Arkansas State Parks & Heritage Trails — Scenic Adjacency (Mount Magazine, Pinnacle Mountain, Crooked Creek) (AR)

Tracked preemption from the Arkansas overlay bundle.

Overview

Effective
1937-01-01
Sunset
Authority
state
Scope
state:AR

Trigger predicate

When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.

OR
  • city.state_park_adjacency == True
  • parcel.adjacent_to_state_park == True
  • city.heritage_trail_adjacency == True
  • parcel.in_crooked_creek_corridor == True

Preempted fields

2 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.

FieldOpValueNote
base_districts[*].state_park_adjacency_reviewaddscenic_viewshed_light_pollution_corridor_coordinationArkansas State Parks (Division of State Parks under Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, §13-4-101 et seq.) comments on adjacent development; not a binding preemption absent local overlay adoption
review_typeaddasp_advisory_reviewAdvisory only; cities with adopted scenic-corridor overlays (Eureka Springs, Mountain View, Mountain Home, Hot Springs Village) bind it locally

Citation

Authority source
Ark. Code Ann. §§13-4-101 et seq. (Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism / Division of State Parks); §§13-9-101 et seq. (Arkansas Heritage Trails / Trails Council)
§ §§13-4-101 et seq.; §§13-9-101 et seq.
https://www.arkansasstateparks.com/

Research notes

Headline state parks driving adjacency overlays: Mount Magazine SP (Logan County — highest point in AR at 2,753 ft, scenic-corridor overlay common in Paris and Booneville plans), Pinnacle Mountain SP (Pulaski County — west of Little Rock, embedded in the Little Rock 2040 plan), Petit Jean SP (Conway County — first AR state park, Morrilton scenic corridor), Devil's Den SP (Washington County), Crater of Diamonds SP (Pike County — Murfreesboro), Lake Fort Smith SP (Crawford County). Crooked Creek is an Ozark blue-ribbon smallmouth-bass tributary running through Marion and Boone counties — Yellville and Harrison have river-corridor overlays. Heritage Trails network: Arkansas Civil War Trails, Trail of Tears NHT, Butterfield Overland Mail Route, and the Buffalo River Trail interpretive corridor.