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Utah Code Title 17. Counties § 17-27a-1203. Applicability, requirements, and limitations

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) A home ownership promotion zone shall promote the following objectives:

(a) increasing availability of housing, including affordable housing;

(b) promotion of home ownership;

(c) overcoming development impediments and market conditions that render an affordable housing development cost prohibitive absent the incentives resulting from a home ownership promotion zone; and

(d) conservation of water resources through efficient land use.

(2) In order to accomplish the objectives described in Subsection (1), a county shall ensure that:

(a) land inside the proposed home ownership promotion zone is zoned as residential, with at least six planned housing units per acre;

(b) at least 60% of the proposed housing units within the home ownership promotion zone are affordable housing units; and

(c) all of the proposed housing units within the home ownership promotion zone are deed restricted to require owner occupation for at least five years.

(3) A county may restrict short term rentals in a home ownership promotion zone.

(4) A county may not create a home ownership promotion zone if:

(a) the proposed home ownership promotion zone would overlap with a school district and:

(i)(A) the school district has more than one municipality within the school district's boundaries; and

(B) the school district already has 100 acres designated as home ownership promotion zone within the school district's boundaries; or

(ii)(A) the school district has one municipality within the school district's boundaries; and

(B) the school district already has 50 acres designated as home ownership promotion zone within the school district's boundaries; or

(b) the area in the proposed home ownership promotion zone would overlap with:

(i) a project area, as that term is defined in Section 17C-1-102, and created under Title 17C, Chapter 1, Agency Operations, until the project area is dissolved pursuant to Section 17C-1-702; or

(ii) an existing housing and transit reinvestment zone.

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