2-2; Ord. No. 2017-54, 12-13-2017)

1. Purpose. In order to accomplish the purposes set forth in HCC chapter 10-1 and to comply with provisions of U.C.A. 1953, title 10 ch. 9A, pt. 4 (U.C.A. 1953, § 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 city 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 U.C.A. 1953, §§ 10-9a-407 and 72-5-401.
2. Scope. The general plan shall show the city's recommendations for development of the territory covered by the 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:
      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;
         2. Includes an inventory of existing residential uses, including lot sizes, types of units, units that have been constructed, and units that have been approved but not yet built;
         3. Includes an inventory of commercial uses, including total acreage, square footage of buildings, and what type of uses are represented;
         4. Includes a statement of the standards of population density and building intensity recommended for the various land use categories covered by the plan; and
         5. Identifies and considers each agricultural protection area within the city and avoids inconsistent or detrimental land uses in such areas;
      2. A transportation and traffic 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, all correlated with population projections and the land use element of the general plan; and
      3. A moderate income housing element as required by U.C.A. 1953, § 10-9a-403.
   2. The general plan may include, among other things:
      1. 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;
      2. 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;
      3. A rehabilitation, redevelopment, and conservation element consisting of plans and programs for:
         1. Historic preservation;
         2. Diminution or elimination of blight; and
         3. Redevelopment, including housing sites, business and industrial sites, and public building sites;
      4. 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;
      5. A parks, trails, and open space element that establishes a comprehensive plan for the development of parks and trails, and preservation of open space;
      6. Recommendations for implementing the general plan, including the use of zoning and subdivision regulations, capital improvement plans, and other appropriate actions; and
      7. Provisions addressing any of the matters listed in U.C.A. 1953, § 10-9a-403(3)(f); and
      8. Any other elements the city considers appropriate.
3. Legal status. The general plan shall be considered an advisory guide for growth and development of the land except as may be specifically provided otherwise in this title, this Code, or by state law.
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 it conforms to the general plan.
5. Amendment. The general plan may be amended as provided in HCC 10-5-7.

(Code 2023, § 10-2-3; Ord. No. 2017-54, 12-13-2017)

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 U.C.A. 1953, title 72, ch. 5, pt. 4 (U.C.A. 1953, § 72-5-401 et seq.).
2. Amendments. Amendments to the master street plan may be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in HCC 10-5-7.
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 (C)(2) of this section; 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. Recommending that a landowner consider and accommodate the location of proposed streets in planning a development proposal in a manner that is consistent with U.C.A. 1953, § 10-9a-407, as amended;
      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 and if the dedication and improvement are consistent with U.C.A. 1953, § 10-9a-508.

(Code 2023, § 10-2-4; Ord. No. 2017-54, 12-13-2017)

1. Plan adoption. The city may adopt an impact fee facilities plan as provided in the Impact Fees Act (U.C.A. 1953, § 11-36a-301 et seq.).
2. Impact fee facilities availability. In the event an impact fee facilities plan is adopted, and such facilities are unavailable or inadequate to serve a proposed development project subject to the requirements of this title, the impact fee facilities plan may be used as a guide to determine when needed facilities may become available.

(Code 2023, § 10-2-5; Ord. No. 2017-54, 12-13-2017)