6635 S Oquirrh Ridge Rd, West Jordan, UT 84081

Planned Community Zone

The purpose of the Planned Community P-C Zone is to provide a regulatory tool which allows large properties in the Southwest Community of Salt Lake County to be developed in accordance with a specific plan designed to achieve the following purposes: To promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare; To implement the objectives and policies of the general plan; To safeguard and enhance environmental amenities and the quality of development; To attain the physical, social, and economic advantages resulting from comprehensive and orderly planned use of land resources; To lessen congestion and assure convenience of access; To secure safety from fire, flood, and other dangers; To provide for adequate light, air, sunlight, and open space; To promote and encourage conservation of scarce resources; To prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population; To facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive, and harmonious community with a desirable living and working environment with unique identity and character; To attain a desirable balance of residential and employment opportunities; To promote a pedestrian friendly environment that encourages transit and bicycle use; To expedite the provision of adequate and essential public services; To facilitate development within the Southwest Community of Salt Lake County in accordance with the general plan by promoting high quality, innovative and creative development that includes a mixture of uses, heights and setbacks, varying densities and lot sizes and sufficient diversity of housing types to meet the full life cycle of housing needs of Salt Lake County residents, a harmonious variety of industrial and commercial uses, a high level of amenities, and preservation of open space; To promote more economical and efficient use of the land; and To provide a process for initiation, review, and regulation of large-scale comprehensively planned communities that affords the maximum flexibility to the developer within the context of an overall development program and specific, phased development plans coordinated with the provision of necessary public services and facilities.