The best way to track development applications in Utah

The most complete free way to track development applications in Utah is to subscribe by email to your city's planning commission and city council on the Utah Public Notice Website (utah.gov/pmn), because local public bodies post their meeting notices and agendas there. Add your city's own planning pages for projects that aren't on an agenda yet, and use a summary service such as Utah Land-Use Radar or Utah Construction Signals to scan many cities at once. Always treat the official agenda or notice as the record.

Last verified: October 30, 2026. Third-party features and prices below come from each service's own pages, fetched that day; they can change. This is a practical guide, not legal advice.

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What you're actually tracking

In Utah, most development applications become visible to the public when they reach a public meeting agenda. A rezone, for example, requires a public hearing, and state law sets how notice of it is given:

• Notice of the first public hearing on a new or changed land use regulation must be mailed to affected entities at least 10 calendar days before the hearing, and given as a class B notice for the area directly affected for at least 10 calendar days. If the change is "ministerial in nature" (for example, a citywide recodification), a class A notice is enough (Utah Code 10-20-205 for cities; 17-79-205 for counties).
• Owners inside a proposed zoning map change get a courtesy notice at least 10 days before the hearing, and may file a written objection no later than 10 days after the first hearing (10-20-205(5); 17-79-205(5)).
• Each public meeting on the change needs class A notice at least 24 hours ahead (10-20-205(4)), and every public body must give at least 24 hours' notice of each meeting, including its agenda (52-4-202).

The notice classes are defined in 63G-30-102. A class A notice is published on the Utah Public Notice Website, on the body's own website if it has one and an annual operating budget of $250,000 or more, and posted in a public place. A class B notice adds mailing or delivery to each residence and property owner in the designated area.

For annexations, a city must give class B notice for the area proposed for annexation and any unincorporated area within half a mile, no later than 10 days after it certifies the petition (10-2-808). Before a petition circulates, the county mails a notice to owners in the area and within 300 feet of it (10-2-806). See how rezones and annexations work in Utah for the full process.

Two practical consequences:

1. The mailed notice may not reach you. Class B mailing goes to the designated area. If you live a few blocks away, you may only find out from the agenda.
2. Agenda-based tools only see what reaches an agenda. If an application is handled without a public meeting, or hasn't been scheduled yet, the Public Notice Website and any service built on agendas won't show it. City project pages and records portals fill some of that gap.

Option 1: The Utah Public Notice Website (utah.gov/pmn)

The Utah Public Notice Website is run by the Division of Archives and Records Service. Its About page calls it "a central source for all public notice information statewide."

How to use it

• Find your bodies. Browse by government type, then entity (your city), then public body. For development, the bodies that matter are usually the planning commission and the city council (or county council or commission).
• Subscribe. Each public body's page has a "Subscribe by Email" option. The site's FAQ says subscriptions are made individually to each body, the body must have published at least one notice first, and a subscription notifies you of new notices and updates to existing ones.
• RSS. The site's Help page says subscriptions are available by "RSS feed and Email," but when we checked on October 30, 2026, the public body and notice pages (for example, this planning commission page) offered only "Subscribe by Email," with no RSS link, and no feed URL we tried worked. Plan on email.
• Search. The advanced search filters by entity or body name, notice title keywords, agenda keywords, tags and dates. Searching agenda keywords for a street name or "rezone" can surface items across many bodies.
• Look near you. The home page has a "Meetings and Events Around Me" search by ZIP code and date range.
• Add to calendar. Individual notice pages have an "Add Notice to Calendar" link.

Strengths: Free, official, statewide, and close to the source. Notice published here is part of the legally required class A notice.

Limits: You subscribe one body at a time, so following a city council and planning commission in three cities means six subscriptions. Alerts tell you a notice was posted, not what's in it; you still open the agenda PDF and read it. Agendas list items by title and often by petition number, which can be hard to read without the staff report.

Verdict: The best free baseline. If you only do one thing, subscribe to your city's planning commission and council here.

