Washington County, UT Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)

Code § 10-10-4, subsection B, titled 'Trash And Combustible Materials; Junk And Debris,' bars trash, rubbish, weeds or other combustible material from remaining on any lot outside of approved containers in any commercial zone, and separately bars junk, debris or junk cars or similar material from being stored or allowed to remain on any lot in any commercial zone. The same section's subsection A requires that any stored materials or merchandise, other than vehicles in running order, be kept inside an enclosed building or behind a sight-obscuring fence or wall at least six feet tall, with nothing stacked higher than that enclosure.

Subsection C requires solid waste storage facilities to sit at the rear of the main building or behind a sight-obscuring fence or wall so they cannot be seen from a public street. A parallel provision for the county's Planned Development zones, listed at title 10, chapter 9 as item 15 under special provisions, uses nearly identical language, barring trash, rubbish, weeds, tumbleweeds or other combustible material on any property outside approved containers, and barring junk, debris, abandoned, inoperable or dismantled vehicles or vessels, in any PD zone.

Both provisions were adopted by the county commission as part of the commercial and planned development zone chapters, with § 10-10-4 tracing to Ordinance 2010-999-O.