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Senator introduces bill to let towns regulate private airstrips, create aviation advisory council and require flight data tracking
Summary
S.134 would clarify municipal authority to permit restricted landing areas, place restricted landing areas under Act 250 review, create a statutory Aviation Advisory Council with industry and neighbor representatives, and require quarterly flight-data tracking at state-owned air navigation facilities with a large appropriation for technology.
Senator Bernie introduced S.134, a bill aimed at resolving uncertainty over municipal authority to regulate private airstrips and to improve data and public input around aviation activity. The bill would allow towns to include the "location, construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration of restricted landing areas" in local zoning bylaws and would explicitly make such restricted landing areas subject to Act 250 review, the sponsor said.
"So what this would do is first make it clear that towns can, include in their zoning bylaws, the location construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration of restricted landing areas," Senator Bernie said, explaining the measure responds to…
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