Wantage Township City Zoning Code
§ 13-12A.3
Vertical Development Height Standards in the Airport Hazard District.
a.
Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 16: 62-1.1 et seq., the following vertical (height) limits are established as maximum height limits for any vertical development, including any structure, road or tree or other object of natural growth, in the airport hazard district, except where sections 13-9 and 13-12 of this chapter shall establish lesser height restrictions. For purposes of this regulation, a public road shall be considered a fifteen-foot vertical development and a private road a ten-foot vertical development.
b.
Vertical development standards are vertical standards measured in respect to elevations whose datum is the horizontal plane established by runway elevations. For example, if a point in an airport hazard area permits at a specific point development up to "X" feet, that means "X" feet above the runway horizontal plane and not "X" feet above the natural grade of the land at that point in the airport hazard area.
c.
The vertical standards within the runway subzone of an airport hazard area are determined first by establishing the elevations at the runway center-lines at the ends of the runway subzone of the airport hazard area. From those elevations at the runway subzone ends, a line is run 90° outward from each side of the runway centerline for a distance of 125 feet. Within the area defined by those four points, no development is allowed above the natural grade of the soil except for runway and flight safety equipment.
1.
The vertical standards within the remainder of the runway subzone of an airport hazard area are determined by establishing places from the edges of the longitudinal zero foot development restriction line established in paragraph b above which slope upward at a rate of seven feet horizontally to one foot vertically. This upward plane ceases when it reaches the outer longitudinal borders of the runway subzone of any airport hazard area at the elevation of 150 feet above its starting point at the longitudinal zero foot development line.
2.
The methodology used to establish the vertical standards within the runway subzone of an airport hazard area is further graphically depicted in Figure 5[1].
[1]
Figure 5 is included as an attachment to this chapter.
d.
The vertical standards within the runway end subzone of an airport hazard area are determined by first establishing a place with a rising slope of one foot upward to 20 feet outward from the end of the runway end subzone. This plane is bisected by the extended runway centerline and is 250 feet in total width at its innermost dimension and widens uniformly along its 3,000-foot length so as to have a total width of 850 feet at its outermost dimension where it intersects with the outer most portion of the runway end subzone at the elevation of 150 feet above its starting point at the zero foot development line.
