<div class="chunk-title">APPENDIX A - AIRPORT ZONING ORDINANCE<sup>[1]</sup></div>
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            Enactment:
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            This ordinance is adopted pursuant to the authority conferred by G.S. 63-30â€”63-37.
            It is hereby found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users
            of the New Hanover County Airport and of occupants of land in its vicinity, and also,
            if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces the size of the area available for landing,
            taking off, and maneuvering of aircraft, thus tending to destroy or impair the utility
            of the New Hanover County Airport and the public investment therein. Accordingly,
            it is declared:
            
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               (1)
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               That the creation or establishment of an airport hazard is a public nuisance and an
               injury to the region served by the New Hanover County Airport; and
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               (2)
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               That it is necessary in the interest of public health, public safety, and general
               welfare that the creation or establishment of airport hazards be prevented.
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            It is further declared that both the prevention of 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 interest in land.
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            Preamble:
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            An ordinance regulating and restricting the height of structures and objects of natural
            growth, and otherwise regulating the use of property as specified in this ordinance,
            in the vicinity affected by the use of the New Hanover County Airport by creating
            primary zones, approach zones, transition zones, horizontal zone and conical zone,
            and establishing the boundaries thereof; providing for changes in the restrictions
            and boundaries of such zones; defining certain terms used herein; referring to the
            New Hanover County Airport Height Zoning Map which is incorporated in and made a part
            of this ordinance; providing for enforcement; establishing a board of adjustment;
            and imposing penalties.
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            IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER,
            STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AS FOLLOWS:
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            <p class="refeditorFN"><b>Editor's noteâ€”</b>
               Printed in this appendix is the county's airport zoning ordinance, as adopted by the
               board of commissioners on May 9, 1973. Amendments to the ordinance are indicated by
               parenthetical history notes following amended provisions. The absence of a history
               note indicates that the provision remains unchanged from the original ordinance. Obvious
               misspellings and punctuation errors have been corrected without notation. For stylistic
               purposes, headings and catchlines have been made uniform and the same system of capitalization,
               citation to state statutes, and expression of numbers in text as appears in the Code
               of Ordinances has been used. Additions made for clarity are indicated by brackets.
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            <p class="refcrossFN"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Aviation, ch. 8.
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