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II. THE <strong>AIRPORT</strong><br />

A. EXISTING FACILITIES AND <strong>AIRPORT</strong> ACTIVITY<br />

Borges-Clarksburg Airport is a privately owned facility located in eastern Yolo County,<br />

approximately one mile northeast of the Town of Clarksburg. Access to the airport is via County<br />

Road E-9. The airport was established in 1945 and received a permit from the Division of<br />

Aeronautics in 1949. The location of the airport is depicted in Figure 1.<br />

The airport's turf runway is 2,360 feet in length and 75 feet wide. there are currently 18 aircraft<br />

based at the airport. There are 25 open tiedowns, 12 shelters and 2 transient parking spaces.<br />

The most recent estimate of annual operations is 6,000.<br />

The majority of the airport is leased by Clarksburg Sports Flyers, Inc., which operates the<br />

airport. An aircraft repair facility, Smittyns Air Repair, ,leases a large hangar on the airport. Figure<br />

2 displays the existing airport layout.<br />

B. FUTURE FACILITIES AND <strong>AIRPORT</strong> ACTIVIN<br />

A formal master plan for the airport has not been developed. No specific plans for the<br />

development of future aviation facilities currently exist. The development of facilities in the past,<br />

particularly tiedowns and shelters, has occurred in response to demand as financing permits. It<br />

is expected that this trend will continue into the future.<br />

C. OFF-<strong>AIRPORT</strong> LAND USE<br />

While the airport itself is physically located in Yolo County, a portion of the airport's area of<br />

influence also encompasses a portion of Sacramento County across the Sacramento River. The<br />

primary land use surrounding the airport on the Yolo County side is agriculture. This area is<br />

zoned either as Agricultural Preserve (A-P), or as Agricultural General (A-I). The preservation<br />

of agricultural land is the major purpose of both of these zoning categories. Both also permit the<br />

construction of a single-family dwelling , or the placement of a mobile home, on a minimum<br />

parcel size of 20 acres.<br />

On the Sacramento County side of the river, the predominant land use categories, as adopted<br />

by Sacramento County, include Agricultural Cropland, Agricultural-Recreational, Recreational and<br />

Public-Quasi-Public.

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