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Davis County launches yearlong rewrite of general plan and land-use code
Summary
Davis County staff and consultant Valerie Claussen outlined a roughly 12-month effort to refresh the county general plan (last updated in 2005), update the resource management element and add a countywide water management element, and rewrite Titles 14 and 15 to align county code with state changes. A public open house is scheduled March 11.
Davis County officials and planning consultants on Tuesday outlined an accelerated, roughly 12-month effort to update the county’s general plan and to comprehensively rewrite its land-use and building codes.
Valerie Claussen, principal of Planning Outpost, told the Davis County Commission work session the project will refresh the county’s general plan — last substantially revised in 2005 — and produce a separate, heavier rewrite of Titles 14 and 15, the county’s building and zoning codes. “It’s a long range strategic document that guides a community over 10 to 20 years,” Claussen said, describing the general plan as a policy framework that will be paired with a code update to enable implementation.
The presentation laid out a public-engagement program that begins with a land-use and…
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