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Show Box Elder County Ordinance Creates Planning Commission Outlines Duties for Net vly Created Board COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION ORDINANCE An ordinance in pursuance of authority granted in Title 17, Chapter 27, of the Utah Code Annotated 1953, as amended, creating a planning commission within Box Elder County, Utah, defining the duties and powers of said planning commission, providing for the adoption ' of a zoning ordinance, providing for the approval of subdivisions, and providing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance. THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF BOX ELDER, STATE OF UTAH, ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Planning Commission Created. There is hereby created a planning commission within and for Box Elder County to be known as the County Planning Commission. Said commission shall consist of seven members, one member of which shall be a member of the Board of Commissioners of Box Elder County. Each of the appointive members of the planning commission shall be a resident of the county and owner of real property, and at least four of them shall hold no other public office or position. Members shall be selected without respect to - political affiliations and shall serve without respect to political affiliations and shall serve without compensation, except for reasonable expenses. The terms of the appointed members of the commission shall be three years and until their respective successors have been appointed and qualified, except that the terms of the members of the first appointed ' commission shall ' be one, two and three years two to be appointed for one year, two to be appointed for two years, and two to be appointed for three years. Thereafter the terms for each appointed member shall be for three years. Vacancies of appointed members occurring otherwise than through the expiration of terms shall be filled by appointment by the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners with the consent of the other members. The term of the County Commissioners shall correspond to his term of office as a member of the Board of County Commissioners. The planning commission shall elect one of its members to serve as chairman, whose term shall be for one year. It shall also adopt rules and regulations and governing its procedure shall keep a public record of its proceedings. The Commission shall have the power and authority to employ experts and a staff and to pay such expenses as may be deemed reasonable and necessary for carrying out the powers hereinafter set forth, but not in excess of such sums as may be appropriated by the Board of County Commissioners and which may be placed at the disposal of the commission through gift or otherwise. Section 2. Commission to Make and Adopt Master Plan. It shall be the function of the County Planning Commission after holding public hearings to make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the unincorporated territory of the county. Any such plan may include the planning of incorporated areas, provided, how - ' t I , . I 1 ever, that the plan shall not be Section 5. Public Construc- thirty days notice of the time plans and plats of land laid out BOARD OF COUNTY 3 Box offered unless adopted by the Elder NEWS tion to Be Approved by and place of which shall be giv- in subdivision or buiding lots, COMMISSIONERS. en by at least one publication in and the streets, highways, al- ATTEST: municipal planning commission Planning Commission. thereof. The master plan may Brigham City, Utah newspaper of general circula- leys, or other portions of the As a means of giving stability K. B. Olsen, County Clerk. Include the general location, to the in same tion intended November 27, 1957 the to be Wednesday, dedicated County. plan from and after the character, and extent of streets time when to public use, or the use of pur- (SEAL) Section 9. Enforcement. the Board of County or roads, bridges, parks, play- Commissioners shall have adoptThe Board of County Commis- chasers or owners of lots frontgrounds, airports, and other ed an official map of the county sioners shall provide for the en- ing thereon or adjacent thereto, public ways, grounds, building, or any part thereof in accor- forcement of zoning regulations located within the County limand spaces; the general location dance with the withholding of building its, except those located within as set and extent of public utilities; forth in TitleproceduresUtah Code by any city or town within the and for such permits the acceptance, widening, re- Annotated, 1953, thenceforth no shall establish and fill a purpose position County, shall be submitted to moval, extension, relocation, public road, park, ground, build- of County Building Inspector or the County Planning Commisabandonment, or change of use ing, structure, or public utility shall authorize an administra- sion before they shall be reof any of the foregoing; the gen- shall be constructed nor shall tive official of the County to as- corded. It shall not be lawful eral, character, location, and ex- any street be acquired or vaca- sume the functions of such po- to record any such plan or plat of tent centers, ted unless the location and ex- sition in addition to his custo- in the office of the County Recommunity townsites, and other housing de- tent thereof shall conform to mary functions. corder unless the same shall velopments; the general location said official map or, if not endorsement or bear thereon and From the after adoption otherwise, theby and extent of forests and open shown on said map, shall have of a of the approval ordinance and the zoning development areas for purposes been submitted to the planning establishment Tlie approval of of the position of commission. of conservation and water sup- commission for its review and or plat by the commisBuilding Inspector and the fill- the plan and drainage recommendation. ply, sanitation, In case of ing of the same It shall be un- sion shall not be deemed an acof disapproval of said Planning lawful to facilities, or the protection erect, eontruet, re- ceptance of the proposed dediurban development. Commission the Board of Coun- construct, alter, or change the cation by the public. Such acSection 3. General Purposes in ty Commissioners shall have use of any building within the ceptance, if any, shall be given power to overrule the Planning territory covered by the zon- by action of the Board of CounMaking Master Plan. In the preparation of a coun- Commission by a vote of not ing ordinance without obtaining ty Commissioners. The owners and purchasers of such lots of Its entire a building permit. No ty master plan, a County Plan- less than a majority permit Failure of the shall be issued unless the plans shall be presumed conclusively ning Commission shall make membership.Commission to act and purpose of the proposed to have notice of public plans, careful and comprehensive sur- Planning date erection, construction, from within the days thirty altera- maps, and reports of such com the and studies of veys existing to shall official submission it of or use conform to all mission affecting such property tion, conditions and probable future fully within the County. unless a zoning regulations in effect. growth of the territory within be deemed approval Section 12. Definitions. its jurisdiction. The county mas- longer period be granted by the Section 10. Zoning Ordinance "Subdivision shall mean the to Be Filed. ter plan shall be made with the County Commission. Section 6. Commission to Make division of a tract, a lot, or pargeneral purpose of guiding and Upon the adoption of any zon cel and Certify Zoning Plan or of land into three or more accomplishing a coordinated, ador ordinance, ing regulation Plans. justed, and harmonious developamendment thereto, the Board lots, plots, sites, or other diviIt shall be the function and of ment of the county which will, Commissioners shall sions of land for sale or of buildin accordance with the present duty of the County Planning file County except for a certified copy of such or- ing development, bona fide agricultural, commerand future needs and resources Commission to make and certi- dinance, including the in map, best promote the health, safety, fy to the Board of County Com- the' office of the County Record- cial, manufacturing, or indusmorals, order, convenience, pros- missioners a plan for zoning all er and County Clerk, and the trial purposes. Section 13. Penalty. perity, or the general welfare or any part of the county. The County Clerk and Recorder of the inhabitants, as well as ef- Planning Commission may pre- shall index such ordinances as Violations of any of the proficiency and economy in the pro- pare a single plan covering the nearly as ' possible in the same visions of this ordinance shall, cess of development, including, entire county or separate and manner as instruments pertain- upon conviction, be punishable among other things, such distri- successive plans covering only ing to land titles are indexed. as a misdemeanor. bution of population and of the part or parts of the county. Section 14. Section 11. Commission to PreSaid zoning plan or plans shall uses of land for urbanization, pare and Adopt Subdivision Any ordinance or parts of orordirectext include of the the trade, industry, habitation, dinances in conflict herewith Regulations. reation, agriculture, arboretum, nance and maps and shall ,rep are hereby repealed. The Commission Planning and other purposes as will tend resent the recommendations of shall Section 15. Effective Date, govprepare regulations to create conditions favorable to the Planning Commission for This ordinance shall take eferning the subdivision of land or districts the GAS by regulation health, safety, transportation, within the County, the purpose fect sixteen (16) days after pas prosperity, civic activities, and zones of the location, height, and effect of which shall be to sage. APPLIANCE size of and culother buildings bulk, recreation, educational, and the Commission in the PASSED BY THE BOARD OF tural opportunities; will tend to structures, percentage of lots guide of its duties and to COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of performance reduce the wastes of physical, which may be occupied, the size advise the public regarding the BOX ELDER COUNTY, this financial, or human resources of lots and open spaces, the den requirements requisite to the 18th day of November, 1957. which result from either exces- sity and distribution of populaof plats. Lewis S. Wight Voting Aye. sive congestion or excessive tion, the location and use ' of approval All plans of streets or highE. Emery Wight Voting Aye." structures and for and buildings scattering of population; for public use, and all F. Leland Seely Voting Aye." ways recwill tend toward an efficient trade, industry, residence, and economical utilization, con- reation, public, activities and servation, and production of the other purposes, and the uses of supply of food and water and of land for trade, industry, recreadrainage, sanitary, and other fa- tion and other purposes. All such regulations . shall be cilities an resources. Section 4. Method of Adopting uniform for each class or kind of building or structure throughMaster Plan. out zone, but the regulations The County Planning Commis- in anyone zone may differ from any sion may adopt the county mas- those in other zones. ter plan as a whole by a single Such regulations shall be deresolution, or, as the work - of to encourage and facilisigned making the whole master plan tate the orderly growth of the progresses, may from time to the most time adopt a part or parts there county, to encourage use of land, to1 seof, any such part to correspond appropriate cure economy in governmental generally