Titusville, FL Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

Chapter 29, Article III of Titusville's Land Development Regulations creates the Airport Impact Area Overlay District (AIA) around Arthur Dunn Airpark and Space Coast Regional Airport, and Sec. 29-46 establishes the noise impact zone as one of its four components alongside height notification, runway protection and avigation easement zones. The noise impact zone is defined as the area contiguous to each airfield measuring half the length of the longest runway shown on the official impact maps in Sec. 29-52, and for land use control purposes the City treats that boundary as consistent with the 65 to 75 LDN (day-night average sound level) zone established by an official 14 CFR Part 150 federal noise study.

Residential construction and educational facilities, other than aviation school facilities, are flatly prohibited from locating inside the zone. If the airfield later completes an approved 14 CFR Part 150 program and receives an approved noise exposure map, the City updates the zone boundaries to match the official study through an amendment to the zoning atlas. Uses that are not prohibited fall into two tiers: a list of permitted uses, such as offices, retail, manufacturing, warehousing, agriculture and hotels, that need no special review, and a shorter list of restricted uses, such as animal hospitals, hospitals, homes for the aged and places of religious assembly, that can locate in the zone only if the developer verifies in writing that the building achieves an outdoor-to-indoor noise level reduction of at least twenty-five decibels.

Existing nonconforming uses may continue under Sec. 29-49, and anyone wanting a use the section does not otherwise allow can apply to the Board of Adjustment and Appeals for a variance, with FDOT and the Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority given forty-five days to comment before the board acts.