Public Informational

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• WELCOME!
• Public Informational
• Meeting
• November 12, 2003

Auxiliary Field 1 Joint Land Use Study
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• BACKGROUND

Auxiliary Field 1Joint Land Use Study
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THE ARIZONA MILITARY REGIONAL COMPATIBILITY
PROJECT

• Statewide endeavor airports, installations,
  and the Goldwater Range
• Department of Defense JLUS grant
• Western Maricopa County/Luke AFB was phase
  one, Davis-Monthan AFB, Auxiliary Field 1 and
  others are phase two
• States role as convener to engage all parties
  and cross jurisdictional boundaries

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PRIMARY PROJECT OBJECTIVE
This Project is an undertaking of statewide
impact designed to find resolutions to land use
compatibility and encroachment issues through
collaborative effort and strong implementation.
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WHO IS INVOLVED?

• State of Arizona, Department of Commerce
• Department of Defense, Office of Economic
  Adjustment
• City of Surprise and Maricopa County
• Luke Air Force Base
• Policy Advisory Committee (PAC)
• Stakeholders and Public
• Consultant Team (Parsons)

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56th FIGHTER WING
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AUX 1 OPERATIONS
Mike Hanson, Planner 56FW/CVE Community
Initiatives Team
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56 FWMISSION STATEMENT
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• Train Americas Finest Pilots and
  Maintainers.Deploy Mission Ready Warfighters

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F-16 PILOT PRODUCTION
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• Replenish CAF with over 800 trained F-16 Pilots
  this fiscal year
• Instruments
• Air to Air Tactics
• Air to Ground Operations
• Night Systems Qualifications
• 175 avg. daily student load
• 9 Courses / 40 Tracks
• Basic / Transition / Instructor Use Aux
• 944 FW / Continuation Training

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INSTRUMENT APPROACHES
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• TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation) Non Precision
• Course guidance only no glide path
• ILS (Instrument Landing System) Precision
• Course and glide path
• PAR (Precision Approach Radar) Precision
• Aux-1 has one of just a few PARs in CONUS
• Common recovery method in theater

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AUX-1 APPROACHES
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TRANSITION AIRSPACE
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AUX 1
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• 15 miles NW of Luke AFB activated 1 Jul 1941
• 12,000 operations annually / 27 per OM day

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AUX-1
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AUX-1 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
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ILS APPROACH VIDEO
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AUX-1 ILS
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AUX-1 PAR
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SUMMARY
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• AUX-1 AND ENVIRONS ARE VITAL TO LUKE TRAINING
  MISSION
• FUTURE MISSIONS / AIRCRAFT POSSIBLE
• DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA IS BECOMING A FACTOR
• AUX-1 TRAFFIC CANT BE ABSORBED ELSEWHERE

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• AUXILIARY FIELD 1 JLUS

Auxiliary Field 1Joint Land Use Study
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STUDY AREA
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COMPATIBILITY CRITERIA

• Avoid concentrations of people exposed to
  noise and safety hazards
• Noise Criteria
• Limit exposure of people and noise-sensitive
  activities to high noise levels
• Safety Criteria
• Limit concentrations of people and
  safety- sensitive activities in areas of highest
  probable accident impact

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STUDY DIRECTION / RECOMMENDATIONS

• Surprise General Plan Amendment is basis for
  defining compatible land use around Auxiliary
  Field 1 City is proceeding with review/adoption
  of GP Amendment.
• Luke Air Force Base will proceed with updated
  noise study for future Auxiliary Field 1
  operations.

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STUDY DIRECTION / RECOMMENDATIONS

• Recommend that State law be revised to allow
  counties to manage growth and development in the
  same way as cities.
• Maricopa County to maintain current planned land
  use and zoning around Auxiliary Field 1 until
  annexed by City of Surprise or until County
  Comprehensive Plan and zoning revised to more
  compatible use.

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STUDY DIRECTION / RECOMMENDATIONS

• Provide compatible land uses that will support
  Auxiliary Field 1 with successor aircraft, and
  recognize that mission may change, involving
  takeoffs / landings at the Field.

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STUDY DIRECTION / RECOMMENDATIONS

• Define a Vicinity Box for Auxiliary Field 1,
  and recommend that notification be required
  consistent with provisions for other military
  airports.
• Define APZs at both ends of the Auxiliary Field
  1 runway.

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STUDY DIRECTION / RECOMMENDATIONS

• Recommend that an ongoing body be designated to
  address ongoing land use coordination and
  implementation issues for Auxiliary Field 1
  possibly as a subcommittee of the Luke West
  Valley Council.

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STUDY DIRECTION / RECOMMENDATIONS

• LANTIRN pattern is to be relocated no later
  than December 04 to an unknown location Luke
  Air Force Base LAFB to pursue analysis for
  LANTIRN operations as part of future studies.

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NEXT STEPS

• Develop Implementation Strategies
• Draft JLUS Report
• Final JLUS Report
• Begin Implementation
• Ongoing Coordination

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TO STAY INVOLVED

• Newsletter
• Comments
• Comment Cards
• E-Mail (amarcp.parsons_at_parsons.com)
• Web Site
• www.azcommerce.com/CommunityPlanning/Compatibil
  ity
• Draft JLUS Report

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THANK YOU WE APPRECIATE YOUR PARTICIPATION
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