Section 48.5  Introduction

a)         Zoning provisions regulating and restricting the height of structures and objects of natural growth, and otherwise regulating the use of property in the vicinity of the Greenville Airport by creating airport approach zones, transition zones, horizontal zone thereof; and conical zone, and establishing the boundaries providing for changes in the restrictions and boundaries of such zones; defining certain terms used herein; referring to the Greenville Airport zoning map (Note:  this zoning map can be viewed at the Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics, Capital Airport, Springfield, Illinois, 62706.  For an example of this information see 92 Ill. Adm. Code 18, Exhibits A, B and C.); providing for enforcement; imposing penalties in the interest of public safety and welfare.

b)         These zoning regulations are adopted at the request of the Greenville Airport Authority, a municipal corporation of the State of Illinois, as owner and operator of the Greenville Airport, pursuant to the authority conferred by an Act entitled, the Airport Zoning Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 15½, pars. 48.1).  It is hereby found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users of the Greenville Airport and of occupants of land or to property in its vicinity, and also if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces the size of the area available for the landing, taking off and maneuvering of aircraft, thus tending to destroy or impair the utility of the Greenville Airport and the public investment therein. Accordingly, it is declared:

1)         that the creation or establishment of an airport hazard is a public nuisance and an injury to the region served by the Greenville Airport;

2)         that it is necessary in the interest of the public health, public safety and general welfare that the creation or establishment of airport hazards by prevented, and

3)         that the prevention of these hazards should be accomplished to the extent legally possible by the exercise of the police power without compensation.

c)         It is hereby determined by the Department of Aeronautics, State of Illinois, that the zoning regulations for the Greenville Airport be adopted as follows: