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Helicopter
issue takes
flight at
meeting
BY GERALD OCHS
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Pursuing the issue raised by Council member Alice Butler at its October meeting, the Washington Town Council discussed the possibility of regulating helicopter landings within Town boundaries.
Town attorney John Bennett presented relevant portions of the Culpeper town and county codes for reference. The Town of Culpeper permits heliports in its limited industrial M-l District on a conditional basis, and the County of Culpeper similarly authorizes airports and air landing strips in A-l Agricultural Districts, subject to the issuance of special use permits.
Bennett summarized the legal issues an<l options available to the Town: airspace is regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration and local government has no authority to interfere; local government does have the right to regulate helicopter landings via land use and zoning regulations; and the Town Council would have the authority to develop and promulgate helicopter landings within Town limits as long as such regulations are clear and not arbitrary.
Alice Butler expressed her support for such a regulation -the proximity of past landings to
See COUNCIL, Page A8
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