8E.2.2 Features
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 It may be out of date.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 Bear River City code is at https://www.bearrivercityutah.gov/city-ordinances/.
Text pulled 2026-10-19 from this source.
Partial copy: chapters 1, 2, 3, 7 (the zone districts) and 10 are scanned images on the city's site and are not included. Use the official code for those.
Tables (like use tables) may not copy cleanly, so check any table against the official code.
Confirm anything here with Bear River City planning before you rely on it.
The preliminary plat shall show the following:
(a) The location of property with respect to surrounding property and streets, the names of all adjoining property owners of record or the names of adjoining developments, the names of adjoining streets.
(b) The location and dimensions of all boundary lines of the property to be expressed in feet and decimals of a foot. Acreage amounts should also be disclosed.
(c) The location of existing streets, easements, water bodies, rivers, streams, and other pertinent features such as swamps, buildings, parks, cemeteries, drainage or irrigation ditches, bridges, or as determined by the Planning Commission.
(d) The location and width of all existing and proposed streets and easements, alleys, trails, and other public ways, and easement and proposed street rights-ofways and building setback lines.
(e) The location, type, height, and light output of all street lights.
The location, dimensions, and areas of all proposed and existing lots.
(g) The location and dimensions of all property proposed to be set aside for park or playground use, or other public or private reservations with designation of the purpose thereof, types, and conditions, if any, of the dedication, preservation or reservation.
(h) The name and address of the owner or owners of land to be subdivided, the name and address of the subdivider if other than the owner, and the name of the land surveyor.
The date of the map, approximate true north point, scale, and title of the
subdivision.
Sufficient data acceptable to the City Engineer and Appropriate City Officials to
determine readily the location, bearing, and length of all lines, and to reproduce
such lines upon the ground, the location of all proposed monuments.
(k) Names of the subdivision and all new streets, subject to the approval of the Planning Commission.
Indication of the use of any lot whether single-family, agricultural, commercial,
as well as all uses other than those specified that are proposed by the subdivider.
(m) All lots in each block shall be consecutively numbered. Outlots shall be lettered in alphabetical order.
(n) All information required on the sketch plat should also be shown on the preliminary plat, and the following notation shall also be shown:
(1) Explanation of drainage easements, if any.
(2) Explanation of site easements, if any.
(3) Explanation of reservations and conservation easements.
(4) Owners dedication, if any, and Consent to Record as required by applicable State Law.
(o) Form for endorsements by the Planning Commission Chairman, Mayor, City Recorder, County Recorder's Office, as well as signature blocks for the Culinary Water Authority, Sewer Authority, Irrigation Water Authority, Street Authority, Flood Plain Administrator, City Attorney, City Engineer, Fire Authority, and Box Elder County School District. (Amend. #9, Ord. No. 2011-11-03)
(p) Any restrictions or requirements necessary to ensure solar access shall be defined as well as any view easements designated.
(q) All utility facilities existing and proposed throughout the subdivision shall be shown on the preliminary plat or on accompanying engineering plans.
The lack of information under any item specified herein, or improper
information supplied by the applicant, shall be cause of disapproval of a
preliminary plat.
A plan designating limits of disturbance or building pads and utilities corridors
and connections for each parcel and for subdivision improvements, such as
utilities and roads.