Updated Resolution - 3/24/2024RESOLUTION NO. ________ OF 2024
RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO ANNEX CERTAIN UNINCORPORATED PROPERTIES
NORTH-NORTHEAST OF THE SALT LAKE CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND
NEAR THE SALT LAKE COUNTY BORDER WITH DAVIS COUNTY
PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE SECTION 10-2-418
WHEREAS, Utah Code Section 10-2-418 allows a municipality to annex unincorporated
areas without an annexation petition under certain circumstances; and
WHEREAS, some owners of real property north of 2100 North Street and adjacent to
2200 West Street in unincorporated Salt Lake County near the Salt Lake County-Davis County
border (the “Properties”) have expressed interest in annexing their land into Salt Lake City’s
corporate limits; and
WHEREAS, collectively, the Properties are contiguous to the corporate limits of Salt
Lake City and are identified within an expansion area described as “Study Area 1 - West
Airport” in the city’s annexation policy plan titled, “A MASTER ANNEXATION POLICY
DECLARATION for Salt Lake City, Utah” adopted in 1979 and as shown on the map
accompanying that plan titled, “SALT LAKE CITY Annexation Policy Declaration Proposed
Future Boundaries”; and
WHEREAS, a majority of the area consists of residential or commercial development
with fewer than 800 residents; and
WHEREAS, in addition to the privately-owned land in the proposed annexation area,
over 200 acres of the Properties are owned by Salt Lake City Corporation, the majority of which
was acquired through federal grants for such land to be used for airport purposes; and
WHEREAS, the Properties constitute an unincorporated peninsula, as that term is defined
in Utah Code Section 10-2-401; and
WHEREAS, Salt Lake County Council approved an annexation near Rose Park Lane
with the contingency that Salt Lake City make efforts to annex all of the unincorporated areas to
the west and north of the Property; and
WHEREAS, most of the area in the proposed annexation has received some Salt Lake
City municipal-type services for many years and continue to receive those utility services; and
WHEREAS, as part of an effort by private property owners to annex a portion of the
Properties into North Salt Lake City in recent years, North Salt Lake City amended its
annexation policy plan in 2021 to include some of the proposed annexation areas into that city’s
proposed expansion area; and
WHEREAS, some owners who sponsored the effort to annex into North Salt Lake City
are now supportive of annexing into Salt Lake City’s corporate boundaries; and
WHEREAS, Utah Code Subsection 10-2-418(2) requires that unincorporated areas that
are within the expansion areas of more than one municipality must receive the consent of all
other municipalities whose annexation policy plans include the subject area in their respective
expansion areas in order to annex the area; and
WHEREAS, in pursuing its intent to annex the Properties, Salt Lake City acknowledges
that it must receive the consent of North Salt Lake City before annexation of the Properties can
be completed; and
WHEREAS, because the Properties are within Salt Lake City’s expansion area in its 1979
annexation policy plan and because the Properties are collectively congruous to Salt Lake City
corporate limits, the Salt Lake City Council finds that adopting this resolution of intent to annex
the Properties identified in Exhibit A hereto is in the city’s and private property owners’ best
interests.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
That Salt Lake City intends to pursue annexation of the area shown on the map in Exhibit
“A” into Salt Lake City pursuant to Utah Code Section 10-2-418.
DATED this ______ day of ________________, 2024.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah, this _____ day of
________________, 2024.
SALT LAKE CITY COUNCIL
By:___________________________
CHAIRPERSON
ATTEST AND COUNTERSIGN:
______________________________
CITY RECORDER
Resolution intent to annex properties per 10-2-418
APPROVED AS TO FORM
Salt Lake City Attorney’s Office
Date:__________________________________
By: ___________________________________
Paul C. Nielson, Senior City Attorney
March 18, 2024
EXHIBIT “A”
(map of proposed area to be annexed)