Ordinance 04-01-2024: Reduction of Minimum Square Footage in the Main Street Business Districts Zone
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April 3, 2024 12:00 AM
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ORDINANCE NO. 04-01-2024
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SANTAQUIN CITY CODE TO REDUCE THE
MINIMUM SQUARE FOOTAGE REQUIREMENT FOR VARIOUS RESIDENTIAL
UNIT SIZES WITHIN THE MAIN STREET BUSINESS DISTRICTS ZONE, 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 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 state legislature requires that a moderate income housing element be included in
the general plan of the City and that it include strategies and an implementation plan to provide
moderate income housing; and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved a strategy and an implementation plan related to zoning
incentives for moderate income units in new developments; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend Santaquin City Code Title 10 Chapter 20 Section
190 to reduce the minimum square footage requirement for various residential unit sizes within
the Main Street Business Districts Zone.
WHEREAS, the Santaquin City Planning Commission held a public hearing on March 26, 2024,
which hearing was preceded by the posting of public notice on the City's website
(www.santaquin.org), on the State of Utah's Public Notice Website, and in at least three public
places within the City limits of Santaquin City in accordance with Section 10-3-711 of the Utah
State Code; 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 20, Section 190 is amended as follows: (underlined text is added, stricken text is deleted)
K. Multi-Family Development Standards: The maximum density allowed for multi-family
developments shall be conditioned upon the architectural design of the development and
its ability to meet the following zone standards. The following housing and open space
and amenities standards shall also be applied to mixed use developments unless
addressed in the general standards above.
1. Minimum Lot and Unit Size: The minimum lot size for a multi-family development in
the Main Street Residential (MSR) area shall be one (1) acre. The minimum density of
a multi-family development shall be 8 units/acre. The maximum density of a multifamily
development shall be 12 units/acre. The average minimum livable unit area shall
be five four hundred (500400) square feet for a studio unit, six hundred and fiftyseven
hundred fifty (750650) square feet for a single bedroom unit, and nine eight hundred
(900800) square feet for a two (2) bedroom unit. No unit shall have less than ninety
percent (90%) of the required average. Units with more than two (2) bedrooms shall
provide an additional one hundred fifty (150) square feet per additional bedroom.
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, April 3rd, 2024. 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 2nd day of April 2024.
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