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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
January 24, 2014 - Introduced by Representatives Schraa, Thiesfeldt, Bies, A.
Ott, Krug, Bernier and Spiros, cosponsored by Senators Gudex and
Grothman. Referred to Committee on Urban and Local Affairs.
AB671,1,2
1An Act to amend 114.136 (2) (a) of the statutes;
relating to: local airports and
2the process for enacting aerial approach ordinances.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, any county or city, village, or town (municipality) in this
state may own and operate airports or airport facilities, such as landing fields or
take-off strips, or spaceports or spaceport facilities (collectively "airports"), either
within or outside the limits of the county or municipality. A county or municipality
that owns an airport may protect the aerial approaches to the airport by adopting an
ordinance regulating, restricting, and determining the use, location, height, number
of stories, and size of buildings and structures and objects of natural growth in the
vicinity of the airport (within three miles of an airport or five miles of a spaceport).
To initiate the adoption of an aerial approach ordinance, one of the following must
hold at least one public hearing after giving the public notice and formulate a
tentative ordinance: 1) if a county owns the airport, the county park commission or,
if the county has a county executive or county administrator, the county park
manager, except that if there is no such commission or manager, a committee of the
governing body of the county; 2) if a city or village owns the airport, the city or village
plan commission or, if there is no such commission, a committee of the governing body
of the city or village; or 3) if a town owns the airport, a committee of the governing
body of the town.
Under this bill, an aerial approach ordinance is always initiated by a committee
of the governing body of the county or municipality that owns the airport, which, as
under current law, must hold at least one public hearing after giving notice and
formulate a tentative ordinance.
For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB671,1
1Section
1. 114.136 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB671,2,112
114.136
(2) (a) Except as provided by sub. (1) (b) or (c),
the county park
3commission in the case of any county except any county with a county executive or
4county administrator in which case the county park manager, the city or village plan
5commission in the case of a city or village, or if there is no such commission or
6manager, a committee of the governing body
or bodies of the county, city, village
, or
7town
which that owns the airport or spaceport site shall formulate a tentative
8ordinance
under sub. (1) and hold a public hearing or hearings thereon in some public
9place within the county, city, village
, or town. Notice of the hearings shall be given
10by publication of a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, in the area affected by the proposed
11ordinance.
AB671,2
12Section
2.
Initial applicability.
AB671,2,1413
(1) This act first applies to ordinances initiated, and ordinance amendments
14initiated, on the effective date of this subsection.
