Airport Zoning Act

The act addresses obstructions to air navigation around airports, treating structures, trees, and uses of land that intrude on the airspace needed for aircraft landing and takeoff as airport hazards subject to public regulation. It authorizes the state aeronautics agency and political subdivisions — acting individually or through a joint airport zoning board where an airport's approach area crosses jurisdictional lines — to prepare airport approach plans and adopt airport zoning regulations that carry those plans out, working through an airport zoning commission and requiring notice and hearing, while setting rules for conflicts with other zoning regulations and for uses that already exist when the regulations take effect. Day-to-day administration runs on permits, variances, hazard marking and lighting requirements, and a board of appeals whose decisions are subject to judicial review, and the regulatory scheme is backed by authority to acquire air rights, including through eminent domain, along with enforcement remedies.

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