West Jordan, UT Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

Section 13-5I-13, "Development Plan, Land Use Element And Architectural Review," is the article that ties the City Center zone's written code to its adopted design documents. Subsection B, "Land Use Element And Design Guidelines," explains that development within the city center zone has to satisfy standards from five separate sources working together: the transit station overlay district requirements in chapter 6, article G of title 13, the adopted "Parks, Recreation, Trails And Open Space Handbook," the West Jordan downtown revitalization design guidelines, and the West Jordan downtown revitalization land use element, the last two both prepared by LMN Architects. The code text itself is the legal standard for approvals, while the design guidelines, land use element and open space handbook are used for reference to determine what can and cannot be built in the zone; where the article and those reference documents conflict, the more restrictive language governs.

That framework has teeth in practice. Subsection A requires every development plan submittal in the City Center zone to include a statement of how the project meets "all building and development guidelines of the West Jordan downtown revitalization design guidelines," and larger projects (over two acres) must also submit an independent real estate market analysis. Subsection C then routes every proposed City Center development through the design review committee, which can require design changes to bring a project into compliance with the architectural character the guidelines call for before the planning commission signs off on the development plan under section 15-3-8.