Utah County
Land development in Utah County
Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs, Lehi, Cedar Fort, Fairfield, Spanish Fork, Payson, Santaquin, and the unincorporated county. What approval takes, what utilities cost, and where the lots are.
What decides whether a parcel pencils here
Zoning and lot yield
Inside a city the minimum lot size sets the yield: Eagle Mountain's residential zones run from quarter-acre lots up to one-acre ranch lots, Provo and Lehi allow 7,000 to 8,000 square foot lots in their R zones. In the unincorporated county, RA-5 means five-acre lots with 250 feet of frontage, and Fairfield's A/R-10 means ten acres. The ordinance section, not the sales pitch, is what we read first.
Sewer and culinary water
Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs, Lehi, and the Utah Valley cities serve their own sewer and water, and a will-serve letter comes before any approval. Cedar Fort and Fairfield are septic and small water systems, which caps density and makes soils matter. A parcel with no sewer within a mile is a different, more expensive project.
Water rights
Cities require water to be dedicated with the plat. Cedar Valley parcels often come without enough, so the price of water rights per acre-foot is part of every screen we run. We broker water rights, so we can solve this rather than walk away from it.
Costs that have moved
Excavation and improvement costs have risen sharply. Some Eagle Mountain communities carry a public infrastructure district assessment on top of property taxes, which affects what a builder will pay for the lot. Greenbelt rollback tax applies to most farmed parcels at closing.
What we have done in Utah County
Eagle Mountain
Firefly Ranch
Horse, lifestyle, and arena lots over an acre in the Firefly community.
View →Cedar Fort
James Way
One to 2.3 acre lots with no HOA, no CC&Rs, and no PID.
View →Eagle Mountain
Browns Meadow
Acre lots off Browns Meadow Road, brokered to builders and owner-builders.
View →Josh works from Eagle Mountain and screens every parcel in Utah County between 3 and 40 acres against zoning, utilities, water, slope, soils, and access. If you own one of them, we may already know your parcel.
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