Brown Field Municipal Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan

CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION1.4.2 Project ReferralsThe types of land use actions for which referral to the ALUC are mandatory include the adoption andamendment of general plans if land within an AIA, as defined by the ALUC, is impacted. Thisrequirement to refer land use actions to the ALUC for review should be indicated in the general plans ofall affected local agencies.Beginning with adoption of the compatibility plan by the ALUC and continuing until each affected localagency has made the necessary modifications to its general plan or overruled the ALUC’s compatibilityplan, all subsequent land use actions, regulations and permits within the AIA must be submitted to theALUC for review. After the local agency has made its general plan consistent with the compatibility planor has overruled the ALUC’s compatibility plan, submittal of individual actions, regulations, and permitsgenerally is not required. The ALUC and the local agency, however, can agree on continued submittal ofcertain actions on an informal basis.Proposed airport master plans, expansion of an existing airport, and plans for construction of a newairport (or heliport) also must be submitted to the ALUC for review in accordance with Public UtilitiesCode sections 21676 (c), 21664.5, and 21661.5, respectively. This referral requirement is independent ofwhether the local agency has taken action with regard to the consistency of its general plan.1.5 PLAN CONTENTSThis Compatibility Plan is complete unto itself and is separate and independent from compatibility plansadopted by the ALUC for other airports in San Diego County. This Compatibility Plan is organized intofour chapters and nine appendices. The intent of this introductory chapter is to set the general overallcontext of airport land use compatibility planning and for the Airport and the San Diego County ALUC inparticular.Chapters 2 and 3 contain the policies by which the ALUC operates and conducts compatibility reviews ofproposed land use and airport development actions. The policies in Chapter 2 are written broadly, so asto address overarching compatibility concerns. The compatibility criteria and other policies applicable tothe Airport are described in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 presents a variety of background data on the Airportand its environs, and documents the data and assumptions on which the compatibility policies for theAirport are based.The appendices contain copies of state and Federal statutes pertaining to airport and airport land usecompatibility planning and other supporting information.1–8Brown Field Municipal Airport Land Use Compatibility PlanJanuary 25, 2010