1-1-030 Purpose
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 It may be out of date.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 Box Elder County code is at https://www.boxeldercountyut.gov/241/Land-Use-Management-Development-Code.
Text pulled 2026-10-19 from this source.
Chapter 5-4 (Flood Damage Prevention) is a scanned image on the county's site and is not included.
Tables (like use tables) may not copy cleanly, so check any table against the official code.
Confirm anything here with Box Elder County planning before you rely on it.
This Code is designed and enacted for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, welfare, and to promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, convenience, and aesthetics of the present and future inhabitants and businesses of Box Elder County, State of Utah, including, among other things, the lessening of congestion in the streets, securing safety from fire and other dangers, protecting the tax base, securing economy in governmental expenditures, fostering the state’s agricultural and other industries, protecting both urban and non-urban development, protecting and ensuring access to sunlight for solar energy devices, encouraging energy efficient patterns of development, providing adequate light and air, preventing the overcrowding of land, avoiding undue concentration of population, facilitating adequate provision for transportation, water, sewage, and other public requirements, providing for the classification of land uses and providing fundamental fairness in land use regulation. These land use regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, to the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, and with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the County.