Utah Code Title 10. Utah Municipal Code § 10-9a-102. Purposes--General land use authority

(a) provide for the health, safety, and welfare;

(b) promote the prosperity;

(c) improve the morals, peace, good order, comfort, convenience, and aesthetics of each municipality and each municipality's present and future inhabitants and businesses;

(d) protect the tax base;

(e) secure economy in governmental expenditures;

(f) foster the state's agricultural and other industries;

(g) protect both urban and nonurban development;

(h) protect and ensure access to sunlight for solar energy devices;

(i) provide fundamental fairness in land use regulation;

(j) facilitate orderly growth and allow growth in a variety of housing types;  and

(k) protect property values.

(a) uses;

(b) density;

(c) open spaces;

(d) structures;

(e) buildings;

(f) energy efficiency;

(g) light and air;

(h) air quality;

(i) transportation and public or alternative transportation;

(j) infrastructure;

(k) street and building orientation;

(l) width requirements;

(m) public facilities;

(n) fundamental fairness in land use regulation;  and

(o) considerations of surrounding land uses to balance the foregoing purposes with a landowner's private property interests and associated statutory and constitutional protections.

(3)(a) Any ordinance, resolution, or rule enacted by a municipality pursuant to its authority under this chapter shall comply with the state's exclusive jurisdiction to regulate oil and gas activity, as described in Section 40-6-2.5.

(b) A municipality may enact an ordinance, resolution, or rule that regulates surface activity incident to an oil and gas activity if the municipality demonstrates that the regulation: