Geary County · Manhattan metro
Metal buildings in Junction City.
We help Junction City customers plan shops, garages, equipment storage and agricultural buildings across Geary County, from the acreage around Milford Lake to the ranch ground south toward the Flint Hills.
On county ground here, what the building is for matters as much as where it sits. Geary County zoning treats a farm building and a shop you run a business from as two different applications.
What people build around Junction City
Detached garages and shops on acreage outside town, boat and RV storage near the lake, and equipment buildings on the ranch ground south of I-70.
A tall door for a boat or a fifth wheel usually means a taller eave, and every two feet above twelve adds roughly five percent to the frame. It’s worth settling the door before the footprint, because the door often decides the height and the height decides a fair part of the price.
We work in tubular steel, cold-formed steel, steel truss and red iron. See what a steel building costs.
Permitting in Geary County
Junction City permits inside its limits. Outside them, Geary County Planning & Zoning handles the building permit, and the zoning district your parcel sits in shapes what you can build.
Use decides the application
Unincorporated Geary County has three zoning districts: agricultural, suburban residential and single-family residential. The county requires a Conditional Use Permit for any land use in the unincorporated area other than agriculture and traditional single-family residential, and approval is at the county’s discretion.
So a shop for your own trucks and a shop you run a business out of aren’t the same request, even if they’re the same building. Tell us how the building will actually be used and we’ll help you understand which path you’re on before anything is drawn.
Floodplain and dam overlays
Geary County zoning includes a floodplain district, and a separate overlay covering ground below floodwater retarding dams. If your parcel falls in either, it affects where the building can sit and how the pad has to be built. Along the Republican and Smoky Hill river bottoms that’s the first thing to check.
Agricultural buildings
Kansas law limits what counties can require of agricultural buildings. Under K.S.A. 19-2908, county zoning doesn’t apply to land and buildings used for agricultural purposes, and a 2016 Attorney General opinion concluded a county can’t require buildings used solely for agriculture to meet county construction codes. The county decides whether a building qualifies, the limitation doesn’t reach inside Junction City, and floodplain rules still apply.
Engineering
Every building we supply arrives engineered for the loads at its address. A building people work in regularly is Risk Category II and has to be designed to that. We confirm what Junction City or the county will want to see before drawings are produced, because a site-specific requirement runs roughly $2.00 per square foot on tubular against about $0.75 on cold-formed, and on a finished building that can change the recommendation.
Talk to Brent about your Junction City project
Brent Epp works with our Kansas customers to plan buildings around their intended use, site requirements and budget.
Start with the address and an honest description of how the building will be used. In Geary County, that second part is what shapes the permit.
Brent Epp
417-318-9217
brent@vantagebuildings.com
We also serve Grandview Plaza, Milford, Chapman, Ogden and Fort Riley area acreage. See the Manhattan metro or all Kansas locations.
Tell us what you’re building.
Dimensions, use, and the address are enough to start.