15.15.010 General Requirements.
In order to assure orderly growth and development of the community and protect the general interest of the taxpaying public as well as the rights of individual property owners who wish to annex to the City, the following specific guidelines are established:
(1) That no annexation fee be charged. The City’s policy of requiring developers to provide for improvements through a bond procedure or through a special improvement district makes it unnecessary for the City to assess general impact fees at the time of annexation. Developers will, however, be subject to appropriate fees to offset the cost to the City of planning and supervision of subdividing, and the providing of utilities as those fees are provided for throughout the Provo City Code, other ordinance of the City or by resolution duly passed. A party annexing property will likewise be charged for services of the City for preparation of the annexation plat if that work is done by the City rather than by a private engineer or surveyor.
(2) That every annexation includes the greatest amount of property possible, be a contiguous area and be contiguous to the City’s municipal boundaries.
(3) That piecemeal annexation of individual small properties not be allowed if contiguous parcels, soon to be developed, are available, in order to avoid repetitious annexation.
(4) No pocket or islands of county jurisdiction shall be left or created, and peninsulas and irregular boundaries shall be minimized, unless all the following criteria are met:
(a) The area is within Provo City’s expansion area, as defined in Utah Code Section 10-2-401;
(b) The specified county in which the area is located and Provo City agree to the annexation;
(c) The area is not within the area of another municipality’s annexation policy plan, unless the other municipality agrees to the annexation; and
(d) The annexation is for the purpose of providing municipal services to the area.
(5) That annexations generally follow existing roads, utilities and property lines in order to minimize the public expense for extension of main or service lines and streets.
(6) That in order to facilitate the consolidation of overlapping functions of local government, promote the efficient delivery of services, encourage the equitable distribution of community resources and obligations and eliminate islands and peninsulas of territory that are not receiving municipal services, the boundaries of an area proposed for annexation shall be drawn, where practicable and feasible, along the boundaries of existing special districts for sewer, water, and other services, along the boundaries of school districts whose boundaries follow City boundaries or school districts adjacent to school districts whose boundaries follow City boundaries, and along the boundaries of other taxing entities.
(7) That City utilities and services not be extended to unincorporated properties on the fringes of the City nor to islands of unincorporated property. In order to provide for orderly growth and development in the City and to avoid confusion and undue cost to the taxpayers, all utility and service hook-ons shall be limited to incorporated areas of the City and shall not be made available extraterritorially. The only exception shall be to those extensions which are made pursuant to agreements with other units of government under the Interlocal Government Cooperation Act, or by specific approval of the Municipal Council on request of the Mayor.
(8) That utilities be extended to annexed areas as soon as practicable after annexation.
(a) Each annexation should require a disclosure by the developer of anticipated needs of utilities and street improvements and a timetable of anticipated development.
(b) Needed utilities should be extended into the annexed area as soon as practicable subject to budgetary limitations and extensions of main and service lines should be chargeable to the property development rather than to the public generally.