Davis County Is Rewriting Its General Plan — and the Road and Land-Use Rules That Go With It
A general plan is the least glamorous document a county produces and one of the most consequential. It is the reference point officials reach for when someone asks whether a parcel can be subdivided, how wide a road has to be, or where the next decade of growth is supposed to land. Davis County is in the middle of rewriting its.
Commissioners held a public hearing on modifications to the Davis County General Plan on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 10 a.m. at the Davis County Administration Building, 61 S. Main St., Suite 303, in Farmington. The Clerk’s Office posted the notice on Sept. 4. The same meeting carried a companion item: a notice of intent that commissioners would consider the Davis County Planning Commission’s recommendation to adopt the amended plan.
Where to read the draft
The county has put the plan on a dedicated project site at daviscounty.planitusa.com, where it is available for public review. Residents with questions can reach Davis County Community and Economic Development at 801-451-3279, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or through the county’s Community and Economic Development page.
This is bigger than one document
The general plan is the headline, but it is not the whole job. Planning Outpost, the firm the county hired for the work, says its contract — awarded at the commission’s regular meeting on Dec. 16, 2025 — also covers the county’s Resource Management Plan, Title 14 (Development and Roadways) and Title 15 (Land Use and Development Management).
Those last two are the practical ones. Title 14 governs how roads get built and what a developer has to put in the ground. Title 15 governs what can be built where, and how an application moves through review. A general plan describes intent; Titles 14 and 15 are the rules that carry it out.
Who this actually affects
A county general plan governs unincorporated Davis County and shapes how the county itself handles roads and development review. If you live inside one of the county’s 15 cities, your city’s own general plan and zoning ordinance still govern your lot. But county road standards, county development review and the county’s long-range growth assumptions reach well past the unincorporated boundary lines — especially on the corridors and canyon approaches that cities share.
How to stay in the loop
Commission agendas are posted to Utah’s Public Notice Website ahead of each meeting, and comments on agenda items can be emailed to commissioners@daviscountyutah.gov by 5 p.m. the day before. Meetings are livestreamed on the county’s YouTube channel, and recordings plus meeting audio are attached to each notice afterward.
Sources
Davis County Commission, Notice of Public Hearing on modifications to the General Plan (posted Sept. 4, 2026) and regular meeting agenda for Sept. 15, 2026, both posted by the Davis County Clerk’s Office on Utah’s Public Notice Website. Scope of the consultant contract from Planning Outpost’s own announcement of the December 2025 award.
