02.0842 Use Requirements
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 It may be out of date.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 Elmo code is at https://emery.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ZONING-ORDINANCES.pdf.
Text pulled 2026-10-19 from this source.
This is the town's 1975 typed zoning ordinance, the only one posted online (on Emery County's site). It may be outdated; confirm the current rules with the town.
Tables (like use tables) may not copy cleanly, so check any table against the official code.
Confirm anything here with Elmo planning before you rely on it.
The following buildings, structures, and uses of land shall be permitted in the I-1
Industrial Zone upon compliance with requirements as set forth in this Ordinance.
A. Agriculture.
B. Livestock in unlimited numbers.
C. Barns, corrals, pens, coops, machinery sheds, and other buildings and structures
related to agriculture related to agriculture and the raising of livestock.
D. Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, fabrication of goods and
materials, except the processing or animal byproducts and livestock feeding
establishments of over one hundred (100) head.
E. Asphalt mixing plants, coal yards, contractors’ equipment storage, concrete
mixing plants, gas and oil storage facilities, public buildings, and public utility
facilities and buildings, shops, craft, tire recapping establishments, oil and gas
wells.
F. Automobiles wrecking and salvage yards, when surrounded by a sight obscuring
mental fence constructed to a height of at least eight (8) feet so that the material
stored in the enclosure cannot be observed from any street adjacent to the yard.
G. Other uses ruled by the Board of Adjustment to be similar to uses specifically
permitted in the zone and which will harmonize with the objectives and
characteristics of the I-1 Industrial Zone.
02.0841 Objectives and Characteristics of Zone · 02.0843 Area Requirements