The Fayette Citizen-News Page
Friday, February 12, 1999
Hangar overhang gets airport authority OK

By KAY S. PEDROTTI
Staff Writer

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Loitering at the Falcon Field Airport is discouraged, but you can't hang out over their property either not without paying.

David Milton will have to pay an extra $10 a month on his lease at the Peachtree City general aviation field because a balcony he wants on his new hangar at lot D24 would extend 3.5 feet over his lot line. Airport Authority member David Good challenged the wisdom of "letting somebody encroach over our property without getting some return on it."

Airport Manager Jim Savage said he did not think the balcony would pose any kind of problem for ground aircraft parking "because it's 11 feet in the air." Chairman Bob Patterson said Milton should only be charged for the amount of extra land which would actually be under the balcony.

Savage explained that hangar lots start 12 feet from the end of the asphalt, and then buildings are required to be 2.5 feet back from that lot line.

Milton at one point asked whether he might be allowed to build a bigger building, since his lot size was being increased.

"Long as your balcony doesn't hang over the lot line," Good said. The 3.5-foot addition extends the 115-foot length of the proposed hangar to keep the lot in a rectangular shape, Patterson explained.


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