The Box Elder County Commission on July 9 approved a package of land use changes aimed at protecting agriculture while clarifying development rules in rural areas. The actions include the creation of a new agricultural heritage zone, a consistent slope standard for buildable land, and a revision to the county’s annexation policy. All three passed unanimously following presentations from Box Elder County Community Development Director Scott Lyons. “We found that kind of a safe slope to be putting in our code for a buildable slope would be 20%,” Lyons said. “Some of those regulations say 15%, some of them say...

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