Option 2: Your city's or county's own agenda portal and planning pages

Most cities also post agendas on their own website or an agenda platform, and some go further. Examples, as shown on each city's pages on October 30, 2026:

• Salt Lake City Planning has a "Subscribe to our Newsletters" link for project updates, public meetings and engagement opportunities, and an Online Open Houses page listing active projects by address, application type and petition number, with a comment window and staff contact. The page points to the city's Citizen Access Portal and Infobase for records not shown there. Open house pages for individual projects say the city notifies owners and residents within 300 feet (example). That goes beyond the state minimums above, which cities are allowed to do.
• Lehi posts meeting agendas on its Meetings and Agendas page, where you can submit written comments through eComment before noon on the meeting day.
• West Jordan says its agendas and minutes have been in a PrimeGov portal since July 13, 2022.
• Draper links Planning Commission agendas and minutes and says its business meetings are Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

For unincorporated areas, county planning bodies post agendas the same way. County parcel viewers and recorder sites let you look up who owns a parcel and what has been recorded against it. They are useful once you know an address, but they are not an alert system.

Strengths: The richest detail (staff reports, project pages, comment instructions), sometimes before an item reaches an agenda. Some cities offer email lists.

Limits: Every city does it differently, so following more than one city is real work. Email options vary, and what one city offers tells you nothing about the next.

Verdict: Essential for your own city, especially for project pages and comment deadlines. Following several cities this way is slow, because you have to learn each city's site separately.

Option 3: Utah Construction Signals

Utah Construction Signals describes itself as "for Utah contractors, subs and suppliers" and focuses on commercial projects. As described on its own pages on October 30, 2026:

• Coverage. Its About & sources page says "171 official sources across 124 cities" (updated 2026-10-29). The list includes planning commissions and city council land-use items from the Utah Public Notice Website in many counties, plus some city sources such as Orem's project list and building-permit reports, Ogden's building-permit reports, and Provo planning applications. Coverage is thinner in Salt Lake and Utah counties than the total suggests: on October 30, 2026 that list had no city council source for Salt Lake City, Sandy, Draper, West Jordan, West Valley City, South Jordan, Murray, Lehi or Provo, listed Orem's project list, public notices and permit reports but no Orem council or planning commission agendas, and marked its Utah County Planning Commission source "STALE."
• What it shows. Planning-commission and council land-use items, city project lists, and issued building permits. Items are tagged by category, stage and likely trades using what it calls deterministic, published rules, and each item links to its official source.
• Cost and alerts. Pricing (labeled "Early pricing"): Free ($0) for browsing, source links and a free weekly digest (its home page offers a free Monday email by city, county or trade). Professional, $39/mo, adds same-day alerts by city, trade and stage, up to 5 saved searches, CSV export, and permit contractor names, valuations and streets. Business, $79/mo, raises saved searches to 25 and adds priority source requests.
• Freshness. It says sources are checked on a schedule, each page shows when its source was last checked, and stale sources are flagged.
• Its own caveats. It says it is independent, that agenda items and project-list entries "are not permits, bids or leads," and that "information may be stale or incorrect."

Strengths: Wide geography, building permits as well as agendas, and trade-based filtering. A good fit if you follow commercial construction for business.

Limits: Built for commercial and trade relevance, so residential neighbors may find it skips what they care about (its home page counts "high-relevance projects"). Same-day alerts are paid. Not official notice.

Verdict: The strongest of the four for contractors and suppliers tracking commercial work across many cities. For a resident following one neighborhood, less of a fit.

Also on the market: PoliMatics Local. PoliMatics Local describes itself as a weekly feed of "every rezoning, annexation, and new subdivision" in Utah's cities and counties, compiled from public meeting records and built for homebuilder land teams, land brokers and site-work contractors. On October 30, 2026 its page offered a free sample by email but listed no prices and no source list, so we could not check its coverage.

Option 4: Utah Land-Use Radar (this site)

We run this site, so weigh this section accordingly. How it works covers the method in full.

