1194.01 PURPOSE.

   (a)    It is the purpose of this Chapter to regulate land uses within the airport safety area of the Butler County Regional Airport in order to minimize injury, loss of life, and hazards to the safety of persons or to the security of property within such zones, and to assist in the implementation of policies and recommendations of the Hamilton, Fairfield and Butler County comprehensive plan, the airport master plan, the OKI Managing Mobility: Year 2010 Regional Transportation Plan and the State of Ohio's multi-modal transportation plan. Accordingly, it is declared that:

      (1)    The creation or establishment of non-compatible land uses which have the potential to reduce the area available for taking off, maneuvering, and landing of aircraft, thus, tending to impair or destroy the utility of the airport, and the public investment therein, is a public nuisance and an injury to the region served by the Butler County Regional Airport.

      (2)    Certain other land uses in the vicinity of the airport also have the potential for being hazardous to normal aircraft operations or to increase the potential for personal and property damage in the event of an aircraft accident; therefore, it is necessary in the interest of the public health, public safety, and general welfare that the incompatible use of land within certain airport zones be prevented, and

      (3)    The prevention of these incompatible land uses should be accomplished to the extent legally possible, by the exercise of the police power.

         (Ord. 169-00. Passed 11-13-00.)