Weber County, UT Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Encroachment Permits (2026)

Chapter 32-4 of the Weber County Code fixes exact geometry for county roads before it bans encroachment. Section 32-4-1 sets the curbline distance from a road's center, from 50 feet on eight-rod highways down to 12.5 feet on two-rod lanes, and sets the sidewalk width between that curbline and the outer fence line, from 16 feet on eight-rod highways down to 4 feet on two-rod lanes, plus a 2-foot tree space along highways four rods or wider. Section 32-4-2 then makes it unlawful to extend or construct any sidewalk so as to encroach upon a highway nearer to the center than the curbline, to encroach upon a sidewalk with any building, fence, wall or post nearer than the fence line, or to make a sidewalk narrower than the fixed widths. Unlike Chapter 32-5's rule for utility poles, which lets a person obtain permission on a grant of right-of-way from the Board of County Commissioners under Section 32-5-1, Section 32-4-2 provides no permit or variance path: any encroachment on the designated sidewalk footprint is flatly unlawful.

The section recodifies former Code of 1985 Section 23-5-2 and has not been amended since the county's 2013 recodification, though its underlying road-width scheme dates to the original 1985 code. Because the rule is measured from the platted highway width, whether an eight-rod, six-rod or two-rod road, a property owner planning a fence, wall, post or building near a county road in the unincorporated area needs to confirm the road's rod classification with the county surveyor before building, since the curbline and fence line shift with it.