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1!Introduction rt 9.A. - Page 15 land uses. An airport master plan,which is prepared for and adopted by the entity that owns and operates the airport, assesses the demand for airport facilities and guides the development necessary to meet those demands. An ALP is intended to reflect both the current and future facilities needed to accommodate the forecasted demands on an airport as described in a master plan or Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) forecasts. The ALUCP should be consistent with the goals of the airport operator, insofar as these goals conform to regional planning policies, and take into account environmental impacts. State law provides that,before modification of an airport master plan,the public agency owning the airport must submit the proposed change to the appropriate airport land use commission for a finding of consistency with the ALUCP. Airport land use commissions follow the same procedures used for review of city or county actions when they review airport plans and proposed airport development projects. A public agency that operates an airport may override an airport land use commission with a two-thirds vote of its governing body, if it makes specific findings that the proposed action at the airport facility is consistent with the purposes of the State Aeronautics Act. 1 .2 ALUCNlmplementationv t2.1 General Plan Consistency State law requires local general plans and specific plans to be consistent with the land use compatibility policies of applicable ALUCPs. In the event that the ALUCP is amended,the law requires the local public agency to amend its general or specific plan within 180 days to be consistent with the revised ALUCP (Government Code, Section 65302.3). In the event that the local public agency does not concur with a provision of the ALUCP,the public agency may override the airport land use commission by a two-thirds vote after first notifying the airport land use commission and Caltrans' Division of Aeronautics at least 45 days prior to the decision to overrule the airport land use commission,holding a public hearing,and making findings that the general plan of the local jurisdiction is consistent with the intent of state law. To be consistent with an ALUCP, a general plan must specifically address compatibility planning issues and must avoid direct conflicts with compatibility planning criteria. Consistency implies that"the concepts, standards,physical characteristics, and resulting consequences of a proposed action must not conflict with the intent of the law of the compatibility plan to which the comparison is being made" (Caltrans,2002). The Handbook identifies the following methods for compatibility planning issues to be reflected in a general plan: •f Incorporate Policies into Existing General Plan Elements. This method requires the incorporation of all airport land use compatibility measures into appropriate general plan elements. For example,noise compatibility measures may be incorporated into the city's or county's general plan noise element. With this approach, direct conflicts between the ALUCP and general plan are eliminated and compliance mechanisms are fully incorporated into the local jurisdiction's general plan. SanfCarlosfAirportV 1-4 ESAfAirportsf/130753f ALUCPf W hitef Pape/ Junef2014f