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Weber County planners consider easier conservation path for existing landowners while guarding against development 'backdoors'
Summary
Planning staff proposed a narrow ordinance pathway to let owners of parcels with existing homes shrink the legal lot around the residence and place the remainder of the property in a permanent conservation easement, with the goal of making small‑scale conservation easier without increasing allowed density.
At a work session, Weber County planning staff floated an option to help landowners protect open space by allowing the creation of a smaller legal lot around an existing home while placing the remaining acreage into a conservation easement. Staff framed the proposal as an administrative pathway intended to make conservation easier for landowners who already have homes on large parcels and want to retire the remainder of their development potential.
The idea discussed would let a landowner redraw lot lines so the occupied residence sits on a smaller lot (staff used a one‑acre example in discussion) and donate the rest to a third‑party land trust or place a perpetual conservation easement on the remaining acreage. Staff said the ordinance could be crafted as…
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