Agenda - 05-23-1983 - Laserfiche WebLink

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,at Members of the Board of County Commissioners and Planning Board. My name name is Pat Crawford. I am a resident of Orange County, Bingham Township. I wish to address the issue of the approach zone control. While 1 I agree with the staff's assessment that 5,000 feet should be under control of the applicant, there is ample evidence in the record to 1 support an amount necessary to control the height of natural growing fQ objects at reast 150 feet. More importantly, regardless of what number is eventually chosen, it is necessary that the zone be controlled, either by the applicant or the County. Without such control, there is no protectio1 n for the applicant or others concerning adjacent land uses . In implemehting this ordinance the County recognized the fact that airports would have impacts beyond site boundaries. The County adopted the special use permit process to evaluate proposals having wide ranging effects and thus a special use permit is required of any proposed airport within the County 's zoning jurisdiction. Rather 1 than creating an airport district and control surrounding area thru 1 zoning or develop a publicly owned facility and control surrounding area by the use of eminent domain, the County chose to place the burden of minimizing conflicting adjacent land uses on the applicant. 1 Thus, as a requirement separate and apart from any FAA, State or other federal regulation, the Orange County zoning ordinance requires "that land sufficient to provide approach zones and over- run areas is owned or controlled by the applicant. " To date, Orange County has not amended its ordinance to eliminate this requirement of any developer of a proposed airport within the County's zoning jurisdiction nor has the County shown any interest in