2020-067 - Overruling the Orange County Airport Land Use

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the public health, safety and welfare through the adoption of land use measures that minimize the public's exposure to excessive noise and safety hazards to the extent that this area is not already devoted to incompatible uses. This Project would not add any new residential or commercial noise impacts to the JWA 65 dBA Community Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL) noise area. C. It is in the public interest to: provide for the orderly development of each public use airport in this state and the area surrounding these airports so as to promote the overall goals and objectives of the California airport noise standards adopted pursuant to PUC Section 21669 and to prevent the creation of new noise and safety problems. D. To provide for the orderly development of JWA and the area surrounding the airport, the ALUC adopted the 2008 AELUP on April 17, 2008. The AELUP guides development proposals to provide for orderly development of the airport and the area surrounding the airport through implementation of the standards in Section 2.1 (aircraft noise, safety compatibility zones, building height restrictions). E. The ALUC is required to use the California Airport Land Use Planning Handbook (Handbook) that was updated by the California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (Caltrans) in 2011. The AELUP has not been updated to incorporate the Handbook nor has it updated information about the operation and environmental effects of JWA as reflected in its most recent Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) certified by the Orange County Board of Supervisors on June 25, 2019 for the General Aviation Improvement Program (GAIP). F. On May 21, 2020, the City of Santa Ana presented the Mixed -Use development to the ALUC for a determination of consistency with the JWA AELUP. The ALUC staff report dated May 21, 2020, finds that with regard to AELUP issues of aircraft noise, building heights, safety zones and heliports, that the proposed project, zone change, and General Plan Amendment are each consistent. Despite consistency with each stated criteria of the AELUP, the ALUC staff recommended, "[t]hat the Commission find the proposed ...Mixed Use Project inconsistent with the AELUP for JWA per AELUP Sections 1.2 and 2.1.4 and PUC Section 21674. G. The Project is consistent with the AELUP of JWA and with the purposes of the State Aeronautics Act based on the following Findings of Fact and substantial evidence: a. Lack of evidence of inconsistency by the ALUC. b. There was no evidence presented by or to the ALUC at its hearing on May 21, 2020, to support finding of inconsistency, nor was there a request to provide supplemental information. The ALUC staff made a Resolution No. 2020-067 Page 4 of 13