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Division 15 — Airport Land Use Compatibility Overlay Zone

§132.1502 Where the Airport Land Use Compatibility Overlay Zone Applies

San Diego Zoning Code · 2026-06 edition · updated 2026-07-25 · San Diego

  • (a) This overlay zone applies to properties that are located within an airport influence area as identified in an adopted Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan for a public use or military airport. Property within this overlay zone may be located within multiple airport influence areas. Table 132-15A lists the airport influence areas that apply within the boundaries of the overlay zones as identified on the listed maps, on file in the office of the City Clerk.

Table 132-15A Airport Influence Areas

Airport Map Number
Showing Boundaries of
Airport Influence Areas
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS)
Miramar
C-933
Brown Field Municipal Airport C-944
Gillespie Field C-947
Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport C-939
San Diego International Airport C-953
Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF)
Imperial Beach
C-987
Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI) C-1014

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San Diego Municipal Code (10-2024)

Chapter 13: Zones

  • (b) Airport influence area maps identified in Table 132-15A indicate the boundary of the airport influence area for a particular airport and divide the airport influence area into Review Areas 1 and 2, as further explained in Section 132.1505.

  • (c) Table 132-15B indicates the type of permit required by this Division, if any, for specific types of development proposals within this overlay zone.

Table 132-15B

Airport Land Use Compatibility Overlay Zone Applicability[1 ]

Type of_Development_Proposal Supplemental
Development
Regulations
Required Permit
Type/
Decision Process
_Development_that complies with the applicable
compatibility regulations or that is listed as exempt in
Section 132.1505.
132.1505 No permit required
by this Division
Non-residential_development_where alternative
compliance is requested to demonstrate safety
compatibility in accordance with Section 132.1515(d)
using an equivalent calculation of people per acre.
132.1515 Neighborhood
Development
Permit/ Process Two
Non-residential_development_in the Brown Field
Municipal Airport or Montgomery-Gibbs Executive
Airport influence areas where additional intensity is
requested for a building designed to minimize risk and
increase safety of building occupants beyond the
minimum requirements of the California Building
Code in accordance with Section 132.1515(g)(2).
132.1515 Neighborhood
Development
Permit/ Process Two
_Development_as required for safety compatibility in
accordance with Section 132.1515 Tables 132-15G and
132-15H.
132.1515 Site Development
Permit/ Process
Three
_Development_proposing to deviate from this Division. 132.1510
132.1515
132.1520
132.1535
132.1540
Site Development
Permit/
Process Five

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San Diego Municipal Code (10-2024)

Chapter 13: Zones

  • 1 Development within this Division that is exempt from a permit may be required to obtain a consistency determination from the Airport Land Use Commission, in accordance with Section 132.1550.

    • (“Where the Airport Land Use Compatibility Overlay Zone Applies” added 10-25-2011 by O-20047 N.S.; effective 1-1-2012.)

(Amended 12-17-2021 by O-21380 N.S.; effective 1-16-2022.)

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