Provide safe, state-of-the art facilities for pilots, general aviation aircraft, passengers, and the businesses that support them.

Protect the quality of life of the community in consideration of the airport's immediate proximity to residential areas as well as concerns expressed by residents of the Township in neighborhoods adjacent to the airport about quality of life, noise and environmental issues.

Support regional transportation systems.

Provide support for emergency medical air transportation services for the greater Philadelphia area.

Preserve the land that surrounds the airport in its natural state, to provide for agricultural use and habitat for wildlife and natural and indigenous vegetation harmoniously with airport operations.

Retain and enhance, to the greatest extent possible, desirable characteristics, such as mature trees, historic structures and open space.

Provide aviation related educational opportunities.

Stimulate self-sustaining economic development and growth within the Township and region.

Airport, including the following, specifically related to such airport: runway and taxiways, aprons, helipads, hangars, tie downs, aircraft transient parking, aircraft repair and maintenance facilities, equipment storage, terminal buildings, airport management offices, aircraft management offices, aircraft sales and leasing offices, aircraft charter services, aviation related insurance sales, aviation education facilities, aircraft maintenance training facilities, aviation fuel storage and sales, aviation control facilities, navigational aids, weather station, aviation communication facilities, runway and taxiway identification lights, (not including airport approach lighting systems), and rotating beacons.

Accessory uses customarily incidental to the foregoing airport use, including:

Farm.

Private aviation club not to exceed 10,000 square feet of building area with one accessory swimming pool and one accessory tennis court. The aviation club shall be a private membership facility providing dining, beverage service, food preparation space, meeting space, club staff office, restrooms, and storage.

The following uses may be permitted by conditional use in the Airport Overlay District, subject to the requirements contained in this section and the procedures set forth in § 160-235:

Land area. The airport land area as defined in the Township Code of not less than 200 contiguous acres shall be provided for any property proposed to be developed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Airport Overlay District.

Hangar coverage. The total maximum building coverage allocated to hangar space shall not exceed 2.0% of the airport land area.

Preserved land. A minimum of 60% of the airport land area shall be retained as green area and considered preserved land and specified as such on the Airport Development Plan required by § 160-181.3. Uses such as a farm, stormwater management facilities, unpaved access driveways and trails (pervious and impervious), fences, permitted signage, runway and taxiway identification lights, and unpaved airport operation safety and operations areas/facilities (i.e., AWOS area, runway safety area, runway obstruction free zone) only shall be permitted within the Preserved land and counted as green area.

Maximum impervious cover. The maximum impervious cover within the airport land area shall be no more 20%. The maximum impervious cover within the airport operations area shall be no more than 75%.

Building setbacks. No building shall be erected or parking installed within 75 feet of the tract boundary or the ultimate roadway right of-way. When directly abutting and contiguous with a residential use or district, the tract setback shall be increased to 150 feet, except that such increased setback shall not apply where the building abuts a public or private street. Individual buildings shall be located no closer than 30 feet to other buildings.

Airport operations area. The airport operations area shall be clearly delineated by metes and bounds on the Airport Development Plan. A copy of the Airport Development Plan, showing the location of proposed areas of uses as permitted by right or as conditional uses together with, inter alia, the delineation of the airport operations area, is attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated herein by reference.[1] Upon adoption of the Airport Overlay District Ordinance, the Airport Development Plan may thereafter only be amended by a subsequent ordinance.

Any airport in the Airport Overlay District shall not make application for, obtain or maintain an airport operating certificate from the federal government in accordance with Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 139, as amended.

Any airport in the Airport Overlay District shall be limited to one runway with a length no greater than 3,800 linear feet.

Sign regulations. In the Airport Overlay District, the following signs may be erected and maintained:

Maximum tract area allowed for cluster housing: 10 acres.

Maximum gross density: one unit per two acres of allocated land.

Access to public street: All units shall share one means of vehicular access to an existing public street.