(A) General. The AD Airport Development Zone is created with the purpose of coordinating the location, size, and creation and configuration of anticipated airports in the city with patterns of residential growth and other major land uses as well as with other transportation facilities and services; to make the airport environs compatible with airport operations; to make physical development and land use of airports compatible with existing and proposed patterns of land use; to regulate the height of structures or natural growth erected, altered, allowed to grow or maintained in any zone established by the Federal Aviation Agency.
(B) Zone map. In addition to the Official Zone Maps for the city, typical airport maps are hereby made a part of this chapter. The maps show the boundaries of the airports, instrument, noninstrument, VFR transition, horizontal and conical zones; airport reference points and elevations.
(C) Permitted uses. No building, structure, or land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged, or maintained except for the following uses:
(1) Landing and takeoff runways;
(2) Landing strips;
(3) Hangars;
(4) Taxi ways and parking ramps;
(5) Airplane repair shops;
(6) Restaurant facilities related to airport operations;
(7) Airplane fuel storage;
(8) Parking as required in this chapter;
(9) Personnel and ticket offices;
(10) Towers for control, landings, and takeoff;
(11) Sports assembly, not in airport proper;
(12) Community parks, not in airport proper;
(13) Farming;
(14) Entertainment assembly, not in airport proper;
(15) Communication, transportation, and utilities;
(16) Motor vehicle transportation;
(17) Ambulance and fire protection;
(18) Hotels; overnight accommodations; and
(19) Limited industrial operations compatible to the operation of airports when approved by the Plan Commission. Applications for such uses shall be made according to established procedures and shall be subject to public hearing. Prior to approving any light and limited industrial use, said Plan Commission shall conclusively determine that the proposed use shall not constitute a hazard to airport traffic and to surrounding area.
(D) Uses totally prohibited. The following uses shall be prohibited in the AD Airport Development Zone and shall not be permitted under any conditions or circumstances.
(1) No use may be made of land within an instrument, non-instrument, VER transition, horizontal or conical zone as established by the Federal Aviation Agency for each airport in such manner as to create electrical interference with radio communication between the airports and aircrafts, make it difficult for flyers to distinguish between airport lights and others, result in glare in the eyes of flyers using the airport, impair visibility in the vicinity of the airport or otherwise endanger the landing, takeoff, or maneuvering of aircraft.
(2) No structure or tree shall be erected, altered, allowed to grow or be maintained in any instrument approach or non-instrument approach, VFR transition approach, horizontal or conical zone as established by the Federal Aviation Agency to a height in excess of 35 feet, or to a height that may be in conflict with the standards of the Federal Aviation Agency. Height limitations shall be governed, whenever necessary, by standards established for the Instrument Approach Zone, the Non-instrument Approach Zone, Horizontal Zone, Conical Zone, VFR Transition Zone as established by the Federal Aviation Agency.
(E) Marking and lighting. The owner of any tree or structure which at the time of the enactment of this chapter may be in conflict with the height provisions, shall be required to permit the installation, operation, and maintenance thereon of such markers and lights as shall be deemed necessary to indicate to the operators of aircraft in the vicinity of the airport the presence of such airport hazards.
(F) Existing uses. No permit shall be granted that would allow the establishment or creation of an airport hazard or permit a nonconforming use, structure, or tree to be made or become higher, or become a greater hazard to air navigation than it was on the date of the enactment of this chapter or any amendments thereto.
(Ord. 1991-07, passed 1-7-1991) Penalty, see § 10.99