Sec. 656.1005.2. - Subsection B. Regulations Applicable to Designated Military Airport Environs.
(a) Military airport environ zones are designated in accordance with Table 656-3, below.
Table 656-3
Military Airport Environ Area | DNL Range/Comment
Noise Zone A | 75 or Greater
Noise Zone B | 65—74.99
Airport Notice Zone | 60—64.99
Height and Hazard Zones (HH) | As defined in 656.1004(R)
Accident Potential Zone 1 (APZ1) | As defined in 656.1004(A)
Accident Potential Zone 2 (APZ2) | As defined in 656.1004(B)
Lighting Regulation Zone | As defined in 656.1004(S)
Clear Zone (CLZ) | No development except as in 656.1004(L)
(b) Allowable land uses in noise zones and accident potential zones. Notwithstanding the zoning district regulations contained elsewhere in this Chapter, the allowable land use for a parcel of land lying within a noise zone and/or an accident potential zone shall be modified as set forth by the regulations in this Section.
(1) The land use objectives shown in Table 656-4, below, shall determine, subject to the zoning classification of the parcel, allowable land uses for the airport environs area within which a given parcel of land lies.
(2) Land use objectives are delineated in three categories:
(i) Unacceptable development (X), which means that, even though otherwise permitted in the zoning classification of the parcel, the land use is prohibited as delineated by Table 656-4, below.
(ii) Conditional new development (C), which means that, even though otherwise permitted in the zoning classification of the parcel, prior to commencement of the land use indicated, the use shall meet the guidelines set forth in the footnotes to Table 656-4, below.
(3) Acceptable development (A), which means that the provisions of the appropriate zoning classification of the parcel shall apply as well as Airport Notice Zone Acknowledgement requirements.
Table 656-4
Land Use Category | APZ1 | APZ2 | Noise Zone A >75 DNL | Noise Zone B 65—74.99 DNL | Airport Notice-Zone 60—64.99 DNL
Residential:
Single-family dwelling, including homes where foster children have been placed with an individual family | C, 1, 17, 18, 19 | C, 1, 7 | C, 1, >16, 17,18, 19 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Accessory Structure to Single Family Residence | A, 1 | A | C, 1, 16 | C, 2 | A
Multifamily dwelling | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Mobile home park | X, 1 | X | X, 1 | X | C, 1
Orphanages and group foster care/family care homes | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Group care home and similar uses | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Rooming house/boarding house | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Commercial:
Retail outlets for the sale of general merchandise (including sale of food), wearing apparel and similar uses | X, 1 | C, 1, 10 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 3 | C, 1
Retail sales of building materials, hardware, farm equipment, new or used automobiles, mobile homes, boats and similar uses | A, 1 | A | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 3 | C, 1
Commercial parking lot | A, 1 | A | C, 1 | C, 1 | C, 1
Retail sale of furniture, home furnishings and similar uses | X, 1 | C, 1, 10 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 3 | C, 1
Service establishments such as restaurants (including drive-in restaurants), service of alcoholic beverages and similar uses | X, 1 | A,1 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 3 | C, 1
All types of professional and business offices, personal services, professional or business including building trades contractors and similar uses | X, 1 | C, 1, 9 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 3 | C, 1
Commercial indoor recreational or entertainment facilities | X, 1 | X | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 3 | C, 1
Repair services and services garages including automobile repair, radio and television repair and similar uses | A, 1 | A, 1 | C, 1, 13 | C, 1, 13 | C, 1
Automobile service station | X, 1 | A, 1 | C, 1, 13 | C, 1, 13 | C, 1
Motel or hotel | X, 1 | X | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Radio and television broadcasting offices and studios, telephone exchange and similar uses | X, 1 | C, 1, 9 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Medical and other health services such as hospitals, clinics and similar uses | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Industrial:
Wholesaling, warehousing storage or distribution establishments, assembling of components and similar uses | A, 1 | A, 1 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1
Freight, bus, traveling, shipping or other transportation terminals | C, 1, 8 | A, 1 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1
Manufacturing of food and kindred products, apparel, textile mill products and similar uses | X, 1 | A, 1 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1
Manufacturing of chemicals and allied products, petroleum refining and related activities, rubber and miscellaneous plastic products and similar uses | X, 1 | X | C, 1, 14 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1
Manufacturing of lumber and wood products, furniture and fixtures, paper and allied products, stone, clay and glass products, primary metal including fabrication of metal products and similar uses | X, 1 | A, 1 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1
Printing, lithography, publishing or similar establishments | X, 1 | A, 1 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1
Manufacturing of professional, scientific and control instruments, prosthetic appliances, dentures, eyeglasses, hearing and similar products | X, 1 | A, 1 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1, 14 | C, 1
Public and Quasi-public Services:
Cemeteries | C, 1, 5 | C, 1, 5 | C, 1, 5 | C, 1, 5 | C, 1
Churches | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Governmental services, such as offices, fire stations, postal services and prisons | X, 1 | C, 1, 9 | C, 1, 16 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Schools | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | X, 15 | C, 1, 11
Cultural activities such as libraries, museums, art galleries and similar uses | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | X, 15 | C, 1
Private clubs and similar uses which provide for public assembly | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 2 | C, 1
Outdoor Recreation:
Playgrounds, neighborhood parks | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1
Community and regional parks | C, 1, 9 | C, 1, 9 | X, 1, 15 | X, 15 | C, 1
Nature exhibits | C, 1, 9 | C, 1, 9 | X, 1, 15 | X, 15 | C, 1
Spectator sports, including arenas | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | X, 15 | C, 1
Golf courses, riding stables and similar uses | C, 1, 9 | C, 1, 9 | C, 1, 6 | C, 1, 6 | C, 1
Private camps (including day camps) | X, 1 | X | X, 1, 15 | X, 15 | C, 1
Entertainment assembly, amphitheater, music shell and similar uses | X, 1 | C, 20 | C, 1, 15, 20 | C, 15, 20 | X
Resource Production, Extraction and Open Land
Agriculture, including livestock grazing | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1
Livestock farms, animal breeding | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1
Agriculture-related activities | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1
Forestry | C, 1, 4, 12 | C, 1, 4, 12 | C, 1, 12 | C, 1, 4, 12 | C, 1
A—Acceptable development
X—Unacceptable development
C—Conditional development, with conditions as noted:
1 Recorded Airport Notice Zone Acknowledgement applied to the parcel.
2 Compatible development is conditioned on design and construction providing for an average minimum NLR of average minimum 30 dBA throughout the facility or dwelling. Average minimum NLR is applicable only to habitable portions of accessory structures.
3 Compatible development is conditioned on design and construction providing for an average minimum NLR of average minimum 25 dBA throughout the facility or dwelling.
4 Permitted only within height constraints.
5 Rooms/buildings for funeral services, prayer and meditation are not permitted.
6 Compatible development is conditioned on design and construction providing for an average minimum NLR of average minimum 30 dBA in the clubhouse or other interior meeting structure.
7 Maximum density two dwelling units per acre.
8 No passenger terminals and no major above ground transmission lines.
9 Structures shall be limited to 5,000 square feet of gross floor area and development is subject to the condition that meeting places, auditoriums and so forth for a gathering of more than 50 people are not permitted or built.
10 Small neighborhood retail stores are compatible but strip malls and shopping malls are not.
11 Schools are further limited by FS 333.
12 Operations which attract a large concentration of birds should be excluded.
13 Compatible development is conditioned on design and construction providing for a noise level reduction of average minimum 30 dBA in reception, office and employee lounge areas.
14 Compatible development is conditioned on design and construction providing for a noise level reduction of average minimum 25 dBA in reception, office and employee lounge areas.
15 Development permitted in Planned Unit Developments approved prior to the enactment date of this ordinance or pursuant to preliminary site development reviews in accordance with Section 656.1003 and uses or structures permitted pursuant to Section 656.1008 shall also be subject to footnote 1 and footnote 2 of this table.
16 Compatible development is conditioned on design and construction providing for an average minimum NLR of average minimum 35 dBA throughout the facility or dwelling. Average minimum NLR is applicable only to habitable portions of accessory structures.
17 New residential uses are limited to development number, density and intensity existing by right pursuant the zoning code and comprehensive plan as of March 27, 2007.
18 New subdivisions located partially or wholly within a >75 DNL and APZ-1 zones are subject to the conceptual site plan review process in 656.1005.2(f).
19 The Building Inspection Division will provide to the U.S. Navy copies of any building permit applications for properties located within a >75 DNL and/or APZ-1 zones.
20 Allowed only if use is scheduled with the Planning Department and the U.S. Navy to minimize conflicts and enhance safety.
(c) Allowable development in Airport Height and Hazard zones (HH). Notwithstanding the zoning district regulations contained elsewhere in this Chapter, the allowable development on a parcel of land lying within an Airport Height and Hazard zone shall be modified as set forth by the regulations in this Section. Airport Height and Hazard zones exist around all military airports within the City limits of Jacksonville as defined in Section 656.1004(R). The horizontal limits of the zones and limitations on heights of obstructions within these zones are defined for each airport in NAVFAC P-80.3 01/82. The City of Jacksonville Planning and Development Department has GIS maps provided by the United States Navy showing the boundaries of the Airport Height and Hazard zones around each airport. In order to assure that NAVFAC P-80.3 01/82 guidelines are not exceeded and that no structure or obstruction is permitted that would raise a minimal obstruction clearance altitude, a minimum vectoring descent altitude or a decision height, all cell towers and any structure or obstruction in excess of the height limit above ground as depicted on the Zoning Atlas and the Airport Environs Maps, the City shall receive, in writing from the U.S. Navy, comment if the project is within an Airport Height or Hazard Zone. Although written documentation from the U.S. Navy or acceptable evidence that a parcel is not in a Height or Hazard Zone is not required for proposed structure heights below the listed height, Part 77 still applies.
