New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION
Chapter 62 - AIR SAFETY AND ZONING
Subchapter 4 - OBSTRUCTION ORDINANCE STANDARDS
Section 16:62-4.2 - Methodology used to define vertical development allowed within an Airport Safety Zone

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 16:62-4.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) Minimum obstruction ordinance standards establish the vertical limits up to which structures or trees may be allowed to be developed or grow.

(b) Minimum obstruction ordinance standards are vertical standards measured in respect to elevations whose datum is the horizontal plane established by runway elevations. For example, if a point in an Airport Safety Zone permits at a specific point development up to "X" feet, that means "X" feet above the runway horizontal plane and not "X" feet above the natural grade of the land at that point in the Airport Safety Zone. This provision is further graphically depicted in Figure 4.

(c) The vertical standards within the RUNWAY SUBZONE of an Airport Safety Zone are determined first by establishing the elevations at the runway centerlines at the ends of the RUNWAY SUBZONE. From those elevations at the RUNWAY SUBZONE ends, a line is run 90 degrees outward from each side of the runway centerline for a distance of 125 feet. Within the area defined by these four points, no development is allowed above the natural grade of the soil except for runway and flight safety equipment.

1. The vertical standards within the remainder of the RUNWAY SUBZONE of an Airport Safety Zone are determined by establishing planes from the edges of the longitudinal 0 foot development restriction line established in N.J.A.C. 16:62-4.2c which slope upward and outward at a rate of seven feet horizontally to one foot vertically. This upward plane ceases when it reaches the outer longitudinal borders of the RUNWAY SUBZONE of any Airport Safety Zone at the elevation of 150 feet above its starting point at the longitudinal zero foot development line.

2. The methodology used to establish the vertical standards within the RUNWAY SUBZONE of an Airport Safety Zone is further graphically depicted in Figure 5.

(d) The vertical standards within the RUNWAY ENDS SUBZONE of an Airport Safety Zone are determined by first establishing a plane with a rising slope of one foot upward to 20 feet outward from the end of the RUNWAY SUBZONE to the outermost end of the RUNWAY END SUBZONE. This plane is bisected by the extended runway centerline and is 250 feet in total width at its innermost dimension and widens uniformly along its 3,000 feet length so as to have a total width of 850 feet at its outermost dimension where it intersects with the outermost portion of the RUNWAY END SUBZONE at the elevation of 150 feet above its starting point at the zero foot development line.

1. The vertical standards within the remainder of the RUNWAY END SUBZONE of an Airport Safety Zone are determined by establishing sloping planes from the outermost longitudinal edges of the plane established in (d) above. These planes rise upward at a rate of one foot upward to seven feet outward from the plane established in (d) above to where they meet the outermost longitudinal boundaries of the RUNWAY END SUBZONE at the elevation of 150 feet.
i. The methodology used to establish the vertical standards with the RUNWAY END SUBZONE of an Airport Safety Zone is further graphically depicted in Figure 6.

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