SB 758, as introduced, Block. San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.
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 law exempts the County of San Diego from the requirement to establish a commission and, instead, makes the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority responsible for the preparation, adoption, and amendment of an airport land use compatibility plan for each airport in San Diego County.
This bill would exempt the preparation, adoption, or amendment by the authority of an airport land use compatibility plan for the City of Coronado from the requirement that a land use compatibility plan include the area surrounding a military airport within the commission’s jurisdiction. The bill instead would authorize the authority to include within the plan for the city the area within the jurisdiction of the authority surrounding any military airport.
The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Coronado.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 21670.3 of the Public Utilities Code is
2amended to read:
(a) Sections 21670 and 21670.1 do not apply to the
4County of San Diego. In that county, the San Diego County
5Regional Airport Authority, as established pursuant to Section
6170002, shall be responsible for the preparation, adoption, and
7amendment of an airport land use compatibility plan for each
8airport in San Diego County.
9(b) Subdivision (b) of Section 21675 does not apply to the
10preparation, adoption, or amendment of an airport land use
11compatibility plan for the City of Coronado by the San Diego
12County Regional Airport Authority. The San Diego County
13Regional Airport Authority may include, within its airport land
14use compatibility plan
for the City of Coronado, the area within
15the jurisdiction of the authority surrounding any military airport.
16This subdivision does not give the San Diego County Regional
17Airport Authority any jurisdiction or authority over the territory
18or operations of any military airport.
19(b)
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20begin insert(c)end insert The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority shall
21engage in a public collaborative planning process when preparing
22and updating an airport land use compatibility plan.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special law
24is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable
25within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
26Constitution because of the unique island location of the City of
27Coronado and its proximity to large military installations.
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