with one or more of expenditures, to secure safety of subdivisions functional the and from other dangers, fire r subject-mattewhich may the tax base, foster agribe included in the plan. The protect the to commission may from time to culture and other industry, FOR AS LOW AS both urban and time, amend, extend, or add to protect development to the end that the plan, or carry any part of it conInto greater detail. The adop- the health, safety, morals, and venience, order, prosperity tion of the plan or any part, welfare of the present amendment, extension, or addi- general inhabitants of the tion shall' be by resolution car- and future Thanksgiving of Utah may be enhanced ried by the affirmative votes of State and . . improved thereby. hot less than a majority of the andSection 7. Adoption of Zoning Christmas of entire membership the plan Ordinance. ning commission and after a After receiving the certificafull hearing shall have been had tion of the zoning plan from the thereon after notice of " such Planning Commission, hearing shall have been given County once each week for four succes- the Board of County CommisReg. $414 sive weeks in a newspaper hav- sioners may regulate within the GAS FURNACE covered by the plan ing general circulation in, and territory NOW ONLY most likely to give notice to the the location height, bulk, and and structures, residents of, the locality which size of buildings of lots which would be affected thereby. The the percentage resolution shall refer expressly may be occupied, the size of to the plans and descriptive courts and other open spaces, 1 year free .ser,M ' k Aii and struci I matter by the identifying signa- the use of buildings Courtesy o4 The New York Historical Soae'y, New York Qty Robert L Stuart CoUectioa vice. Sale lasts two of land for use and the tures, ture of the chairman of the recweeks. Buy now 1 commission. The master plan trade, industry, residence, next gas-fire- d year! heating Pay shall be available for public in- reation, and other purposes and require and provide for the spection in the office of the may issuance of building permits as reaat commission all planning sonable times, but its purpose a condition precedent to the any and effect shall be solely to aid right to construct or alterBefore PHONE 294 the planrfing commission in the building or structure. 15 NORTH MAIN adopting any zoning plan and-o- r performance of its duties. each successive plan, however, the Board of County CommisI ' sioners shall hold a public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be givthank-yo- u en by four publications in a cirnewspaper having general culation in the County, giving at least thirty days notice. Such notice shall state the place at which the text and map may be After only one year of service a examined before the date of the I tractor can lose as much as 20 of its as well as the time and hearing, original power, according to authora story we all know and love the first place of the hearing. No ' subpray for the strength and courage to keep itative sources. Think what this means stantial change from the text exciteif you've let your tractor go longer their faith in this strange, new land. The or map as certified by thg PlanThanksgiving. than that without a checkover! ning Commission shall be made ment in their little homes must have been It could mean your tractor is deliverThis Thanksgiving, why not. take your unless change is first submitted Comof , to a its the is County Planning the as original power ing only portion much it tantalizing today pretty family to your house of worship A quiet mission for its approval or sug. . . eating far more fuel than it should - and of smells roast turkey . . 4 making you spend longer hours in gestions. pumpkin pie hour of prayer and thanks will make your 8.' Planning Cominis-- , Section the field . . . and cutting your profit. children it of rush bustle and the eager sion to Approve Amendholiday so much more meaningful. Obviously it pays to have your tractor ments. wonderful been a have must day! given a frequent and thorough check-ove- r! From and after the time when Wherever you are . . . whatever your beLet our skilled mechanics look it a zoning ordinance shall have over. They'll clean-i- t up . . . tune it up. down their sat to But before the Pilgrims liefs may be . . . take time to oEer your the been adopted covering They'll restore the power1 efficiency and the uninor of whole any of part feast observed the true meaning fuel economy- - They'll do only the words of thanks . . . just as the Pilgrims did they corporated area of Box Elder do it quickly, necessary work all any amendthenceforth, County, together gathered more than 300 years ago. Thanksgiving. They efficiently, and at a reasonable price. ment or addition thereto- - shall for thanks talk over your tractor and equipLet's in their meetinghouse to give not be made or become effective ment service needs. Won't you give us unless the same shall have been the good they had received, for survival a call soon? proposed by or be first submitted to the Planning Commission thiough a long year of hardship, and to WORSHIP TOGETHER THIS WEEK for its approval, disapproval, or suggestions. If disapproved by the Planning Commission, such amendment, to become effective, must receive the favorable vote of not Contributed to the Religion in1 American Life Program by 'WALK A BLOCK AND SAVE' less than a majority of the entire membership of the Board of County Commissioners. ' Before finally adopting any amendment, the Board of CounT ty Commissioners shall hold a public hearing thereon, at least - . HOLIDAY . N-2- - SALE! SI - GAS WATER HEATERS non-ur-ba- n 5S50 tSSSS- :; : SPECIAL 5320 '"r Fermaglas V Thanksgiving Day will he a happier, more meaningful day... WEBER HEATING X APPLIANCE IMSim SiMzg CEM0 vie. toamf fora visit Io your church or synagogue - L Af Its ... 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