Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 660 - LAND CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT › Division 13 - AIRPORT PLANNING › Section 660-013-0100 - Airport Uses at Non-Towered Airports

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
Local government shall adopt land use regulations for areas
				within the airport boundary of non-towered airports identified in ORS
				836.610(1) that
				authorize the following uses and activities:
(1) Customary and usual aviation-related
			 activities including but not limited to takeoffs, landings, aircraft hangars,
			 tiedowns, construction and maintenance of airport facilities, fixed-base
			 operator facilities, a residence for an airport caretaker or security officer,
			 and other activities incidental to the normal operation of an airport.
			 Residential, commercial, industrial, manufacturing, and other uses, except as
			 provided in this rule, are not customary and usual aviation-related activities
			 and may only be authorized pursuant to OAR 660-013-0110.
(2) Emergency Medical Flight Services,
			 including activities, aircraft, accessory structures, and other facilities
			 necessary to support emergency transportation for medical purposes. "Emergency
			 Medical Flight Services" does not include hospitals, medical offices, medical
			 labs, medical equipment sales, and similar uses.
(3) Law Enforcement and Firefighting
			 Activities, including aircraft and ground based activities, facilities and
			 accessory structures necessary to support federal, state or local law
			 enforcement and land management agencies engaged in law enforcement or
			 firefighting activities. These activities include transport of personnel,
			 aerial observation, and transport of equipment, water, fire retardant and
			 supplies.
(4) Flight Instruction,
			 including activities, facilities, and accessory structures located at airport
			 sites that provide education and training directly related to aeronautical
			 activities. "Flight Instruction" does not include schools for flight
			 attendants, ticket agents, or similar personnel.
(5) Aircraft Service, Maintenance and
			 Training, including activities, facilities, and accessory structures provided
			 to teach aircraft service and maintenance skills, maintain, service and repair
			 aircraft and aircraft components, but not including activities, structures, and
			 facilities for the manufacturing of aircraft for sale to the public or the
			 manufacturing of aircraft related products for sale to the public. "Aircraft
			 Service, Maintenance and Training" includes the construction of aircraft and
			 aircraft components for personal use. The assembly of aircraft and aircraft
			 components is allowed as part of servicing, maintaining, or repairing aircraft
			 and aircraft components.
(6)
			 Aircraft Rental, including activities, facilities, and accessory structures
			 that support the provision of aircraft for rent or lease to the
			 public.
(7) Aircraft Sales and the
			 sale of aeronautic equipment and supplies, including activities, facilities,
			 and accessory structures for the storage, display, demonstration and sale of
			 aircraft and aeronautic equipment and supplies to the public.
(8) Aeronautic Recreational and Sporting
			 Activities, including activities, facilities and accessory structures at
			 airports that support recreational use of aircraft and sporting activities that
			 require the use of aircraft or other devices used and intended for use in
			 flight. Aeronautic Recreation and Sporting Activities on airport property shall
			 be subject to approval of the airport sponsor. Aeronautic recreation and
			 sporting activities include but are not limited to: fly-ins; glider flights;
			 hot air ballooning; ultralight aircraft flights; displays of aircraft;
			 aeronautic flight skills contests; gyrocopter flights; flights carrying
			 parachutists; and parachute drops onto an airport. As used in this rule,
			 parachuting and parachute drops includes all forms of skydiving. Parachuting
			 businesses may be allowed only where they have secured approval to use a drop
			 zone that is at least 10 contiguous acres. A local government may establish a
			 larger size for the required drop zone where evidence of missed landings and
			 dropped equipment supports the need for the larger area. The configuration of
			 10 acre minimum drop zone shall roughly approximate a square or circle and may
			 contain structures, trees, or other obstacles if the remainder of the drop zone
			 provides adequate areas for parachutists to safely land.
(9) Crop Dusting Activities, including
			 activities, facilities and structures accessory to crop dusting operations.
			 These include, but are not limited to: aerial application of chemicals, seed,
			 fertilizer, pesticide, defoliant and other activities and chemicals used in a
			 commercial agricultural, forestry or rangeland management setting.
(10) Agricultural and Forestry Activities,
			 including activities, facilities and accessory structures that qualify as a
			 "farm use" as defined in ORS
			 215.203 or "farming practice" as
			 defined in ORS 30.930.
(11) Air passenger and air freight services
			 and facilities at public use airports at levels consistent with the
			 classification and needs identified in the state ASP.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183 & ORS 197
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  836.600 - ORS
				  836.630 & 1997 OL, Ch.
				  859