Henry County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Article XIV, Sec. 21-1400

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Applies near
Blue Ridge Airport
Geographic extent
Applicable to approach and safety zones in the proximity of Blue Ridge Airport.

Extracted standards

17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Approach surface expansion width (northwesterly end)1,250 ft

    expands uniformly to a width of 1,250 feet for the northwesterly end

  • Approach surface length (northwesterly end)5,000 ft

    extends for a horizontal distance of 5,000 feet for a slope of 20 to 1 for the northwesterly end

  • Approach surface slope (northwesterly end)20 1

    slope of 20 to 1

  • Approach surface expansion width (southeasterly end)3,500 ft

    expands uniformly to a width of 3,500 feet for the southeasterly end

  • Approach surface length (southeasterly end)10,000 ft

    extends for a horizontal distance of 10,000 feet at a slope of 34 to 1 for the southeasterly end

  • Approach surface slope (southeasterly end)34 1

    slope of 34 to 1

  • Conical surface horizontal distance4,000 ft

    at a slope of 20 to 1 for a horizontal distance of four thousand (4,000) feet

  • Conical surface slope20 1

    at a slope of 20 to 1 for a horizontal distance of four thousand (4,000) feet

  • Horizontal surface radius10,000 ft

    swinging an arc of ten thousand (10,000) feet radius from the center of each end of the primary surface

  • A horizontal plane one hundred fifty (150) feet above the established airport elevation

  • Any building or use which is designed to be regularly occupied by more than three hundred (300) persons shall not be built under an approach zone unless a special use permit has been approved

  • Primary surface extension beyond runway end200 ft

    extending two hundred (200) feet beyond each end of the runway

  • Primary surface width500 ft

    The width of the primary surface is five hundred (500) feet.

  • No structure shall be erected, altered, or maintained, and no vegetation... shall be allowed to grow at a height so as to penetrate any surface described by this article... unless and until a special use permit has been issued

  • Any application for a special use permit under the provisions of this article shall include a determination by the Virginia Department of Aviation as to the effect of the proposal on the operation of air navigation facilities

  • Transitional surface horizontal distance5,000 ft

    extend a distance of five thousand (5,000) feet measured horizontally from the edge of the approach surface

  • Transitional surface slope7 1

    at a slope of 7 to 1 from the sides of the primary surface

From the ordinance

The purpose of this district is to regulate and restrict the height of structures and landscape materials, with the exception of trees already in existence and not in an approach zone, and to otherwise regulate the use of property in the vicinity of existing public airports.
Article XIV, Sec. 21-1400