Chapter 15.332
AIRPORT INDUSTRIAL (AI) DISTRICT
Sections:
15.332.010 Description and purpose.
15.332.020 Permitted buildings and uses.
15.332.030 Buildings and uses permitted conditionally.
15.332.010 Description and purpose.
The purpose of the City of Newberg AI airport industrial district is to encourage and support the continued operation and vitality of Sportsman Airpark by allowing airport-related industrial uses, and as such to promote economic development for the City of Newberg and Yamhill County. The AI airport industrial district is intended to recognize those areas devoted to or most suitable for the immediate operational facilities necessary for commercial and noncommercial aviation. It is also intended to provide areas for those activities directly supporting or dependent upon aircraft or air transportation when such activities, in order to function, require or benefit from a location within or immediately adjacent to primary flight operations and passengers or cargo service facilities. It is further intended to provide appropriate locations for airport-related light industrial uses that are compatible with and benefit from air transportation. [Ord. 2647, 6-5-06. Code 2001 § 151.448.]
15.332.020 Permitted buildings and uses.
A. In the AI airport industrial district, the following buildings and uses are permitted as hereinafter specifically provided.
B. The buildings and uses are subject to the general provisions and exceptions set forth in this code:
1. Customary and usual aviation-related activities, including but not limited to takeoffs and landings; aircraft hangars and tie-downs; construction and maintenance of airport facilities; fixed- based operator facilities; and other activities incidental to the normal operation of an airport, including operation of fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, hot air balloons, and gyrocopters.
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 do not include hospitals, medical offices, medical labs, medical equipment sales, and other 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 or land management agencies engaged in law enforcement or firefighting activities. Law enforcement and firefighting activities include transport of personnel, aerial observation, and transport of equipment, water, fire retardant and supplies.
4. Search and rescue operations, including aircraft and ground-based activities that promote the orderly and efficient conduct of search- or rescue-related activities.
5. Flight instruction, including activities, facilities, and accessory structures located at airport sites that provide education and training directly related to aeronautical activities. Flight instruction includes ground training and aeronautic skills training, including schools for flight attendants, ticket agents or similar personnel.
6. Aircraft service, maintenance and training, including activities, facilities and accessory structures provided to teach aircraft service and maintenance skills and to maintain, service, refuel or repair aircraft or aircraft components.
7. Aircraft rental, including activities, facilities and accessory structures that support the provision of aircraft for rent or lease to the public.
8. Aircraft sales and the sale of aeronautic equipment and supplies, including activities, facilities and accessory structures for the storage, display, demonstration and sales of aircraft and aeronautic equipment and supplies to the public.
9. Aerial mapping and surveying.
10. Air cargo warehousing and distribution facilities.
11. Aircraft and aircraft component manufacturing or assembly.
12. Aviation and space technology development and research.
13. Aircraft or air transportation businesses.
14. A business that owns an aircraft, keeps it at their industrial site, and relies on the aircraft as an important tool or platform for their work.
15. A business activity that relies on regular use of a general aviation aircraft by the business or its clients.
16. Auto rental agencies.
17. Day care and recreational facilities exclusively for employers and employees of businesses located within this district.
18. Greenways, including but not limited to bicycle and pedestrian paths.
19. Public and semi-public buildings, structures and uses that provide necessary services to an airport, such as fire stations, pump stations and water storage.
20. Schools relating to airport operation.
21. Snack shop for airport clientele with a total floor area no larger than 800 square feet.
22. One residence of area not more than 40 percent of the area of the hangar floor, up to a maximum of 1,500 square feet, for an airport caretaker or security officer on each separate parcel.
23. Manufacturing, assembling, testing, repairing, packaging and distribution of precision testing optics; precision testing equipment; components, devices, equipment, instruments and systems of an electronic or electromagnetic nature, such as coils, tubes, semi-conductors and similar components; communications, navigation, transmission and reception equipment, control equipment and systems; data processing equipment and systems; electronic parts and components; metering instruments; telecommunications equipment; and scientific instruments; upon demonstration that the use is dependent upon or benefits from air transportation.
a. An industrial use is dependent upon air transportation if it requires a location at or adjacent to an airport to be economically viable. Economic viability is measured by determining whether the use or activity would suffer an economic disadvantage if not located at or adjacent to an airport. Considerations include the percentage of business done with air cargo; the industry’s dependence on air transportation by staff, management, sales, personnel, vendors, or clientele; the industry’s site size requirements; and the industry’s interest in locating in a nonmetropolitan area of the state.
b. Industrial uses shall be considered dependent upon air transportation where:
i. More than 10 percent of the products produced would be shipped through air cargo; or
ii. More than 30 percent of gross sales would be with customers located out of state; or
iii. The business owns an aircraft, keeps it at their industrial site, and relies on the aircraft as an important tool or platform for their work; or
iv. Sales or service of the product requires a rapid response that can best be achieved through air transport; or
v. The use would suffer an economic disadvantage if not located at or adjacent to an airport.
24. Private streets that function as taxiways are allowed within the AI district and may include gates for safety purposes with designs approved by the fire marshal, at the limit of the taxiways. [Ord. 2647, 6-5-06. Code 2001 § 151.448.1.]
15.332.030 Buildings and uses permitted conditionally.
In addition to the buildings and uses permitted conditionally listed in NMC 15.305.020, the planning commission may grant a conditional use permit for any of the following buildings and uses in accordance with a Type III procedure:
A. Motels, hotels, and gift shops, upon demonstration that they are compatible with airport operations.
B. Cafeterias and restaurants, upon demonstration that they are compatible with airport operations.
C. Aeronautic recreational and sporting activities, including activities, facilities and accessory structures at airports that support recreational usage 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 authorized under this subsection include, but are not limited to, fly-ins; glider flights; ultralight aircraft flights; displays of aircraft; and aeronautic flight skills contests. [Amended during 11/13 supplement; Ord. 2647, 6-5-06. Code 2001 § 151.448.2.]