Airport land use compatibility plans.

The State Aeronautics Act governs the creation and operation of airports in this state. The act provides for the establishment of county airport land use commissions to carry out various requirements, including the formulation of a comprehensive land use compatibility plan to provide for the orderly growth of airports and the area surrounding airports within the jurisdiction of the commission, and to safeguard the general welfare of the inhabitants within the vicinity of an airport and the public in general. The act requires each county in which there is an airport served by a scheduled airline, with certain exceptions, to establish an airport land use commission. The act requires the commission to include, within its airport land use compatibility plan, the area within the jurisdiction of the commission surrounding any military airport for specified purposes. Existing federal regulations provide for the establishment of military Air Installation Compatible Use Zones (AICUZs) . The State Aeronautics Act requires that an airport land use compatibility plan adopted by a county airport land use commission be consistent with the safety and noise standards in an AICUZ prepared for a military airport within the jurisdiction of the commission. This bill would require that an airport land use compatibility plan adopted by a county airport land use commission be consistent with the safety and noise standards in an AICUZ if the AICUZ was adopted on or after January 1, 2012, pursuant to a public process that resulted in adoption of an environmental impact statement pursuant to the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended.