Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve & Flint Hills Physiographic Region — Federal & Cultural Landscape Overlay (KS)

Tracked preemption from the Kansas overlay bundle.

Overview

Effective
1996-11-12
Sunset
Authority
federal
Scope
state:KS

Trigger predicate

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

OR
  • parcel.geometry geographic match
  • city.in_flint_hills_physiographic_region == True
  • parcel.in_chase_county_preserve_buffer == True

Preempted fields

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

FieldOpValueNote
review_typerequirenps_consultation_for_adjacent_developmentDevelopment directly abutting or with visual/audible impact on the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (~10,894 acres in Chase County) requires NPS consultation under NEPA / Section 106; the National Park Trust and The Nature Conservancy hold large adjoining conservation easements that further constrain adjacent development.
base_districts[*].wind_energy_siting_reviewrequireflint_hills_landscape_reviewThe Flint Hills physiographic region (largest intact remnant of tallgrass prairie in North America) is the subject of a long-running cultural-landscape protection regime through county-level wind-siting moratoria and the Tallgrass Heartland Partnership; the overlay flags siting review even where no state statute directly preempts.

Citation

Authority source
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Act, P.L. 104-333 (1996); NPS management plan; Flint Hills landscape protection framework (county-level wind-siting policies, Tallgrass Heartland Partnership)
§ P.L. 104-333 (1996)
https://www.nps.gov/tapr/index.htm

Research notes

Cultural-landscape overlay capturing both the federally designated TPNP unit and the broader Flint Hills physiographic region (Chase, Greenwood, Butler, Cowley, Wabaunsee, Geary, Riley, Morris, Lyon, Marion, Elk, Chautauqua counties). State of Kansas has no statute directly protecting the Flint Hills landscape, but county-level wind-energy siting moratoria (Chase, Wabaunsee, Lyon) have produced the same practical effect for tall-structure siting. Federal conflict check enabled because NPS is the federal authority for TPNP.