18.38.020 Intent.
The intent of this chapter is to apply the city’s comprehensive plan and to implement certain land use and zoning development standards to reduce or avoid potential for airport-related hazards. It is found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users of the municipal airport and of occupants of land or property in its vicinity, and also, if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces the size of the area available for the landing, taking off, and maneuvering of aircraft, thus tending to destroy or impair the utility of the municipal airport and the public investment therein. Accordingly, it is declared that:
A. The creation or establishment of an airport hazard is a public nuisance and an injury to the region served by the municipal airport;
B. It is necessary in the interest of the public health, public safety, and general welfare that the creation or establishment of airport hazards be prevented; and
C. The prevention of these airport hazards should be accomplished, to the extent legally possible, by the exercise of the police power without compensation. It is further declared that both the prevention or the creation or establishment of airport hazards and the elimination, removal, alteration, mitigation or marking and lighting of existing airport hazards are public purposes for which political subdivisions may raise and expend public funds and acquire land or interests in land.
D. For the purpose of this chapter “structure” means any object constructed or installed by a human being, including, but not limited to, buildings, signs, fences, towers, devices, and overhead transmission lines, and “tree” means any object of natural growth. (Ord. 6838 § 1 (Exh. A), 2021.)