Article XIV, Sec. 21-1400
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
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
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above airport elevation (horizontal surface)150 ft
A horizontal plane one hundred fifty (150) feet above the established airport elevation
- Maximum occupancy without special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. under approach zone300 persons
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.
- Prohibits penetration of any airport surface without special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
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
- Requires Virginia Department of Aviation determination for special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
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.