Taylorsville, UT Solar Energy: Panel Permits (2026)

Section 13.11.200 applies to all private and public solar heating developments except where design review is preempted by State or Federal law. Every building permit application for a structure with a solar installation goes to the Community Development Department, which checks compliance before approval. Collectors cannot reflect sunlight into neighboring windows, and the installation cannot rise higher than the roof ridgeline, or a parapet wall on a flat roof. On a residential roof, panels may stand no more than 2 feet above the roof surface; on a commercial roof, up to 5 feet, provided the array is properly screened.

Collector frames must be a color compatible with the roof, and piping must blend with the surface it is attached to. To obtain the permit, an applicant submits a site plan, drawings of existing building elevations, landscaping and screening plans, the kind, color and texture of materials to be used, and any other information the Director finds necessary. The same chapter separately regulates ground- and roof-mounted satellite earth stations and wind energy conversion systems under neighboring sections, but solar equipment specifically is reviewed through the building-permit process described in subsection A, with the Community Development Department as the reviewing authority rather than the Planning Commission, which only becomes involved for satellite dish height exceptions or wind tower joint-ownership approvals in those adjacent sections.