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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Sacramento County Grand Jury
• 2001-2002
The Wilton Fire Protection District
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Findings 3 findings
F1
Page 58
The existing Airport Master Plan is over 20 years old and is currently being revised.
F2
Page 58
The Board of Supervisors did not include plans for Mather Field in the Airport Master Plan or in the alternative did not impose a developmental moratorium upon acquisition from the U.S. Air Force.
F3
Page 58
There are currently no plans by the Board of Supervisors and the City of Sacramento to prevent residential construction from encroaching into the operational sphere of influence of either Mather Field or Sacramento International airports. Sacramento County Grand Jury June 30, 2002 The Grand Jury believes it is therefore logical, relevant and instructive to consider the evaluations and determinations by state safety experts of what is considered safety and overflight hazards and disruptive noise levels when deciding on appropriate land uses. If prohibiting a school site within a 2-mile radius of an airport is required by the state, and children are at school only part of the day, it only seems logical that allowing residential construction within that zone where parents and children would live 24-hours a day, seven days a week is also inadvisable and inappropriate for exactly the same reasons.
Recommendations 3
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R1Page 58With regard to Sacramento International Airport, the Board of Supervisors should: a) expedite the revision and approval of the Airport Master Plan. b) make the growth, development and operation of Sacramento International Airport the highest planning, development, zoning and land use priority and objective for the airport’s operational sphere of influence, a 5-mile radius of the airport. c) show on the Airport Master Plan all future runways and operations planned through 2035. d) work with local cities and counties surrounding Sacramento International Airport to prevent residential and commercial/industrial encroachment into flight paths of all current and planned runways. e) provide planning for additional Category 3 runways. f) enact and enforce changes needed in the General Plan to insure that no land use decision will be approved that restricts, conflicts or interferes with Sacramento International’s growth, development and operation.
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R2Page 58With regard to Mather Field, the Board of Supervisors should: a. expedite the development and approval of the Airport Master Plan incorporating Mather Field. b. make the growth, development and operation of Mather Field as a “world class” air cargo hub the highest planning, development, zoning and land use priority within a 5-mile radius of the airfild. c. include a requirement for two Category 3 runways. d. enact and enforce changes needed in the General Plan to insure that no land use decision will be approved or allowed to continue that restricts, conflicts or interferes with Mather Field's growth, development and operation.
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R3Page 59a. The Board of Supervisors should require mandatory Grants of Avigation and Noise Easements in favor of the Sacramento County Airport System, Sacramento County and the City of Sacramento be obtained and required of anyone issued a permit or given permission to build within the sphere of influence (5-mile radius) of either airport. b. The Board of Supervisors and/or Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) should require and make it a mandatory condition that a Grant of Avigation and Noise Easement be granted to Sacramento County Airport System and Sacramento County for any property located within a 5-mile radius of Sacramento International Airport or Mather Field prior to any incorporation of a new city or annexation of land by an existing city. c. That a requirement for disclosure of these easements be included in any property transfer, lease or other use within the operational sphere of influence of both airports.