1.7 Creation of Districts and Zone Map
Unofficial copy. It may be out of date. Not legal or zoning advice. Zoning rules change, and only the city or county can say for sure what is allowed on a property. Confirm with the city or county planning department before you buy, sign or build.
The official Amalga code is at https://www.amalgautah.gov/amalga-town-code.
Text pulled 2026-10-19 from this source.
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In order to carry out the purposes of the Code, zone districts have been established as set forth in Chapter 7 of this Code. These zone districts are identified on the official zoning map, which is adopted as a part of this Code. In interpreting the zoning map, the following standards shall apply:
(a) The zoning boundary lines are intended to conform to existing property boundary lines when not in a public right-of-way, or to follow the center line of public rights-of-way (including prescriptive rights-ofway), unless the lines are located by specific dimensions, in which case the dimensions shall control. Where the zoning district lines approximately follow the lot lines as they exist at the date of adoption of this Code, the district lines shall be conformed to the lot lines.
(b) Where the zoning district lines appear to have intentionally divided a lot or parcel between two or more districts, the applicable zoning for each portion of the lot or parcel shall be determined by using the scale shown on the map. If the placement of the district line cannot be
determined, the standards of the zone allowing the less intensive land use shall be applied to the entire parcel.
(c) Where the district lines are intended to follow natural land contours, such as the ridge tops, hillsides or waterways, the line shall be determined at the point at which the general slope of the land changes to 15% grade or in the case of waterways, the average centerline of the waterway. In the event of a dispute as to the location of the change in grade, the point shall be fixed with reference to topographic data submitted to the Town. Where land of less than 15% slope is surrounded by land of 15% or greater slope, the Planning Commission shall entertain an application to rezone the land of less than 15% slope to a suitable residential use if the Town Board determines that the land is adequately accessible and not within a sensitive lands overlay zone or designation, and one access of which is a road of standard width that does not exceed 8% grade, and that the grading of the road or roads to reach the land in question will not create hydrologic, erosion, geologic, or similar hazards for land lying below the proposed road, and that all cuts and fills for the road can be safely stabilized.