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CITY OF KENAI
PLANNING & ZONING
COMMISSION
WORK SESSION
MAY 28, 2014 6:00 - 7:00 P.M.
AIRPORTS AS CONDITIONAL USES IN
THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL
ZONES
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MEMORANDUM:
TO: Planning and Zoning Commission
FROM: Francis Krizmanich, City Planner
DATE: May 28, 2014
SUBJECT: Airports as Conditional Uses in the Industrial and Commercial zones
On May 14, the staff discussed airport development as a Principal Permitted Use in the
City's Industrial zone districts with the Planning Commission (as an informational item).
At the end of that meeting I proposed that I would return for a work session with you on
this topic. Since that meeting, I realized that airports are also allowed as a Principal
Permitted Use in the Central Commercial (CC) and the General Commercial (CG) zone
districts. If we are going to consider Conditional Use Permits (CUP's) for the industrial
zones, I think that it would be appropriate to also consider CUP's for the above
commercial zones.
The Commission requested that I further discuss the issue with the City Manager and
City Attorney. My discussion with them indicates that we can and should regulate
private airport development in these zones and that we would use the standard
conditional use process. As part of that process, we would work with the City Airport
staff and Commission and the FAA as appropriate. Typical conditional use issues that
we would review would include conformance with adopted plans, hours of operation,
lighting, frequency of use, noise, approaches, neighborhood compatibility, etc.
"Airports and Related Uses" are currently listed in the Land Use Table, KMC Section
14.22.010, as a Principal Permitted Use in the Central commercial (CC), General
Commercial (CG), Light Industrial (IL) and the Heavy Industrial (IH) zone districts.
As defined in our code, "Airport" means a location where aircraft such as fixed -wing
aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained
at an airport. An airport consists of at least one (1) surface such as a runway for a plane
to take off and land, a helipad, or water for takeoffs and landings, and often includes
buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminal buildings."
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The staff opinion is that amending the Land Use Table to refer to only Airports and
deleting Related Uses would be appropriate given that Airport is defined in the code;
whereas, Related Uses is not defined.
In addition, the staff opinion is that changing the Land Use Table to make Airport a
Conditional Use in the Central Commercial, General Commercial and Industrial zone
districts would be an appropriate mechanism to provide for some safeguards for any
new airport development in these areas.
Deleting the Related Uses wording would allow related uses to occur as they would
otherwise be allowed by other zoning provisions such as Retail, Warehouse, Storage
Yard, etc. without unnecessarily burdening the business community with needless
conditional use reviews for the related uses.
The Land Use Table would be amended as shown below. Underlining denotes code
additions, brackets and capitol letters denote deletions.
KMC 14.20.010 LAND USE TABLE
INDUSTRIAL CIRRIRRIIRSI RS1 RS2 RU CC JCG JIL IIH ED R TSH LC CMU
Airports P I C N C N [NC C[P] C[P] C[P] C[P] N C N N C
[AND,RELATED
USES]