10-9a-102 - Purposes -- General land use authority.
10-9a-102. Purposes -- General land use authority.
(1) The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the health, safety, and welfare, andpromote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, convenience, andaesthetics of each municipality and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to protectthe tax base, to secure economy in governmental expenditures, to foster the state's agriculturaland other industries, to protect both urban and nonurban development, to protect and ensureaccess to sunlight for solar energy devices, to provide fundamental fairness in land useregulation, and to protect property values.
(2) To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, municipalities may enact all ordinances,resolutions, and rules and may enter into other forms of land use controls and developmentagreements that they consider necessary or appropriate for the use and development of landwithin the municipality, including ordinances, resolutions, rules, restrictive covenants,easements, and development agreements governing uses, density, open spaces, structures,buildings, energy efficiency, light and air, air quality, transportation and public or alternativetransportation, infrastructure, street and building orientation and width requirements, publicfacilities, fundamental fairness in land use regulation, considerations of surrounding land usesand the balance of the foregoing purposes with a landowner's private property interests, heightand location of vegetation, trees, and landscaping, unless expressly prohibited by law.
Amended by Chapter 363, 2007 General Session