The purpose of the airport zoning provision is to ensure protection of the utility of Sheppard Air Force Base/Wichita Falls Regional Airport and Kickapoo Downtown Airport and the public investment by the regulation of land uses in the vicinity of Sheppard Air Force Base/ Wichita Falls Regional Airport and Kickapoo Downtown Airport where it has been determined that Sheppard Air Force Base/Wichita Falls Regional Airport and Kickapoo Downtown Airport are essential economic elements of the city and surrounding cities and counties.
It is also the purpose of this provision to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public where it is recognized that obstructions, aircraft accidents, and excessive noise have the potential for endangering or harming the lives and/or property of users or occupants of land in the vicinity of Sheppard Air Force Base/Wichita Falls Regional Airport and Kickapoo Downtown Airport.
(Ordinance 155-94, sec. 1, adopted 12/20/94; Ordinance 32-2001, sec. 4, adopted 4/3/01; Ordinance 8-2006, sec. 1, adopted 2/7/06)
AICUZ
means Air Installation Compatible Use Zone.
Airport
means Sheppard Air Force Base/Wichita Falls Regional Airport and Kickapoo Downtown Airport.
Airport elevation
means the established elevation of the highest point on the usable landing area measured in feet from mean sea level.
Airport hazard
means any structure or tree or use of land which obstructs the air space required for the flights of aircraft or which obstructs or interferes with the control or tracking and/or data acquisition in the landing, taking off or flight at an airport, or at any installation or facility relating to flight, and tracking and/or data acquisition of the flight craft; hazardous, interfering with or obstructing such landing, taking off or flight of aircraft or which is hazardous to or interferes with tracking and/or data acquisition pertaining to flight and flight vehicles.
Airport hazard area
means any area of land or water upon which an airport hazard might be established if not prevented as provided in this article.
Airport reference point
means the point established as the approximate geographic center of the airport landing area and so designated.
Approach/departure surface
means a surface longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline, extending outward and upward from the end of the primary surface and at the same slope as the approach zone height limitation slope set forth in section 6425 of this ordinance. In plan the perimeter of the approach surface coincides with the perimeter of the approach zone.
Approach surface
means a surface longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline and extending outward and upward from each end of the primary surface. An approach surface is applied to each end of each runway based upon the type of approach available or planned for that runway end. The slope and dimensions of the approach surfaces are set forth in section 6435.
Conical surface
means a surface extending outward and upward from the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of 20 to one for a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet.
Departure surface
means a surface longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline and extending outward and upward from each runway end. The slopes of the departure surfaces are 40 horizontal for each one vertical (40:1). The inner widths of the departure zones 1,000 feet and the outer widths are 6,466 feet. Slopes and dimensions of the departures zones are as set forth in section 6435.
Hazard to air navigation
means an obstruction determined to have a substantial adverse effect on the safe and efficient utilization of the navigable airspace.
Height
For the purpose of determining the height limits in all zones set forth in this ordinance and shown on the zoning map, the datum shall be mean sea level (MSL) elevation unless otherwise specified.
Horizontal surface
means a horizontal plane 150 feet above the established airport elevation, the perimeter of which in plan coincides with the perimeter of the horizontal plane.
Landing area
means the surface area of the airport used for the landing, take-off or taxiing of aircraft.
Non-conforming use
means any pre-existing structure, object of natural growth, or use of land which is inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance or an amendment thereto.
Non-precision instrument runway
means a runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing air navigation facilities with only horizontal guidance, or area type navigation equipment, for which a straight-in non-precision instrument approach procedure has been approved or planned.
Obstruction
means any structure, growth, or other object, including a mobile object, which exceeds a limiting height set forth in section 6448.
Person
means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic, and includes a trustee, receiver, assignee, administrator, executor, guardian, or other representative.
Primary surface
means a surface longitudinally centered on a runway. When the runway has a specially prepared hard surface, the primary surface extends 200 feet beyond each end of that runway; but when the runway has no specially prepared hard surface, or planned hard surface, the primary surface ends at each end of that runway. The width of the primary surface of a runway will be that width prescribed in Part 77 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) for the most precise approach existing or planned for either end of that runway. The elevation of any point on the primary surface is the same as the elevation of the nearest point on the runway centerline. In accordance with FAR Part 77, the width of the primary surface at Kickapoo Downtown Airport is 500 feet for a non-precision instrument runway having visibility minimums greater than three-fourths statute mile.
Runway
means a defined area on an airport prepared for landing and take-off of aircraft along its length.
Structure
means an object, including a mobile object, constructed or installed by man, including, but not limited to, buildings, towers, cranes, smokestacks, earth formation, and overhead transmission lines.
Transitional surfaces
means those surfaces extend outward at 90 degree angles to the runway centerline and the runway centerline extended at a slope of seven feet horizontally for each foot vertically from the sides of the primary and approach surfaces to where they intersect the horizontal and conical surfaces. Transitional surfaces for those portions of the precision approach surfaces, which projects through and beyond the limits of the conical surface, extend a distance of 5,000 feet measured horizontally from the edge of the approach surface and at 90 degree angles to extended runway centerline.
Tree
means any object of natural growth.
Visual runway
means a runway intended solely for the operation of aircraft using visual approach procedures.
(Ordinance 8-2006, sec. 1, adopted 2/7/06)
Airport zoning regulations shall apply to all of the incorporated areas of the city and unincorporated areas which are located within an accident potential zone, noise zone or height restriction zone as described herein. The use of all land and any buildings or structures located upon the land, and the height, construction, reconstruction, alteration, expansion or relocation of any building or structure upon the land, shall conform to all regulations applicable to this section. No land, building, structure or premises shall be constructed and/or used for any purpose or in any manner other than is permitted in this section.
The airport zoning regulation shall be in accordance with prescribed regulations contained Texas Local Government Code sec. 241.001 et seq.
(Ordinance 155-94, sec. 1, adopted 12/20/94; Ordinance 8-2006, sec. 1, adopted 2/7/06)
The Commission for the city shall be responsible for all duties and powers granted to an Airport Zoning Board as required by Texas Local Government Code sec. 241.001 et seq.
(Ordinance 155-94, sec. 1, adopted 12/20/94; Ordinance 8-2006, sec. 1, adopted 2/7/06)
Refer to the Land Use Compatibility Table included herein for permitted, controlled, and prohibited land uses in accordance with the latest AICUZ Study for Sheppard Air Force Base.
(Ordinance 155-94, sec. 1, adopted 12/20/94; Ordinance 72-2000, sec. 2, adopted 7/5/00; Ordinance 8-2006, sec. 1, adopted 2/7/06)