OXNARD AIRPORT GRANT TO HELP BUY FLIGHT EASEMENTS; FEDS PROVIDING $1.9 MILLION.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Daily News Staff Writer A clear line of sight for planes taking off and landing at Oxnard Airport Oxnard Airport (IATA: OXR, ICAO: KOXR, FAA LID: OXR) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) west of the central business district (CBD) of Oxnard, a city in Ventura County, California, USA. is the goal of a $1.9 million federal grant to acquire property easements EASEMENTS, estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit; it may arise by deed or prescription. Vide 1 Serg. & Rawle 298; 5 Barn. & Cr. 221; 3 Barn. & Cr. 339; 3 Bing. R. 118; 3 McCord, R. from local land owners. The grant, announced by Vice President Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore and approved recently by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. , allows the county to secure easements that limit structural heights and lighting they say could impede im·pede tr.v. im·ped·ed, im·ped·ing, im·pedes To retard or obstruct the progress of. See Synonyms at hinder1. [Latin imped pilots' visibility. ``We've been talking about those a long time,'' said Supervisor John K. Flynn, whose district includes the airport. ``People should not be able to build up tall around the airport.'' The grant provides funding for acquiring easements on a handful of properties that include a former high school site, churches and some commercial land on the east side of the airport. The project is among a series of improvements being proposed for the small airport, which sees about 40,000 passengers a year on commercial flights, small planes and corporate jets. Purchasing the easements will allow the airport to control air space above the land by preventing bright lights and tall buildings that aviation officials say could impede aircraft operation. Property owners are to be paid a portion of the assessed value of their land for the easements, said Rod Murphy, director of airports for the county. ``We're not going to close the church or anything like that,'' said Murphy. ``We just want to make sure we have the easement easement, in law, the right to use the land of another for a specified purpose, as distinguished from the right to possess that land. If the easement benefits the holder personally and is not associated with any land he owns, it is an easement in gross (e.g. . We'd like to keep it as open as possible.'' Oxnard Airport was among more than 30 airports up and down the state to receive $54.8 million in federal grants for airport improvements, Gore's office announced. Murphy said the funding for the Oxnard project comes from taxes on airline tickets and fuel. Officials said it probably would take the remainder of the calendar year to complete the purchase process. |
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