Bill Type and
Number: Ordinance 2006-1225
Sponsor: Council President at the Request of the Mayor
Date of
Introduction: October 24, 2006
Committee(s)
of Reference: LUZ
Date of
Analysis: October 26, 2006
Type of
Action: Ordinance Code Amendment
Bill Summary: This bill repeals and recreates Part 10,
Chapter 656, Ordinance Code, concerning regulations related to airports and
lands adjacent thereto.
Background
Information: Information on file states that the rewrite
was undertaken to produce a clearer and more enforceable code, and to cover
several issues not currently addressed.
This rewrite includes separate matrices for military and civilian
facilities based on noise zones and accident potential zones; removes some or
all residential development potential from noise zones above 70 DNL and
accident potential zones; allows 1 single family unit per ˝ acre in APZ2, no
residential in the 70 DNL contour, and 1 single family unit per ˝ acre in the
65 DNL contour; proposes a noise test certificate, building to certain
standards, or an engineering judgment stating that the submitted plans will
meet noise attenuation requirements; requires notice to be placed on the plat
or subdivision for new residences, or a recorded acknowledgement at the time of
real estate sales transaction for existing residences or non-residential
properties; requires the acknowledgement to be witnessed, but not recorded, for
lease transactions; requires a recorded acknowledgement in order to obtain a
building permit within an airport notice zone or noise zone; maps the height
and hazard zones, and requires Navy or airport authority signoff for structures
above certain heights in certain zones; clarifies miscellaneous use zones to
require notice to the Navy or aviation authority of uses which may cause a
hazard to navigation; creates an airport notice zone, using the 60 DNL noise
contour for civilian airports, runway protection, and accident potential zones,
and lighting regulation zone or inner horizontal and conical surface zone as it
applies to military airports only; shows school regulation zones on the airport
environs map; establishes a lighting regulation zone around OLF Whitehouse;
requires rezonings to be PUDs in noise zones A and B; and, requires disclosure
on subdivisions and plats.
Policy Impact
Area: Land Use and Zoning; Regulations Related to
Airports and Adjacent Lands
Fiscal Impact: Undetermined
Analyst: