Weber County, UT Water Use Rules: Turf Replacement Rebates (2026)

Adopted by Ordinance 2023-29 on October 24, 2023 and amended May 26, 2026, § 108-7-12 sets water-wise landscaping standards for all new development in unincorporated Weber County. Single-family residential lots may irrigate turf grass on no more than 35 percent of the front and side yard, or 3,000 square feet of the entire lot, whichever number is larger. Commercial, industrial, institutional, and multi-family developments are held to a tighter 15 percent of total landscaped area, though the cap does not reach active recreational areas that meet Weber Basin Water Conservancy District's design and landscape standards.

Irrigated turf is banned outright in any parkstrip and in any other yard strip narrower than eight feet, regardless of percentage. Landscaping in place before the section's September 26, 2023 effective date is grandfathered as nonconforming, but it must be phased into compliance whenever it is replaced, or whenever a site improvement requiring a land use permit, conditional use permit, or design review modifies an area exceeding the smaller of 25 percent of the site or 20,000 square feet. Compliance is checked at the land use permit and design review stage administered by the Planning Division; a landscape plan that does not show the turf-area math can be grounds to deny or condition approval.

Because the section sits inside Title 108's supplemental development standards, it binds new subdivisions, commercial site plans, and multi-family projects reviewed by the county, not resales or unmodified existing yards outside the phase-in triggers described above.