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Ms. Kylee Otto, Deputy City Attorney August 6, 2004 Page 3 (iii) Identification of Review and Approval Procedures. Lastly, the procedures fpr review and approval of individual development proposals must be defined. The types of actions that are to be submitted to the ALUC for review, and the timing of such submittals relative to the internal review and approval process, also must be indicated, with the goal in mind to achieve consistency. ' Some examples of the areas where the City's proposed General Plan Amendment does not provide adequate assurance of compliance with the AELUP's compatibility criteria are as follows: 1. The second paragraph on page one sets forth the statutory ALUC purposes including "to ensure that people and facilities are not concentrated in areas susceptible to aircraft accidents, and to ensure that no structures or activities adversely affect navigable airspace." The California state legislature's purpose in authorizing the creation of ALUC, however, has remained largely unchanged since the early 1970s. The purpose is succinctly stated in current law: "It is in the public interest to provide for the orderly development of each public use airport in this state and the area surrounding these airports so as to promote the overall goals and objectives of the California airport noise standards adopted pursuant to Section 21669 and to prevent the creation of new noise and safety problems. It is the purpose of this article to 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." CAL.PUB.UTIL.CODE S21670( a). The law defines the powers and duties of ALUC in terms which parallel the commissions' purpose as follows: "To assist local agencies in ensuring compatible land uses in the vicinity of all new airports and in the vicinity of existing airports to the extent that the land in the vicinity of those airports is not already devoted to incompatible uses." CAL.PUB.UTIL.CODE S21674(a). The airport land use compatibility concerns of the JW A AELUP fall under three broad headings: aircraft noise, building height restrictions, and safety. These headings have been further divided into four basic concerns, as follows: aircraft noise, overflight, safety and airspace protection. 75C-192