Public Meeting

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• Public Meeting 2
• June 2009

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Joint Land Use Study (JLUS)

• A cooperative land use planning and
  communications strategy between a military
  installation and surrounding communities
• Purpose is to protect the current and future
  military mission, while safely accommodating
  local growth

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Schedule

• Public Meeting Round 1 April
• Public Meeting Round 2 June 1 and 2
• Full draft report June/July
• Public Meeting Round 3 July
• Final report August

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Encroachment

• Encroachment occurs when
• Nearby development interferes with the ability of
  the military to perform its mission or causes
  modifications to operating procedures or
• Members of the public are exposed to a higher
  than normal level of operational impacts, such as
  noise or the risk of an aircraft accident

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Operational Impacts

• Fort Jackson/McCrady Training Center
• Noise related to large caliber weapons firing
  (lesser noise impacts are associated with small
  arms, tactical vehicles, demolition activity and
  transient aircraft)
• Vehicles of employees, visitors
• Low level helicopter flights
• Controlled burns on post

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Operational Impacts

• McEntire JNGB
• Risk of an aircraft accident
• Structures or objects that can interfere with
  safe aircraft operations
• Aircraft noise
• Bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH)
• Outdoor light intrusion on night vision training
  environment

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Planning Areas

• Areas in which tools may be used
• Accident Potential Zones
• Noise Zones
• Low level flight paths
• Buffers around the installation perimeter

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Compatibility Tools

• The JLUS is not a binding document, but a series
  of best practices to consider
• All recommendations related to zoning or land use
  management must still go through regular local
  legislative channels
• The JLUS is not a no growth plan
• Identifies development options that can fit
  safely with nearby training and readiness
  activities

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Conservation

• What is the Tool
• Involves the purchase of development rights on
  land with environmental sensitivity near the
  installations
• Land remains in private hands for traditional
  rural uses i.e. farming, hunting
• Strictly voluntary program
• Midlands Area Joint Installation Consortium is
  active in pursuing this approach

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Market-Based Tools

• What is the Tool
• Transfer of Development Rights allows the owner
  of land in a constrained (sending) area to sell
  development rights in the private market to other
  individuals
• The purchaser owning land in an area suitable for
  growth (receiving area) can use the credits to
  build more housing units than would otherwise be
  permitted

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Zoning

• What is the Tool
• Prohibits specific uses or an intensity of uses
  that can affect or be affected by adjacent
  training activities
• Should allow viable economic development
  opportunities that provide for a reasonable use
  of the land by property owners
• Can set limits on the number of housing units
  that can be built per acre or the size of
  non-residential buildings

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Outdoor Lighting

• What is the Tool
• Requires that exterior lights be shielded and
  downward facing
• Not retroactive in application applies only to
  new construction
• Usually focuses on commercial and industrial
  uses multi-family uses roads and highways and
  signs

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Sound Attenuation

• What is the Tool
• Special design and construction practices
  (windows, insulation, walls, doors) that lower
  the amount of noise and vibration that penetrates
  a building
• Not retroactive in application applies only to
  new construction in higher noise areas
• Only for noise-sensitive uses, primarily housing

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Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH)

• What is the Tool
• Standards for detention pond design and
  limitations on the location of sanitary landfills
  and other uses that attract birds and wildlife
  near airfields
• McEntire currently has a BASH mitigation plan in
  place

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Real Estate Disclosure

• What is the Tool
• Requires the release of information on possible
  impacts (dust, smoke, noise/vibration, air safety
  zones) to prospective buyers or renters as part
  of real estate transactions
• Can be applied to housing in higher noise areas
  or in Accident Potential Zones

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Avigation or Noise Easements

• What is the Tool
• Form of disclosure aimed at the developer during
  the initial stages of platting
• Grants the right of military training activities
  in proximity to the affected parcel (right to
  generate standard impacts i.e. noise, vibration,
  dust etc..)
• Runs in perpetuity with the deed to the property

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Avigation or Noise Easements

• What is the Tool
• Granting of a noise easement by the developer
  becomes a condition for the approval of a
  proposed new home subdivision
• The approving jurisdiction then holds the
  easement for the life of the title
• Can be applied to housing in higher noise areas
  or in Accident Potential Zones

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Comprehensive Plan

• What is the Tool
• Can include language on
• the relationship between the community and the
  military
• the desire to promote cooperative land use
  planning and complementary land use goals
• clear guidelines about appropriate future land
  use in areas vulnerable to encroachment

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Corridor/Small Area Plans

• What is the Tool
• Sets more detailed future land use vision for
  areas near installations
• Similar to the Southeast Richland Neighborhood
  Master Plan around the intersection of Lower
  Richland Boulevard and Garners Ferry Road
• Corridors around the post and base are in need of
  planning due to growth pressures

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Infrastructure

• What is the Tool
• Considers the impacts of both public and private
  infrastructure installation/extension (e.g. water
  and sewer facilities) into noise and safety
  affected areas
• Use infrastructure policy to guide future growth
  away from installations

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Transportation

• What is the Tool
• Alleviate localized traffic congestion due to
  activities on Fort Jackson

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Communication

• What is the Tool
• Develop mechanisms to provide adequate
  information about military operations, impacts,
  procedures to submit comments, and any local land
  use compatibility measures

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Coordination

• What is the Tool
• Promote collaboration by sharing information on
  specific community development proposals
  (rezonings and subdivisions)
• South Carolina requires local governments to
  consult with the military when zoning changes are
  proposed within 3,000 feet of installation
• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is a "good
  faith" document that establishes procedures for
  communication

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Residential Clustering

• What is the Tool
• Allows more compact lots in the developable
  portion of a site in exchange for the permanent
  protection of open space in areas of the parcel
  with development constraints
• Often used in areas of environmental sensitivity
  but can also be used for parcels that are split
  by noise contours or Accident Potential Zones

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Next Steps

• Public meetings in August
• Visit the web site and take a survey at
• http//www.jacksonjlus.com/