3-2-010 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 It may be out of date.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.
A. Minimal Use. Minimal Use zones provide a district to establish areas in mountain, hillside, canyon mountain valley, desert and other open and generally undeveloped lands where human habitation should be limited in order to protect land and other open space resources; to reduce unreasonable requirements for public utility and service expenditures through uneconomic and unwise dispersal and scattering of population; to encourage use of the land, where appropriate, for forestry, grazing, agriculture, wildlife habitat, and recreation; to avoid excessive damage to watersheds, water pollution, soil erosion, danger from brush land fires, damage to grazing and livestock raising, and to wildlife values; to avoid the premature development of lands by discouraging intensive development until the ultimate best use of the land can be recommended by the Planning Commission to the County Commission; and to promote the health, safety, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the community
B. Agricultural. Agricultural zones promote and preserve in appropriate areas favorable to agriculture and to maintain greenbelt spaces. These districts are intended to include activities normally and necessarily related to the conduct of agriculture and to protect the district from the intrusion of uses inimical to the continuance of agricultural activity.
The purpose of the A ½ zone in this Chapter is to outline regulations for existing A ½ parcels within Box Elder County. The A ½ zone is not an option for rezones due to this zone not being adequate for agricultural uses.
C. Rural Residential. The purposes of providing a rural residential district are to promote and preserve in appropriate areas conditions favorable to large-lot family life, to maintain a rural atmosphere, to provide for the keeping of limited numbers of animals and fowl, and to reduce requirements for public utilities, services, and infrastructure.