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County planners were forced to deny a plan for two new baseball fields at Sports at the Beach.
On Wednesday, Jan. 20, the Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission heard from Vince Robertson, assistant county attorney, who gave his legal opinion about the Sports at the Beach proposal.
Robertson said he went back to the 2001 ordinance for conditional use applications and found that it stated that all plans are contingent on Federal Aviation Administration approval.
Sports at the Beach is a 95-acre baseball facility located on Route 9 outside Georgetown. Flight paths from the Georgetown airport often fly over the baseball fields and on the land use plans showing the property, areas are cross-hatched to denote where runway protection areas are, so that developers know they cannot encroach into those areas.
Robertson said in his research he found multiple documents requiring FAA approval for new conditional use development proposals and while the county has a long working history with Sports at the Beach, he said he could not see a way that this particular plan could be approved.
“In my mind, if the FAA is opposed to it … there’s your answer,” Robertson said.
County planners were forced to deny a plan for two new baseball fields at Sports at the Beach.
On Wednesday, Jan. 20, the Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission heard from Vince Robertson, assistant county attorney, who gave his legal opinion about the Sports at the Beach proposal.
Robertson said he went back to the 2001 ordinance for conditional use applications and found that it stated that all plans are contingent on Federal Aviation Administration approval.
Sports at the Beach is a 95-acre baseball facility located on Route 9 outside Georgetown. Flight paths from the Georgetown airport often fly over the baseball fields and on the land use plans showing the property, areas are cross-hatched to denote where runway protection areas are, so that developers know they cannot encroach into those areas.
Robertson said in his research he found multiple documents requiring FAA approval for new conditional use development proposals and while the county has a long working history with Sports at the Beach, he said he could not see a way that this particular plan could be approved.
“In my mind, if the FAA is opposed to it … there’s your answer,” Robertson said.
