This title shall be known as the SANTAQUIN CITY LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT CODE, and may be so cited and pleaded. (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002)

It is the intent and purpose of the city council of Santaquin City, Utah, to promote the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the city by guiding development within the city in accordance with a comprehensive plan prepared and adopted by the city to accomplish the following:

1. Encourage and facilitate orderly growth and development in the city.
2. Facilitate adequate provisions for transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks, and other public requirements.
3. Promote sanitation and health of the inhabitants.
4. Promote safety from fires, floods, traffic hazards, and other dangers.
5. Discourage the overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population.
6. Discourage undue scattering of population and unnecessary expenditure of monies for excessive streets, water and sewer lines, and other public requirements.
7. Stabilize and improve property values.
8. Protect the residents from objectionable noise, odor, dust, fumes, and other deleterious substances or conditions.
9. Promote a more attractive and wholesome environment. (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002)
   

The regulations and restrictions as set forth in this title shall be so interpreted and applied as to further the purposes of this title. (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002)

In establishing the zones, the boundaries thereof, and regulations and restrictions applying within each of the zones, due and careful consideration was given, among other things, to the suitability of the land for particular uses, and to the character of the zone, with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the city. (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002)

In interpreting and applying this title, the provisions hereof shall be held to be the minimum requirements adopted for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare. In the case that this title imposes a greater restriction than is imposed or required by other existing provisions of law or ordinance, then in such case the provisions of this title shall control. (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002)

The zoning ordinance of Santaquin City heretofore adopted is hereby repealed, also, all ordinances, resolutions, or parts thereof in conflict with the provisions of this title are hereby repealed insofar as they conflict with the provisions of this title, provided, however, that any building, use of land, or any construction thereon which was not authorized by or under the ordinances of the city or which was illegal under such ordinances, shall remain unauthorized and illegal unless expressly authorized or permitted by the provisions of this title. (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002)

This title shall take effect upon proper publication of this title following the date of passage. (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002)

Uses of land which are specifically identified as permitted or conditional uses in any zone that is included within this title are specifically proscribed in any other zone within this title in which said use is not included as either a permitted or a conditional use. (Ord. 9-04-2002, 9-18-2002, eff. 9-19-2002)

Uses of land which are not expressly either permitted or conditional within a particular zone, and are not identified as permitted or conditional uses in any other zone that is included in this title, are hereby expressly declared to be conditional uses in all zones, pursuant to the express authority given under terms of this code. The planning commission, appeal authority, zoning administrator, or other authorized officer, shall only permit such a use within a zone by the terms of SCC 10.24. (Ord. 9-04-2002, 9-18-2002, eff. 9-19-2002; amd. Ord. 02-02-2008, 2-6-2008, eff. 2-7-2008)