Achieving Airport-compatible Land Uses and Minimizing Hazardous Obstructions in Navigable Airspace
Achieving Airport-compatible Land Uses and Minimizing Hazardous Obstructions in Navigable Airspace

Author: Jocelyn Waite

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0309214106

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This report discusses airport compatible land use requirements, the legal issues related to achieving airport compatible land use, and legal issues particular to eliminating hazardous obstructions to airspace. The report concludes by reviewing the major legal issues of concern in achieving airport-compatible land use. While general legal principles relevant to airport land use are well established, they are often applied on a case by case basis, particularly in the context of regulatory takings and inverse condemnation. This ad hoc analysis introduces, if not an element of unpredictability, at least some variation in the law by jurisdiction. The need for greater predictability highlights the significance of including airport zoning as part of comprehensive land use planning. This report should be helpful to airport administrators, attorneys, board members, financial officers, community members in the vicinity of airports, realtors, and city and county zoning officials.

Achieving Airport-compatible Land Uses and Minimizing Hazardous Obstructions in Navigable Airspace
Achieving Airport-compatible Land Uses and Minimizing Hazardous Obstructions in Navigable Airspace

Author: Jocelyn Waite

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780309214100

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This report discusses airport compatible land use requirements, the legal issues related to achieving airport compatible land use, and legal issues particular to eliminating hazardous obstructions to airspace. The report concludes by reviewing the major legal issues of concern in achieving airport-compatible land use. While general legal principles relevant to airport land use are well established, they are often applied on a case by case basis, particularly in the context of regulatory takings and inverse condemnation. This ad hoc analysis introduces, if not an element of unpredictability, at least some variation in the law by jurisdiction. The need for greater predictability highlights the significance of including airport zoning as part of comprehensive land use planning. This report should be helpful to airport administrators, attorneys, board members, financial officers, community members in the vicinity of airports, realtors, and city and county zoning officials.

Understanding Airspace, Objects, and Their Effects on Airports
Understanding Airspace, Objects, and Their Effects on Airports

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Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0309155177

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ACRP Report 38: Understanding Airspace, Objects, and Their Effects on Airports provides a comprehensive description of the regulations, standards, evaluation criteria, and processes designed to protect the airspace surrounding airports. Aviation practitioners, local planning and zoning agencies, and developers all have a need to understand and apply the appropriate airspace design and evaluation criteria to ensure a safe operating environment for aircraft, to maintain airport operational flexibility and reliability, without unduly restricting desirable building development and attendant economic growth in the surrounding community.

A Comparison of Models to Evaluate FAR Part 77 Safe and Efficient Airspace Around Airports
A Comparison of Models to Evaluate FAR Part 77 Safe and Efficient Airspace Around Airports

Author: David R. DuBois

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13:

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Airspace surrounding airports is becoming endangered by incompatible land uses of adjacent communities. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has designed specific regulations to protect people and property on the ground, as well as establishing a safe and efficient navigable airspace environment for civil, commercial and military aviation. In addition to other Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR), Part 77 lays out imaginary surfaces determined by a runway's type and size. While the FAA has strict control of the airspace above the surface, it has no control of the land usage outside of an airport, regardless if it affects the navigable airspace. The concept of airport compatible land uses is often misunderstood, with local municipalities misjudging the importance of local ordinances and zoning regulations. Likewise, some airports struggle to take the land use plans for adjacent communities into consideration when developing long-term airport layout plans. This case study will present four methods for generating models of the imaginary surfaces per FAR Part 77 with existing obstructions, as well as other practical planning applications for Runway 11-29 at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. It will also show the intergovernmental coordination of the FAA, the airport, the state of Missouri, and local governments used to produce land use compatibility with FAR Part 77.

Guidebook on Effective Land Use Compatibility Planning Strategies for General Aviation Airports
Guidebook on Effective Land Use Compatibility Planning Strategies for General Aviation Airports

Author: Maranda V. Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780309480802

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Incompatible land uses can threaten the safe utility of airports and expose people living and working nearby to potentially unacceptable levels of noise or safety risk. At the state level, all 50 states have enacted some form of airport zoning legislation since the 1950s. The majority of states (90 percent) have enacted laws mandating or enabling local governments to adopt, administer, and enforce airport zoning regulations. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 206: Guidebook on Effective Land Use Compatibility Planning Strategies for General Aviation Airports identifies that local adoption and implementation of airport land use compatibility regulations varies widely among local government agencies. While there is no one strategy that is effective for all airports, all airports need to be proactive about land use compatibility. This guidebook will help airport operators understand the various tools for ensuring compatible land use and how best to communicate land use compatibility needs to government decision makers and land use professionals (among other stakeholders). It includes Self Assessment Checklists, an accompanying Power Point Presentation, and a quick-reference Planning Brochure.

Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility: Land use fundamentals and implementation resources
Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility: Land use fundamentals and implementation resources

Author: Stephanie A. D. Ward

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9780309118231

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Volume One - TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 27: Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 1: Land Use Fundamentals and Implementation Resources is part of a three-volume report that explores issues related to land use around airports. Volume 1 provides guidance designed to help protect airports from incompatible land uses that impair current and future airport and aircraft operations and safety. Volume 2: Land Use Survey and Case Study Summaries includes 15 case studies that targeted a wide range of airports and land use issues. The case study sites include large commercial service, military, and general aviation airports and are geographically diverse. Volume 2 also provides states and local governments with examples and a common basis for establishing zoning that protects the public interest and investment in airports. Volume 3 includes aircraft accident data, a framework for an economic assessment of airport costs, and an annotated bibliography. Volumes 1 and 2 are available in print and online. Volume 3 is only available in electronic format.

Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility: Land use survey and case study summaries
Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility: Land use survey and case study summaries

Author: Stephanie A. D. Ward

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780309118248

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Volume One - TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 27: Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 1: Land Use Fundamentals and Implementation Resources is part of a three-volume report that explores issues related to land use around airports. Volume 1 provides guidance designed to help protect airports from incompatible land uses that impair current and future airport and aircraft operations and safety. Volume 2: Land Use Survey and Case Study Summaries includes 15 case studies that targeted a wide range of airports and land use issues. The case study sites include large commercial service, military, and general aviation airports and are geographically diverse. Volume 2 also provides states and local governments with examples and a common basis for establishing zoning that protects the public interest and investment in airports. Volume 3 includes aircraft accident data, a framework for an economic assessment of airport costs, and an annotated bibliography. Volumes 1 and 2 are available in print and online. Volume 3 is only available in electronic format.