Box Elder County’s planning department will schedule a public meeting to discuss a proposed ordinance that would require land to be zoned for agriculture before it can be considered for an agricultural protection area. The meeting is intended to address confusion and prevent misinterpretation of the proposed change, which follows legal guidance confirming that under Utah law, unzoned land cannot qualify for an agricultural protection designation. Although the county has received applications to assign Ag protection area status from unzoned areas, those applications must still be processed under current rules until the ordinance is formally adopted. “We’ve started seeing an...

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