• Coverage. City and town councils and planning commissions in Salt Lake County and Utah County only, plus the Greater Salt Lake Municipal Services District and the two counties: 114 public bodies across 50 local governments. Nothing outside those two counties.
• Source and timing. It reads each body's page on the Utah Public Notice Website once a day at 13:00 UTC (7 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, 6 a.m. Mountain Standard Time), for meetings from 28 days back to 45 days ahead. A notice posted after the morning read shows up the next day.
• How items are made. It converts agenda PDFs to text and uses AI to pull out land-use items and write plain-language summaries. No person reviews each item before it appears. In a spot check on October 29, 2026, 18 of 22 items were fully correct. The other four had errors, including an invented acreage. Some scanned PDFs can't be read, and PDFs over 20 MB aren't OCR'd.
• Cost and alerts. Browsing is free. You can sign up for a free weekly digest for one city, but digest emails are not being sent yet. A paid county tier is listed but not open.
• Not official. Summaries are of public records. They are not legal notice, and the linked agenda is always the authority. To report an error, see contact and corrections.

Strengths: One place to scan every council and planning commission agenda in two counties, with items pulled out of long PDFs and linked to the source. Good for asking "what's coming up near me this month?"

Limits: Two counties only, about a day of lag, AI errors, no building permits, no alerts yet, and it misses anything that never reaches an agenda.

Verdict: A quick way to scan Salt Lake and Utah County agendas. Not a replacement for the official notice or a Public Notice Website subscription.

Which should you use?

• A resident watching one neighborhood: Subscribe to your city's planning commission and council on the Public Notice Website, and check your city's planning project pages. Use a summary site to skim; use the agenda to act.
• Someone following several cities in Salt Lake or Utah County: Scan Utah Land-Use Radar's city pages, then open the source agenda for anything that matters. Keep Public Notice Website subscriptions for the bodies you care most about until digest emails start.
• A contractor or supplier looking for commercial work statewide: Utah Construction Signals is built for that, including issued permits.
• Anyone who needs to comment or object: Go by the official notice and the city's instructions. Deadlines run from those, such as the 10-day window for an owner's written objection to a zoning map change (10-20-205(5)).

To read the agenda items themselves, our Utah zoning codes guide explains common zone abbreviations.

FAQ

Is there one statewide list of development applications in Utah? No single list covers every application. The Utah Public Notice Website is the closest statewide source for meeting notices and agendas, but applications that never reach a public meeting won't appear there, and each city keeps its own application records.

How do I get email alerts for my city's planning commission? On the Utah Public Notice Website, open your city's planning commission page and use "Subscribe by Email." You must subscribe to each public body separately. Some cities also run their own email lists; Salt Lake City Planning, for example, offers newsletters.

How much notice does a Utah city have to give before a rezone hearing? At least 10 calendar days. Notice of the first public hearing must be mailed to affected entities and given as a class B notice for the affected area for at least 10 calendar days, and owners inside the proposed zoning map change get a courtesy notice at least 10 days before the hearing (Utah Code 10-20-205). Counties follow the same rules under 17-79-205. Cities may require more.

Will I get a letter if something is proposed near my house? Only if you're in the area that must be notified. Class B notice is mailed to residences and owners in the designated area (63G-30-102). For a zoning map change, that area is the area directly affected by the change (10-20-205). Some cities notify a wider radius; Salt Lake City says it notifies owners and residents within 300 feet. If you're outside that area, the agenda may be the only notice you see.

Are Utah Land-Use Radar and Utah Construction Signals official sources? No. Both are independent and both say so. They summarize public records and link to them. The official agenda or notice is the record, and any deadline runs from it.

Does Utah Land-Use Radar send alerts? Not yet. You can sign up for a free weekly digest for one city, but digest emails are not being sent yet. In the meantime, the Public Notice Website's email subscriptions are the free way to get alerts.

Find your city

See what's on the agendas where you live: Salt Lake City, Provo, Sandy, Lehi, or all cities on the home page. For county agenda items and unincorporated areas, see Salt Lake County or Utah County. New to the terms? Start with the guides.