2020-067 - Overruling the Orange County Airport Land Use

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xi. CalTrans Division of Aeronautics — Caltrans publishes the California Airport Land Use Planning Handbook ("Handbook") in accordance with State Law with the purpose to, " provide information to ALUCs, their staffs, airport proprietors, cities, counties, consultants, and the public; to identify the requirements and procedures for preparing effective compatibility planning documents; and define exemptions where applicable (Caltrans, 2011)." The Handbook provides specific guidance for assessing potential airspace obstructions in Section 4.5 Airspace Protection. xii. JWA — The FAA requires airport sponsors like Orange County to accept specific grant assurances when they accept federal funding. Hazard Removal and Mitigation and Compatible Land Use are two of these assurances (49 U.S.C. § 47107(a)(9) and (10)). For hazard removal, the Airport relies on the FAA's aeronautical study to meet its requirement. For compatible land use, the Airport relies on coordination with the surrounding cities and the ALUC. The following are the specific assurances: xiii. Hazard Removal and Mitigation. It will take appropriate action to assure that such terminal airspace as is required to protect instrument and visual operations to the airport (including established minimum flight altitudes) will be adequately cleared and protected by removing, lowering, relocating, marking, or lighting or otherwise mitigating existing airport hazards and by preventing the establishment or creation of future airport hazards. xiv. Compatible Land Use. It will take appropriate action, to the extent reasonable, including the adoption of zoning laws, to restrict the use of land adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of the airport to activities and purposes compatible with normal airport operations, including landing and takeoff of aircraft. In addition, if the project is for noise compatibility program implementation, it will not cause or permit any change in land use, within its jurisdiction, that will reduce its compatibility, with respect to the airport, of the noise compatibility program measures upon which Federal funds have been expended. e. Height. The residential and commercial land uses under the proposed project are consistent with the height standards of the AELUP. i. The proposed buildings associated with the Project would not exceed the sloping, three-dimensional 100:1 (one percent sloping surface from the nearest runway over 3,200 feet in actual length) FAA notification surface to require the Filing of FAA Form 7460-1. This fact is stated in the ALUC staff report and was repeated at the ALUC hearing on the Project. Despite this fact, the Project Resolution No. 2020-067 Page 8 of 13