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Title: 20 - Zoning

Chapter: 64 - Airport

Section: 60 - Airport zone height limitations

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no structure shall be erected, altered, or maintained, and no tree shall be allowed to grow in any zone created by this chapter to a height in excess of the applicable height herein established for such zone. Such applicable height limitations are hereby established for each of the zones in question as follows:

  1. Utility Runway Visual Approach Zone. Slopes twenty feet outward for each foot upward beginning at the end of and at the same elevation as the primary surface and extending to a horizontal distance of five thousand feet along the ex-tended runway centerline

  2. Runway Larger Than Utility Visual Approach Zone. Slopes twenty feet outward for each foot upward beginning at the end of and at the same elevation as the primary surface and extending to a horizontal distance of five thousand feet along the extended runway centerline

  3. Runway Larger Than Utility (With a Visibility Minimum Greater Than Three-Fourths Mile) Nonprecision Instrument Approach Zone. Slopes thirty-four feet outward for each foot upward beginning at the end of and at the same elevation as the primary surface and extending to a horizontal distance of ten thousand feet along the extended run-way centerline

  4. Precision Instrument Runway Approach Zone. Slopes fifty feet outward for each foot upward beginning at the end of and at the same elevation as the primary surface and extending to a horizontal distance of ten thousand feet along the extended runway centerline

  5. Transitional Zones. Slope seven feet outward for each foot upward beginning at the sides of and at the same elevation as the primary surface and the approach surface, and ex-tending to a height of one hundred fifty feet above the air-port elevation

  6. Horizontal Zone. Established at a height of one hundred fifty feet above the airport elevation

  7. Conical Zone. Slopes twenty feet outward for each foot upward beginning at the periphery of the horizontal zone and at one hundred fifty feet above the airport elevation and extending to a height of three hundred fifty feet above the airport elevation.

 

 (Ord. 80-14 (part), 1980.)