Sec. 66-886, 66-887, 66-888, 66-890, 66-891
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Virginia Highlands Airport
- Geographic extent
- Airport safety overlayOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. zone established for Virginia Highlands Airport, as defined in the regulations.
Uses
Prohibited8
- Uses creating electrical interference with navigational signals or radio communication
- Uses diminishing ability of pilots to distinguish between airport lights and other lights
- Uses resulting in glare in the eyes of pilots
- Uses impairing visibility in the vicinity of the airport
- Uses creating potential for bird strike hazards
- Uses endangering or interfering with landing, takeoff, or maneuvering of aircraft
- Permanent buildings within the runway protection zone
- Regularly parking motor vehicles in approach zones causing hazard to air navigation
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Airport heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. restriction surface
No structure shall be erected, located, altered, or maintained, and no vegetation shall be allowed to grow to a height so as to penetrate any referenced surface.
Other
- Airport safety use restrictions
No use may create electrical interference, diminish pilot ability to distinguish lights, cause glare, impair visibility, create bird strike hazards, or otherwise endanger aircraft.
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. use rebuild after 50% damage
Whenever a nonconforming structure, vegetation, or activity is more than 50 percent destroyed or damaged, only a conforming use may be rebuilt.
- Temporary structure exemption
Structures of a temporary nature located within any zone for less than 90 successive calendar days are exempt from this article.
Parking
- Parking in approach zones
It shall be a violation for any motor vehicle to be regularly parked in an approach zone where it causes a continuous or frequent hazard to air navigation.
From the ordinance
No structure shall be erected, located, altered, or maintained, and no vegetation shall be allowed to grow to a height so as to penetrate any referenced surface.