Nebraska Chapter 19 — Municipal Zoning Procedural Floor (NE)
Tracked preemption from the Nebraska overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1929-01-01
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:NE
Other Nebraska preemptions
Nebraska LB 614 (2025) — ETJ Farm-Building Exemption (Enabling)Nebraska LB 266 (2025) — Statewide Rent-Control PreemptionNebraska LB 866 (2020) — Municipal Density and Missing Middle Housing Act (Reporting + Action Plan)Nebraska §18-1758 (LB 57, 2019) — Short-Term Rental Partial PreemptionNebraska LB 840 — Local Option Municipal Economic Development Act (Enabling Only)Nebraska §19-904 — Manufactured Home Zoning ParityNebraska §§71-4603 et seq. — Manufactured Housing Act (Installer/Dealer Licensing)Offutt AFB AICUZ — Federal Military Airfield Compatible-Use Overlay (Bellevue / Sarpy County)
Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
city.city_class ∈ {first, second, village}Preempted fields
4 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
comprehensive_plan_required | override | True | §19-903 — regulations in accordance with a comprehensive plan |
planning_commission_required | override | True | §19-907 — planning commission required |
protest_petition_supermajority | override | True | §19-906 — changes require supermajority on protest petitions |
board_of_adjustment_required | override | True | §§19-908 to 19-912 — variances and appeals |
Citation
Authority source
Neb. Rev. Stat. §§19-901 to 19-933
§ Chapter 19 — Municipal zoning enabling (cities of first class, second class, villages)
Research notes
Primarily an enabling statute, not a preemption statute. Imposes a procedural floor (comprehensive plan, planning commission, public hearings, protest-petition supermajority) below which cities cannot exercise zoning power. Metropolitan-class (Omaha, Chapter 14) and primary-class (Lincoln, Chapter 15) have parallel chapter-specific frameworks but Chapter 19 provisions control as a uniform statewide floor where state law imposes a uniform rule (e.g., §19-904 manufactured-home parity).