Eagle Mountain, UT Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

Chapter 17.58 of the Eagle Mountain Municipal Code, the Historical Preservation Overlay Zone chapter, lets any person, including private landowners, submit a possible important historical or archaeological site to the city (17.58.030). To qualify for designation, a site must meet three required criteria under 17.58.040: it must lie within Eagle Mountain's boundaries, its contributing items must be at least 100 years old by record or expert determination, and the site must retain integrity without major alterations that obscure or destroy its significant features. It must also meet at least one of five additional criteria, including listing or eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places under 36 CFR 60.6(s), association with significant historic events or persons, distinctive construction character, or research value.

Designation runs through the historic preservation board: an owner, resident, city body or staff files an application, planning staff and the board consult experts or state historic preservation officers, and the board holds a public meeting with mailed notice to the property owner at least 10 business days beforehand before it may designate the site a landmark structure and add it to the Eagle Mountain Historic and Archaeological City Register (17.58.050). Once on the register, a property may be considered for a historic preservation overlay zone, applied through the standard rezoning process in Chapter 17.90 with modifications requiring proof of city register status in the zoning application (17.58.060, 17.58.013).

Before any preliminary plat covering a designated site is approved, planning staff must evaluate development impacts and consider density transfers, building rights transfers or open space credits to avoid disturbing the site (17.58.080), and any conditional use, excavation or construction permit for a parcel containing such a site requires a detailed protection plan from the applicant (17.58.090).