1. Zoning Regulations. The provisions of this Chapter pertaining to zoning regulations are recommended by the Manhattan Urban Area Planning Board, hereinafter, Planning Board, and adopted by the City Commission, pursuant to state statutes.
2. Subdivision Regulations. The provisions of this Chapter pertaining to the subdivision of land—specifically, Article 26-5 and Division 26-9C—are adopted by the Planning Board, and approved by the Board of Riley County Commissioners, Kansas, and the Manhattan City Commission, pursuant to the Interlocal Agreement between the City of Manhattan and Riley County, dated February 6, 2001, as amended.

1. Implement the Manhattan Urban Area Comprehensive Plan, together with other adopted plans (see also Sec. 26-1B-1, Consistency with Plans).
2. Preserve and improve the public health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens and businesses of Manhattan and its urban area.
3. Provide for the efficient and conservative use of land and public resources.
4. Protect and enable walking and bicycling as viable modes of transportation.
5. Provide for adequate privacy; to secure safety from fire, flood, and other danger.

6. Provide reasonable standards of development without infringing on the laws of the United States or Kansas, or the rights guaranteed by their constitutions.

7. Coordinate regulations and processes with Riley and Pottawatomie Counties to streamline development approvals and to manage the pattern and sustainability of urban development, as well as the preservation of the Flint Hills and the rural agricultural landscape.

8. Protect the mission of Fort Riley through local implementation of the Joint Land Use Study (JLUS).

9. Work with Kansas State University (KSU) to address common interests related to student housing, multi-modal transportation, and ongoing University development.

10. Establish districts and applicable standards to enable efficient development patterns, including by-right mixed-use development.

11. Provide good standards and efficient processes for the redevelopment of property or infill development on vacant or underutilized tracts.

12. Provide regulations pertaining to pre-existing lots, structures, and uses, which do not conform to the regulations and standards established by this Chapter.

13. Promote, in the public interest, the utilization of land for the purposes it is most desirable and best adapted for.

14. Preserve and enhance the character and integrity of established neighborhoods, and the compatibility, affordability, and quality of housing within them.

15. Enhance the visual appearance and attractiveness of the City through reasonable regulation of site and building design.

16. Conserve natural resources and promote responsible development patterns and practices.

17. Preserve, enhance, and protect the special character of the City's historic districts and other areas of cultural, scenic, or architectural importance.
18. Provide for efficient and fair development approval procedures that respect property rights and ensure quality development.
19. Ensure that development within the areas impacted by the Manhattan Regional Airport are compatible with the functions and operations of the airport.

Historic Preservation

1. Provide a mechanism to identify and conserve the distinctive historic and architectural characteristics and other historic resources of the City which represent elements of the City's cultural, social, economic, political and architectural heritage.

2. Foster civic pride in the accomplishments of the past as represented in the City's historic resources.

3. Conserve and improve the value of property in and around designated historic properties, historic districts, and neighborhoods within the community.

4. Enhance the attractiveness of the City to residents, current and prospective homeowners, visitors and shoppers and thereby supporting and promoting business, commerce, industry, and providing economic benefit to the City.

5. Encourage preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historic properties within the City.

Land Subdivision

1. Require that each subdivision provides building sites that are reasonably safe from damage from any flood source, whether the source risks a one percent chance of flooding in any given year or causes any other risk of flood damage or loss.

2. Coordinate the development of each parcel of land with the existing community and to facilitate the proper development of adjoining land.

3. Establish reasonable standards of layout and procedures for subdivisions and re-subdivisions, to provide adequate and accurate records of all land subdivision, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumentation of subdivided land.
4. Provide for a reasonable relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicles throughout the Manhattan Urban Area, having particular regard for safe and efficient travel, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.
5. Guide public policy and private action to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, emergency services, and other public requirements and facilities for proposed subdivisions.
6. Provide that the cost of improvements which primarily benefit the tract of land being developed be borne by the owner of the tract, and that the cost of improvements which primarily benefit the whole community, be shared by the owner and the community.
7. Establish subdivision standards that provide for an efficient utilization of land, including the protection and preservation of sensitive natural resources.

1. The subdivision of land located within the City and that portion of the Manhattan Urban Area outside the City.
2. The subdivision or development of land subject to a cooperative agreement with any other city or county pursuant to state statutes.

1. Memorandum of Understanding. This commitment to communication, cooperation and collaboration was formalized by the signing of the "Memorandum of Understanding Between Fort Riley, Kansas, and Municipalities Adjacent to or Surrounding Fort Riley, Kansas" in 2015 (MOU). The MOU represents the parties' intent to follow specific procedures to proactively communicate and inform each other of planning and development activities in the surrounding communities and on the post, in addition to changes in military operations by it.
2. Flint Hills–Fort Riley Joint Land Use Study. The region surrounding the Fort Riley military installation participated in the Flint Hills–Fort Riley Joint Land Use Study (JLUS). The most recent JLUS update provides the applicable maps defining various noise contours and flight areas and the Critical Area. The MOU establishes the Critical Area surrounding Fort Riley that the Army installation and the surrounding communities must monitor to reduce potential conflicts between the military operations and the economic well-being of the region.

1. Any device used in the collection of sewage or surface water operated or maintained by a public utility, but not including substations located on or above the surface of the ground.
2. Utility poles, which are utilized solely for the support of electrical, telephone, cable television, or similar cables and wires, located on public rights-of-way or easements for that purpose, and are part of a system of such poles throughout the City.
3. Wireless telecommunication towers and other facilities utilized for the transmission of signals that do not constitute personal wireless telecommunication services.
4. Short-wave radio towers that are owned and operated by a federally-licensed amateur radio station;
5. Antennas considered residential antennas under Para. 26-2E-12B-2.
6. Railroad tracks, signals, bridges, and similar facilities and equipment used in the operation of the railroad and located on railroad rights-of-way.
7. Refer to Subsec. 26-5A-3B for subdivision exemptions.