§ 20.13.050. Notices of construction or alteration.

(a) Construction or Alteration Requiring Notice. Prior to commencing construction or alteration of any structure within either of the airport hazard areas, any person proposing such construction or alteration shall notify the director of aviation and the Chief, Air Traffic Division, Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") Regional Office having jurisdiction over the area within which the construction or alteration will be located if such construction or alteration exceeds any of the following height standards:

(1)

Two hundred feet above the ground level at its site;

(2)

The plane of an imaginary surface extending outward and upward at a slope of one hundred to one for a horizontal distance of twenty thousand feet from the nearest point of the nearest runway of either of the airports;

(3)

For highways, railroads and other traverse ways for mobile objects; if construction or alteration is of greater height than the standards set forth in subdivisions (1) or (2) of this subsection after their height has been adjusted upward for the appropriate traverse way as follows:

(A)

For interstate highways: seventeen feet,

(B)

For any other public roadways: fifteen feet,

(C)

For any private road: ten feet or the height of the highest mobile object that would normally traverse the road, whichever is greater,

(D)

For any railroad: twenty-three feet,

(E)

For a waterway or any other unspecified traverse way: the height of the highest mobile object that would normally use the traverse way;

(4)

Any other structure for which notice is required to be given to the FAA pursuant to current or future laws and regulations, including any such notice requested by the FAA for any construction or alteration that would be in an instrument approach area and available information indicates the height might exceed any FAA obstruction standard.

Any notice required by this section shall be on FAA Form 7460-1, available from the regional offices of the FAA.

(b)

Construction or Alteration Not Requiring Notice. Notice to the FAA is not required for construction or alteration of any of the following:

(1)

Any object that would be shielded by existing structures of a permanent and substantial character or by natural terrain or topographical features of equal or greater height, and would be located in the congested area of a city, town or settlement where it is evident beyond all reasonable doubt that the structure so shielded will not adversely affect safety in air navigation.

(2)

Any antenna structure of twenty feet or less in height, except one that would increase the height of another antenna structure.

(3)

Any air navigation facility, airport visual approach or landing aid, aircraft arresting device, or meteorological device, of a type approved by the Administrator of the FAA, or an appropriate military service on military airports, the location and height of which is fixed by its functional purpose.

(Ord. 1775 § 1 (part), 1996: Ord. 1599 § 1 (part), 1994)