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Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code
Chapter 21 - Municipalities and Housing Supply
Part 5 - Home Ownership Promotion Zone for Municipalities
Section 502 - Applicability, requirements, and limitations.
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UT Code § 10-21-502 (2025)
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Effective 11/6/2025
10-21-502. Applicability, requirements, and limitations.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 15, 2025 Special Session 1
10-21-502. Applicability, requirements, and limitations.
- (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 municipality 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 municipality may restrict short term rentals in a home ownership promotion zone.
- (4)A municipality 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
- (i)
- (b)the area in the proposed home ownership 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 in accordance with Section 17C-1-702; or
- (ii)an existing housing and transit reinvestment zone.
- (a)the proposed home ownership promotion zone would overlap with a school district and:
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 15, 2025 Special Session 1
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