The AP1 Airport District is intended to ensure
the complete safety of the Winchester Regional Airport. It is intended
to prevent the encroachment of airport hazards and requires existing
potential airport hazards to be removed, altered, marked or lighted
as deemed necessary by the Executive Director of the Winchester Regional
Airport Authority. This Part 701 also provides for noise easements
and noise abatement to protect adjoining zones from the exposure of
airport noise.
Except as otherwise provided in this district,
no structure shall be erected, altered or maintained and no vegetation
shall be allowed to grow in any zone created by this chapter to a
height in excess of the height limit established for each zone, Where
an area is covered by more than one height limitation, the more restrictive
limitations shall prevail. Such height limitations are hereby established
for each of the zones in question as follows:
A. Approach Zone: one foot in height for each 50 feet
in horizontal distance beginning at a point 200 feet from and at the
center-line elevation of the end of the runway and extending to a
distance of 10,200 feet from the end of the runway; thence one foot
in height for each 40 feet in horizontal distance to a point 50,200
feet from the end of the runway.
B. Conical Zone: one foot in height for each 20 feet
of horizontal distance, beginning at the periphery of the horizontal
zone, extending to a height of 1,122.5 feet above the airport elevation.
C. Horizontal Zone: 150 feet above the airport elevation
or a height of 870 feet above mean sea level.
D. Transitional Zone: one foot in height for each seven
feet in horizontal distance, extending 200 feet beyond each end of
the center line of the runway, extending to a height of 150 feet above
the airport elevation, which is 720 feet above mean sea level. In
addition to the foregoing, there are established height limits of
one foot vertical height for each seven feet of horizontal distance
measured from the edges of all approach zones for the entire length
of the approach zones and extending upward and outward to the points
where they intersect the horizontal or conical surfaces. Further,
where the approach zone projects through and beyond the conical zone,
a height limit of one foot for each seven feet of horizontal distance
shall be maintained beginning at the edge of the approach zone and
extending a distance of 5,000 feet from the edge of the approach zone
measured normal to the center line of the runway extended.
No permit shall be granted that would allow
the establishment or creation of an airport hazard or a hazard to
air navigation. Any permit granted in the airport zones may be conditioned
to require the owner of the structure in question to install, operate
and maintain, at the owner's expense, such markings and lights as
may be deemed necessary by the FAA, the Virginia Department of Aviation
or the Zoning Administrator. Notwithstanding any other provisions
of this district and within the area below the horizontal limits of
any zone established by this Part 701, no use may be made of land
or water within any zone established by this chapter in such a manner
as to:
A. Create electrical interference with navigational signals
or radio communication between the airport and aircraft;
B. Diminish the ability of pilots to distinguish between
airport lights and other lights;
C. Result in glare in the eyes of pilots using the airport;
D. Impair visibility in the vicinity of the airport;
E. Create the potential for bird strike hazards; or
F. Otherwise in any way endanger or interfere with the
landing, takeoff or maneuvering of aircraft intending to use the airport.