The Airport Development (AD) Zone is intended to protect airport facilities from incompatible uses; to provide for future airport expansion; and to insure compatibility at the airport with adjacent land use.

The following principal uses are permitted as of right in the AD Zone:

1.

Agriculture and farm uses.

2.

Air cargo terminals.

3.

Aircraft sales, repair, service, storage, and schools relating to aircraft operations.

4.

Facilities on the airport property essential for the operation of airports, such as fuel storage, hangers, fixed base operator office.

5.

Passenger terminals.

6.

Public facilities or services.

7.

Snack bar for airport patrons, with total floor area not to exceed 1,000 square feet.

8.

Open spaces.

9.

Public parking and /or auto or vehicular storage.

The following uses are permitted conditionally in the AD Zone.

1.

Golf course, park, or other recreation facilities.

2.

Community service facilities owned and operated by a government agency or nonprofit organization.

3.

Other uses where ongoing operations and the use thereof are directly dependent upon or associated with the airport.

4.

Warehousing and storage facilities, including mini-warehouses.

5.

Eating establishment.

6.

Utility facility.

(Ord. No. 2703-2015, § 2, 8-3-2015)

Accessory. Accessory uses and structures common to all zones as listed in Chapter 10A-53 are allowed in the AD Zone.

The building, development site and accessory uses shall be subject to the following additional standards:

1.

Lot size. There shall be no minimum lot size, width, or depth provided that minimum landscaping, setback, loading, and off street parking requirements are satisfied.

2.

Building setbacks. Front yard, side yard, and rear yard setbacks are not required except where the property line abuts, faces, or adjoins a residential zone. Property abutting, facing, or adjoining a residential zone shall be set back a minimum of 50 feet to provide a buffer strip from adjoining residential uses. Said buffer strip shall be landscaped with trees and shrubs to minimize the visual and noise impact on the adjacent residential use.

3.

All uses in an AD Zone shall be subject to the site plan review provisions of this Title, and shall comply with all applicable site and performance standards in the general provisions chapter of this Title.

4.

Building or landscaping materials shall not produce glare which may conflict with any present or planned operations of the airport.

5.

No use may produce electromagnetic interference which may conflict with any present or planned operations of the airport.

6.

No use shall cause, encourage, foster, or promote the attraction, increase, or collection of fowl or birds.

7.

No structure or obstructing vegetative growth shall be constructed or permitted in the clear zone as defined and mapped in the Ontario Airport Master Plan.

8.

Ongoing operations or uses must be directly dependent upon or directly associated with the airport, except for the specified permitted recreational and open space uses.

9.

Uses shall not conflict with any present or planned operations of the airport.

10.

Uses shall comply with any and all applicable requirements of this Title, and all other applicable portions of the City Code.

11.

An aviation easement acceptable to the City shall be executed by all uses prior to any construction or occupancy of said uses.

12.

Storage of animal, vegetable, or other wastes which attract insects, rodents or birds, or otherwise create hazards, shall be prohibited.

13.

There shall be no emissions of smoke, fly ash, dust, vapor, gases, or other forms of air pollution that may cause nuisance, impair visibility, or cause injury to human, plant, animal life, or property, or that may conflict with any present or planned operations of the airport.

14.

Sign lighting and exterior lighting shall not project directly into any adjoining residential zone.

15.

Unless necessary for safe and convenient air travel, sign lighting and exterior lighting shall not project directly onto airport runways, taxiways, or approach zones.

16.

There shall be a minimum of ten percent of any lot area devoted to landscaping.

17.

Uses which abut a residential zone shall provide and maintain a dense evergreen landscape buffer, site obscuring fence, or landscaped berm, which must attain a mature height of at least six feet.

18.

All open and non-landscaped portions of any site shall be graded for proper drainage, and maintained in a good condition free from weeds, trash, and debris.

19.

Construction of "T" hangers does not require the installation of landscaping; however, construction of auto parking areas for any permitted or conditional use will require the installation of landscaping as specified above.

The provisions of Chapter 10A-57, Miscellaneous Provisions, when not in conflict with the performance standards of this zone shall apply to all developments in the AD Zone.