13.04.030 GENERAL PROVISIONS AND ADMINISTRATION: Scope

1. To accomplish the purposes of this title, the County may enact all ordinances, resolutions, and rules, and may enter into other forms of land use controls and development agreements that the County considers necessary or appropriate for the use and development of land within the unincorporated area of the County, including ordinances, resolutions, rules, restrictive covenants, easements, and development agreements governing: uses, density, open spaces, structures, buildings, energy-efficiency, light and air, air quality, transportation and public or alternative transportation, infrastructure, street and building orientation and width requirements, public facilities, fundamental fairness in land use regulation, and considerations of surrounding land uses to balance the foregoing purposes with a landowner’s private property interests and associated statutory and constitutional protections. 2. No person shall subdivide any tract of land, sell, exchange or offer to sell any parcel of land which is part of a subdivision of a larger tract of land, nor offer for recording any deed conveying such a parcel of land, or any interest in, except in compliance with this title, the Sanpete County zoning ordinance, §17-27a of Utah State Statutes (as amended), and other applicable state and federal laws. 3. No lot within a subdivision created and recorded prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title or approved by the Sanpete County Board of County Commissioners and recorded in the office of the County Recorder under the provisions of this title, shall be further divided, rearranged, added to or reduced in area, nor shall any boundaries of any lot be altered in any manner so as to create or form an additional lot, without first obtaining the appropriate approval of the County, as required. 4. The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other documents used in the process of selling or transferring lots, plots, parcels, sites, unites, or other division of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, for offer, sale, lease, or development either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms, and conditions does not exempt the transactions from the requirements of this title and such action from the penalties or remedies provided by this title, the Sanpete County zoning ordinance, or the laws of the State of Utah. 5. No division of land that leaves a remainder parcel or lot of less than the required size for a legal parcel or lot shall be allowed for development purposes in any zone. Parcels or lots already in existence with less than the legal parcel or lot size may remain, but may not be developed. These parcels may be combined with adjacent parcels or lots to make a legal sized parcel or lot which may be allowed to be developed.