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PETITION 96-02(T) <br />PETITION 96-02 <br /> <br />INTENT <br /> <br />To create Pa~t V of Chapter Four "Airport-Airspace Overlay Zone" and place that <br />overlay on the area surrounding the Concord Regional Airport. The text of this <br />overlay was provided by the City of Concord Planning Department and is currently <br />included in their Zoning Ordinance. Staff has modified it only to make it <br />compatible with the Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance. It is intended to protect <br />the airspace around the airport from encroachments that could compromise the safe <br />function of the facility. <br /> <br />METHOD <br /> <br />The overlay zone ensures that planned improvements to property within the airport <br />area are reviewed to determine impact on the airspace. Standard development <br />would be unaffected, but improvements such as radio antennas and cellular <br />telephone towers would be reviewed by the Airport Aviation Director to determine if <br />they affect airspace. In cases where a planned improvement would encroach on the <br />airspace, a zoning permit would be denied. <br /> <br />Structures are currently reviewed by the Federal Aviation Administration. If they <br />are found to encroach on the airspace, however, they are not automatically denied. <br /> <br />PROCEDURE <br /> <br />Staff is requesting that the Planning and Zoning Commission review the text <br />amendment and overlay. Both items will need to go before the Board of <br />Commissioners for review and public hearing to be adopted. Because we have <br />requests for improvements that could affect the airspace, and feel we will get more <br />requests in the near future, we would like for the Commission to make a <br />recommendation at tonight's meeting so the amendments can go to the Board in <br />May. <br /> <br /> <br />