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Airport Land Use Commission

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What We Do

Protect public health, safety, and welfare by ensuring the orderly expansion of airports and the adoption of land use measures that minimize the public’s exposure to excessive noise and safety hazards within areas around public airports to the extent that these areas are not already devoted to incompatible uses.

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ALUC Staff Contact Information
Michael Becker - Director of Planning
Andrew Orfila - Principal Transportation Planner

The Airport Land Use Commission

About ALUC

Documents

Resources

About ALUC

As the Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) for Santa Barbara County, SBCAG is responsible for protecting public health, safety and welfare by ensuring that vacant lands in the vicinity of airports are planned and zoned for uses compatible with airport operations.

Airport Land Use Compatibility Plans serve as a tool for the Airport Land Use Commission to review land use plans and development proposals within Airport Influence Areas.  These Plans also provide land use compatibility policies and criteria applicable to local jurisdictions in their preparation or amendments of General Plans. 

Documents

Airport Land Use Compatibility Plans (ALUCP)

• Santa Barbara Airport ALUCP (Jan. 2023)
  • Appendix A
  • Appendices B - G
• Santa Maria Airport ALUCP (Jan. 2023)
  • Appendix A
  • Appendices B - G
• Lompoc Airport ALUCP (Jan. 2023)
  • Appendix A
  • Appendices B - G
• Santa Ynez Airport ALUCP (Jan. 2023)
  • Appendix A
  • Appendices B - G
• Vandenberg Space Force Base ALUCP (Jan. 2023)
  • Appendix A
  • Appendices B - G

​SBCAG Regional Data Platform

• ALUCP Web-based Tool​

ALUCPs Update CEQA Documents

• Notice of Determination
• CEQA Findings
• Notice of Intent to Adopt an IS/ND for the ALUCPs
• Negative Declaration (ND)
• Initial Study (IS)
• IS Appendix A - Compatibility Criteria Tables
• IS Appendix B - Development Displacement Analysis: Santa Barbara Airport
• IS Appendix C - Development Displacement Analysis: Santa Maria Airport
• IS Appendix D - Development Displacement Analysis: Lompoc Airport-Vandenberg Space Force Base
• IS Appendix E - Development Displacement Analysis: Santa Ynez Airport
• IS Appendix F - Induced Growth Analysis

​SBCAG Responses to Comments on ALUCPs and IS/ND

• SBCAG Responses to Comments (Dec. 15, 2022)
• Final Caltrans Aeronautics Comments on ALUCPs (December 20, 2022)

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Meetings

Subject	Date	Time	Meeting Link
Public Meeting: North County ALUCPs & Initial Study / ND Presentation slides	November 15, 2022	12:00 PM	Archived recording ​Passcode: ​3%KURuj9
Public Meeting:  ​Santa Barbara ALUCP & ​Initial Study ND Presentation slides	November 15, 2022	5:00 PM	Archived recording Passcode: ^*sV3gW#

Resources

Resource	Description
Caltrans Division of Aeronautics	Provides guidance to ALUCs on airport land use compatibility planning as well as a link to download the 2011 California Airport Land Use Planning Handbook.

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