(d) Miscellaneous Use Regulations apply to the development within Miscellaneous Use Zones that may be a hazard to aircraft in flight. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the Zoning Code to establish, maintain or continue a use within the surface limits of the height and hazard zone in a manner as to interfere with the operation of airborne aircraft. By City action, development proposals for miscellaneous uses as listed below shall be forwarded to the US Military. The following special requirements shall apply to each use lawfully established in the zones:
(1) Lights or illumination used in conjunction with street, parking, signs or use of land and structures shall be arranged and operated in such a manner that it is not misleading or dangerous to aircraft operating from an airport or in the vicinity thereof as determined by the airport operator.
(2) No operations of any type shall produce smoke, glare or other visual hazards within the limits of the zone that would adversely affect the safe flight of aircraft.
(3) No operations of any type shall produce electronic interference with navigation signals or radio communication between the airport and aircraft within the limits of the zone.
(4) In addition to the height limitations imposed by the height and hazard zone, no structure or obstruction will be permitted within the City that would cause a minimum vectoring altitude to be raised.
(5) No use of land, including those resource production/extraction/open land uses addressed in Section 656.1005 as well as ponds, borrow pits, waste disposal and other facilities which store, handle or process organic or any other material that fosters or harbors the growth of insects, rodents, amphibians or other organisms as they result in significant bird population increases above the normal background should be permitted which encourages or attracts large concentrations of birds or waterfowl within the vicinity of an airport.
(6) Within the Lighting Regulation Zone at Outlying Field Whitehouse, all artificial lighting equipment, including but not limited to flood lights and searchlights, whether temporary or permanent installations, shall have positive optical control so that no light is emitted above the horizontal plane. No building permit shall be granted in this zone unless this requirement is met. Development within the Lighting Regulation Zone at Outlying Field Whitehouse is subject to Airport Notice Zone Acknowledgements as required in Section 656.1010.
(e) Allowable development in clear zones (CLZ). Notwithstanding the zoning district regulations contained elsewhere in this Chapter, the allowable development on a parcel of land lying within a clear zone shall be modified as set forth by the regulations in this Section. A clear zone exists adjacent to the end of all military airport runways within the City limits of Jacksonville. The horizontal limits of the zones for each runway have been defined based on United States Navy criteria (NAVFAC P-80.3 01/82). For aviation safety, the clear zone should be cleared, graded and free of above ground objects (except for airfield lighting). The City of Jacksonville Planning and Development Department has GIS maps provided by the United State Navy showing the boundaries of the clear zones adjacent to each airport runway. Prior to modifying the use of a parcel of land, the owner or developer must review the GIS maps to determine if the parcel is located in whole or in part in the clear zone. If the parcel is found to be in one of the clear zones, the City will notify the United States Navy office of Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville must be notified in writing of the proposed changes to the use of the parcel. The U.S. Navy will then notify the City in writing of the compatibility of the use with the clear zone requirements.
(f) New subdivisions located partially or wholly within a >75 DNL and APZ-1 zone.
(1) New subdivisions located partially or wholly within a >75 DNL and APZ-1 area must provide the Planning and Development Department a conceptual site plan prior to preliminary civil plan review. The Director of the Planning and Development Department shall review the application for sufficiency, coordinate with the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and may request additional information. The U.S. Navy and the Planning and Development Department must provide comments to the applicant within 30 days of receipt of the submittal of a sufficient conceptual plan. During the 30-day period the City of Jacksonville, the U.S. Navy or other government agencies may request a meeting with the applicant to consider acquisition of property or development rights or a potential land exchange.
(2) New subdivisions must cluster development in a manner so as to eliminate or minimize residential development in the >75 DNL and/or APZ-1 portion of the property and minimize exposure of residences to negative effects of proximity to the airport use.
(3) Administrative deviations from subdivision regulations and reductions or waivers of lot development criteria (i.e. lot size, setbacks, road frontage) shall be authorized to accomplish the purpose set forth in subsection (f)(3) above through issuance of a final order by the Director, if it is determined that such reduction or waiver is not contrary to the limitations set forth in footnote 17 to Table 656-4.
(4) Any final order issued pursuant to this subsection shall be appealable in the same manner as a Written Interpretation, pursuant to Section 656.109. For the purposes of appealing such deviations and waivers, affected parties shall include the U.S. Navy and other adversely affected governmental agencies.
(Ord. 2006-1225-E, § 1; Ord. 2008-258-E, § 1; Ord. 2019-691-E, § 1)
