17.02.020 - Purpose of the Land Use and Development Code.

A.

The purposes of this Title are to provide for the health, safety, and welfare, and promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, convenience, and aesthetics of the City of South Salt Lake and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to protect the tax base, to secure economy in governmental expenditures, to foster and protect both urban and nonurban Development, and to protect and ensure access to sunlight for solar energy devices, to provide fundamental fairness in Land Use Regulation, and to protect property values.

B.

To accomplish the purposes of this Title, the City may enact all Land Use Regulations, resolutions, and rules and may enter into other forms of land use controls and Development agreements that it considers necessary or appropriate for the Use and Development of land within the City, including ordinances, resolutions, rules, fees, restrictive covenants, easements, and Development agreements governing Use, Density, open space, Structures, Buildings, energy efficiency, light and air, air quality, transportation and public or alternative transportation, infrastructure, Street and Building orientation and width requirements, public facilities, fundamental fairness in Land Use Regulation, considerations of surrounding land uses and the balance of the foregoing purposes with a land Owner's private property interests, height and location of vegetation, trees, and Landscaping, unless expressly prohibited by law.

C.

This Title is also established to facilitate orderly growth and Development in the City of South Salt Lake and to enhance the lives of the citizens of and visitors to the City.

D.

This Title establishes a fair and efficient process for Development and Land Use Applications, as accomplished through the delegation of powers among City officials and a transparent review process.

(Ord. No. 2020-02, § IV(Exh. C), 1-8-2020)