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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.
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A. Neighborhood Commercial District (C-N). To provide areas in appropriate locations where convenience buying outlets may be established to serve surrounding residential neighborhoods. The regulations of this district are designed to promote a combination of retail and service facilities which in character and scale are necessary to meet day-to-day needs of area residents.
B. Highway Commercial District (C-H). To provide areas in appropriate locations adjacent to highways or major streets where activities dependent upon or catering to thoroughfare traffic and the traveling public may be established, maintained, and protected. The regulations of this district are designed to encourage harmony between traffic needs and centers for retail commercial, entertainment, automotive facilities, and other appropriate highway-related activities.
C. General Commercial District (C-G). To provide areas in appropriate locations where a combination of business, retail commerce, entertainment, and related activities may be established, maintained and protected. Regulations of this district are designed to provide a suitable environment for those commercial and service uses which are vital to economic life, but some of which would be intrusive and disruptive in a shopping center type of commercial development.
D. Commercial Enterprise District (C-E). To provide areas for more intense commercial and light industrial uses than those listed above in areas that are buffered from more heavily populated residential areas by a major highway or other less intense commercial zones. (Ordinance 301)
E. General Industrial District (M-G). To provide for areas in appropriate locations where heavy industrial processes necessary to the economy may be conducted.
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The regulations of this district are designed to protect environmental quality of the district and adjacent areas.