West Jordan, UT Landscaping Rules: Artificial Turf (2026)
Key Facts
- Artificial turf status
- named as permitted park strip material
- Lawn/sod/turf status
- banned in all park strips citywide
- Tree requirement
- one tree per 25 feet of park strip frontage
- Covered use types
- multi-family, business/research park, commercial, manufacturing
- Single-family park strips
- turf banned but artificial turf not separately listed
Summary
West Jordan names artificial turf as an approved park strip material for multi-family, business/research park, commercial/professional office, and manufacturing developments, while banning lawn, sod, and turf from that same strip under City Code 13-13-6.
4. Park Strip Landscaping: Any combination of ornamental plants, shrubs, herbaceous perennial, ground cover plants, pavers, ornamental gravel, ornamental concrete, boulders, bark mulch and artificial turf is permitted in the park strip. Lawn/sod/turf is prohibited in park strips. One tree per twenty-five feet (25') of frontage is required.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-38: Code current through: Ord. 26-33, passed 6-23-2026).
Full Breakdown
Section 13-13-6 sets landscaping rules for specific land uses. 4 lists any combination of ornamental plants, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, ground cover, pavers, ornamental gravel, ornamental concrete, boulders, bark mulch, and artificial turf as permitted park strip material, while lawn, sod, and turf are prohibited there, and one tree is required per twenty-five feet of frontage. 2). a bans lawn, sod, and turf from new single-family park strips, paths under eight feet wide, and slopes over 25%, but that subsection does not itself name artificial turf as a listed alternative the way the multi-family and commercial provisions do, so single-family park strip artificial turf falls outside this section's explicit permission list.
Chapter-wide, section 13-13-3 requires landscape and irrigation plans with final site plans, and section 13-13-4 requires an inspection confirming installed landscaping matches the approved plan before a certificate of occupancy issues.
Violations & Fines
Installing prohibited lawn, sod, or turf in a covered park strip instead of one of the listed alternatives, or skipping the required one-tree-per-25-feet frontage planting, is a code violation that can hold up the section 13-13-4 pre-occupancy landscape inspection. Chapter 13-13 has no standalone penalty section, so a confirmed violation defaults to the citywide penalty in section 1-14B-1, a Class B misdemeanor.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What about a single-family home's park strip?
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Sources & Official References
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