Next Generation

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• Next Generation
• Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ)
• A New Approach to the AICUZ Program

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Next Generation AICUZ

• Gary Hallmark, AICP Shaw AFB Community Planner
• George R. Auten, Jr., PE ZapataEngineering
• Timothy B. Burkett ZapataEngineering
• Edward H. Henson, AIA ZapataEngineering

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20th Fighter WingFlying in the South Carolina
Midlands

• Construction began in 1941
• F-16 Fighting Falcon
• Largest USAF combat F-16 Wing
• Host to 9th AF and USCENTAF
• Poinsett Electronic Combat Range
• Seven miles south of Shaw
• 12,500 acres
• Air/Ground bombing and gunnery range
• Electronic combat range

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Joint Effort for Shaw AFB andPoinsett Electronic
Combat Range

• US Air Force
• Air Combat Command
• 20th Fighter Wing
• Contract Support
• ZapataEngineering Shaw AFB
• SAIC Poinsett Electronic Combat Range

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Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ)

• Program Objectives
• Promote Compatible Development
• Protect USAF operational compatibility
• 1957 Early USAF work on noise
• 1973 AICUZ established
• Repetitive updates for the last 30 years

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Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ)

• Two major components
• Accident Potential
• Clear Zone (CZ)
• Accident Potential Zone (APZ)
• Noise

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Accident Potential
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Accident Potential
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Noise

• NOISEMAP used to model aircraft noise
• Day-night average sound level, DNL
• Average sound level exposure, dB, over a 24 hour
  period
• 10 dB penalty added for exposure between 10pm
  and 7am
• Contours for 65, 70, 75, 80 DNL calculated
• dB lines are mean values, not definitive boundary
  lines

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Noise Over Time
1994 - white1998 - yellow2001 - orange2004 -
red
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Base - Community Cooperation

• Excellent cooperation with Sumter City/County
• Joint Compatible Land Use Study (JCLUS) completed
  in 1994
• JLUS study for the Electronic Combat Range in
  2002
• Airfield Compatibility Districts. . . . to
  prevent incompatible land uses or the creation of
  flight hazards . . .
• Range Compatibility Districts
• Committee participation
• Communication

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Next Generation AICUZ

• Shaw/Poinsett testbed for new approach
• Robust flying mission
• Minimal encroachment
• Whats new?
• Public friendly document
• Icons, dialogue boxes, graphic illustrations
• Technology Geospatial data
• GIS data availability on zoning and land use
• Application of AICUZ accident potential zones
  and noise contours to geospatial data

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Next Generation AICUZ

• Noise
• CZ/APZ

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Land Use Analysis

• Heart of the Next Generation AICUZ
• Capitalizes on the availability of geospatial
  data
• Compares Air Force land use compatibility
  criteria to local zoning and land use

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Land Use Analysis

• Air Force criteria compared to
• Current municipal zoning
• Current local land use
• Future land use
• For each type, areas were defined
• Compatible
• Conditionally compatible
• Incompatible

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Land Use Analysis Process

• Convert USAF compatibility guidelines to local
  zoning/land use
• USAF guidelines utilize Standard Land Use Coding
  Manual (SLUCM)
• Local zoning/land use differs
• Make compatibility determination
• ID local zoning/land use

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Land Use Analysis Process
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Current Zoning Basemap
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Current Zoning vs. Noise Analysis
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Current Zoning vs. CZ/APZ Analysis
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Future Land Use Basemap
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Future Land Use vs. Noise Analysis
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Future Land Use vs. CZ/APZ Analysis
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GIS Based Land Use

• Analytical and objective
• Comparative
• BRAC
• New mission beddown
• Facility siting

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Applications

• Military aviation
• on-base, off-base
• Civil aviation
• Rail
• Highway
• Tool for site location
• noise, vibration, planning

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Challenges

• Data availability and consistency
• County GIS data
• Does current land use data exist? Depends on who
  you ask
• Types of zoning data (zoning vs. split zoning)
• Regional, not parcel level
• Development of current land use data
• AF vs. County land use/zoning definitions
• Allowed land uses in County zoning ordinances
• e.g. Agricultural Conservation allows
  residential, business, etc.
• Interpretation of AICUZ program itself
• Precise analysis vs. generalized science

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Accomplishments

• Comparative tool for installations
• Analysis outside of fenceline and CZ/APZs
• Potential for on-base land use analysis (housing,
  industrial zones, admin)
• GIS based deliverable easily maintained
• Land analysis easily understood by the public
• Reader-friendly document

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Questions

• ZapataEngineering, PA
• 6302 Fairview Rd Suite 600
• Charlotte, North Carolina
• 704-358-8240
• www.zapeng.com