Harvey Browne wrote to us asking…

We are in the process of creating a “Meadowmist Property Owners Association” and were wondering if you had any copies of by-laws for such organizations?
Best Regards,
Harvey

We sure do. You can check them out in our CC&Rs area of the Living With Your Plane website. If anyone associated with an airpark would like to offer up information for this section, please email us.

The ongoing question of "thru-the-fence" operations continues and recently we heard from a Colorado individual who received a negative letter from the FAA in the Northwest Region. Brain Krahmer’s letter follows along with the FAA’s letter. We also have included an FAA circular from 1989 relating to such operations.

It seems obvious that different FAA regions and local offices read and interpret the material in different ways and hopefully we can get an FAA-wide clarification on the issue. We know of several thru-the-fence projects that have been developed on public airports which have received FAA funding. The latest of which we are aware is Sandy’s Farm at the Clermont County Airport in Batavia, Ohio.

Here’s Krahmer’s letter:

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Recently a subscriber asked about the limitations on hangars in his community, particularly those larger than 2,000 square feet.

Recently we got responses from different parts of the country – California and Washington State.

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Here’s an avigation easement developed for Hidden Valley Airpark in Texas. Preparing such an easement for an airpark is important protection particularly if such agreements can be reached with those under the airpark flight patterns.

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Some time ago we added an item to help airparks make sure they provided secure systems for planes and homes. We explained that we feared in the nation’s current emphasis on security and national worry of all things aviation, sooner or later someone would call for the TSA to start requiring security at private and residential airparks.
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To amend title 49, United States Code, to enhance security at general aviation airports in the United States.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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One of the major issues that continually comes up in discussions about residential airparks is how a homeowners association or an airpark developer enforces the covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs) that have been established.

The violations of the CC&Rs can be extremely minor or they can be dramatic.
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A problem that crops up regularly at residential airparks concerns the individual who won’t live by the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs).
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