K.S.A. 19-2901 et seq. — County Planning and Zoning Enabling Act (incl. 19-2914 amendment procedure) (KS)

Tracked preemption from the Kansas overlay bundle.

Overview

Effective
1939-07-01
Sunset
Authority
state
Scope
state:KS

Trigger predicate

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

city.governance_type == county

Preempted fields

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

FieldOpValueNote
zoning_ordinance.procedural_floorrequire19_2901_compliantCounty zoning must follow K.S.A. 19-2901 through 19-2936; counties have statutory rather than constitutional home rule, so zoning authority is strictly delegated.
zoning_ordinance.text_or_map_amendment_supermajorityrequire75pct_on_protest_petitionK.S.A. 19-2914 mirrors 12-753 — a qualifying protest petition triggers a 3/4 supermajority of the board of county commissioners.
zoning_ordinance.urban_area_provisionspermit19_2927_optionalK.S.A. 19-2927 et seq. — counties may adopt urban-area planning provisions (Johnson County is the principal example). Adoption is optional and only constrains counties that have opted in.

Citation

Authority source
K.S.A. 19-2901 through 19-2936
§ K.S.A. 19-2901 (planning commission); 19-2914 (amendment / protest); 19-2921 (ag-use exemption — separate overlay); 19-2927 (urban-area provisions)
https://kslegislature.org/li/b2025_26/statute/019_000_0000_chapter/019_029_0000_article/

Research notes

Framework overlay for unincorporated county zoning. The agricultural-use exemption at 19-2921 is broken out separately because it is the single most-litigated substantive constraint on county zoning authority. ETJ scenarios (city zoning extending into unincorporated county under 12-715b) require coordination but the county chapter governs unincorporated parcels not under city ETJ.