Ordinance 02-03-2026 - An Ordinance Amending Santaquin City Code to Reduce Parking Requirements for Attached Accessory Dwelling Unit
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Event Start Date & Time
February 4, 2026 05:00 PM
Description/Agenda
ORDINANCE NO. 02-03-2026
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SANTAQUIN CITY CODE TO REDUCE PARKING
REQUIREMENTS FOR ATTACHED ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS, PROVIDING
FOR CODIFICATION, CORRECTION OF SCRIVENER'S ERRORS, SEVERABILITY,
AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City of Santaquin is a fourth-class city of the state of Utah; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has specific authority pursuant to Title 10, Chapter 9a Utah Code
Ann. (1953 as amended) to adopt a zoning plan including an ordinance and map which divide the
municipality into districts or zones and within such districts to regulate the erection,
construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair and uses of buildings and structures and the uses
of land; and
WHEREAS, the state legislature has granted general welfare power to the City Council,
independent, apart from, and in addition to, its specific grants of legislative authority, which
enables the city to pass ordinances which are reasonably and appropriately related to the objectives
of that power, i.e. providing for the public safety, health, morals, and welfare; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend Santaquin City Code Title 10, Chapter 16, Section
080 to reduce the parking requirement for attached accessory dwelling units to be consistent with
Utah State Code; and
WHEREAS, the Santaquin City Planning Commission held a public hearing on January 27, 2026,
which hearing was preceded by the posting of public notice in at least three public places within
the City limits of Santaquin City; and
WHEREAS, after the noted public hearing, the Santaquin City Planning Commission forwarded
a recommendation to the City Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of Santaquin City, State of Utah,
as follows:
Section I. Amendments
Title 10 Chapter 16 Section 080 is amended as follows: (underlined text is added, stricken text is deleted)
10.16.080 ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS
B. Attached (i.e., Accessory Apartments): Attached accessory dwelling units shall be
allowed in any residential zone, subject to the following criteria: (Ord. 2-01-2002, 2-
5-2002, eff. 2-5-2002; amd. Ord. 03-02-2007, 3-7-2007)
1. Location: Attached accessory dwelling units shall not be allowed on any parcel
except those containing a single-family dwelling.
2. Parking: Any property containing an attached accessory dwelling unit shall
provide two one off-street parking spaces for residents of the unit. Tandem parking
will not qualify as approved parking.
Item # 10.
Section II. Severability
If any part of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstances shall, for
any reason, be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, such
judgment shall not affect, impair of invalidate the remainder of this ordinance or the application
thereof to other persons and circumstances, but shall be confined to its operation to the section,
subdivision, sentence or part of the section and the persons and circumstances directly involved in
the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the
intent of the City Council that this section would have been adopted if such invalid section,
provisions, subdivision, sentence or part of a section or application had not been included.
Section III. Contrary Provisions Repealed
Any and all other provisions of the Santaquin City Code that are contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance
are hereby repealed.
Section IV. Codification, Inclusion in the Code, and Scrivener's Errors
It is the intent of the City Council that the provisions of this ordinance be made part of the Santaquin City
Code as adopted, that sections of this ordinance may be re-numbered or re-lettered, and that the word
ordinance may be changed to section, chapter, or other such appropriate word or phrase in order to
accomplish such intent regardless of whether such inclusion in a code is accomplished. Typographical errors
which do not affect the intent of this ordinance may be authorized by the City without need of public hearing
by its filing a corrected or re-codified copy of the same with the City Recorder.
Section V. Posting and Effective Date
This ordinance shall become effective at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 4th, 2026. Prior to that time,
the City Recorder shall deposit a copy of this ordinance in the official records of the City and place a copy
of this ordinance in three places within the City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of February 2026.
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