St. Catharines Airport Zoning Regulations (SOR/84-901)

Short Title

1 These Regulations may be cited as the St. Catharines Airport Zoning Regulations.

Interpretation

• 2 (1) In these Regulations,

  airport

  airport means St. Catharines Airport at St. Catharines, in the regional Municipality of Niagara and in the City of St. Catharines, in the Province of Ontario; (aéroport)

  airport reference point

  airport reference point means the point described in Part I of the schedule; (point de repère de l’aéroport)

  approach surface

  approach surface means an imaginary inclined plane that extends upward and outward from each end of a strip, which approach surface is more particularly described in Part II of the schedule; (surface d’approche)

  Minister

  Minister means the Minister of Transport; (ministre)

  outer surface

  outer surface means an imaginary surface located above and in the immediate vicinity of the airport, which outer surface is more particularly described in Part III of the schedule; (surface extérieure)

  strip

  strip means the rectangular portion of the landing area of the airport, including the runway, prepared for the take-off and landing of aircraft in a particular direction, which strip is more particularly described in Part IV of the schedule; (bande)

  transitional surface

  transitional surface means an imaginary inclined plane that extends upward and outward from the lateral limits of a strip and its approach surfaces, which transitional surface is more particularly described in Part V of the schedule. (surface de transition)

• (2) For the purposes of these Regulations, the assigned elevation of the airport reference point is 95 m above sea level.

Application

3 These Regulations apply to all the lands, including public road allowances, adjacent to or in the vicinity of the airport, which lands are more particularly described in Part VI of the schedule.

General

4 No person shall erect or construct, on any land to which these Regulations apply, any building, structure or object or any addition to any existing building, structure or object, the highest point of which will exceed in elevation at the location of that point

• (a) the approach surface of any strip;

• (b) the outer surface; or

• (c) any transitional surface.

Natural Growth

5 Where an object of natural growth on any land to which these Regulations apply exceeds in elevation any of the surfaces referred to in paragraphs 4(a), (b) and (c), the Minister may make a direction that the owner or occupier of the land on which that object is growing remove the excessive growth.

Disposal of Waste

6 No owner or occupier of any land to which these Regulations apply shall permit that land or any part of it to be used for the disposal of any waste that is edible by or attractive to birds.