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File #: 25-398    Version: 1
Type: Public Hearing Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 2/27/2025 In control: Airport Land Use Commission
On agenda: 5/7/2025 Final action:
Title: Countywide Airport Land Use Compatibility Review and Consistency Determination for City of American Canyon 2040 General Plan Update as required pursuant to the State Aeronautic Act, Public Utilities Code (PUC) Section 21676. The City of American Canyon has included necessary changes to ensure the updated General Plan is consistent with the recently adopted 2024 Napa County ALUCP. Staff recommends that the Commission find the project consistent with the Countywide Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan.
Sponsors: Airport Land Use Commission
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Application Submittal Materials, 2. Attachment B - Draft Comprehensive American Canyon 2040 General Plan Update, 3. Attachment C - CEQA Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations, 4. Attachment D - March 27 2025 Planning Commission Staff Report, 5. Attachment E - New Municipal Code Chapter 19.55 Airport Land Use Compatibility, 6. Item 7A - ALUC Correction Memorandum(added after initial agenda posting).pdf, 7. Item 7A-Countywide ALUCPConsistency Determination for City of AmCyn(added after meeting).pdf
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TO: Airport Land Use Commission
FROM: Dana Morrison, ALUC Executive Officer
REPORT BY: Wendy Atkins, ALUC Staff Liaison
SUBJECT: Countywide Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan Consistency Determination for the City of American Canyon 2040 General Plan Update # P25-00114


RECOMMENDATION
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Countywide Airport Land Use Compatibility Review and Consistency Determination for City of American Canyon 2040 General Plan Update as required pursuant to the State Aeronautic Act, Public Utilities Code (PUC) Section 21676. The City of American Canyon has included necessary changes to ensure the updated General Plan is consistent with the recently adopted 2024 Napa County ALUCP.

Staff recommends that the Commission find the project consistent with the Countywide Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The proposed project consists of an update to the City's General Plan which will serve as a long-term framework for future growth and development. The General Plan represents the community's view of its future and contains the goals and policies upon which the City Council, Planning Commission, staff, and the entire community will base land use and resource decisions. Major components of the American Canyon General Plan Update will include the following: Land Use, Circulation, Community Services, Open Space and Recreation, Conservation, Safety, Noise, and Housing.
The City of American Canyon has included the 2024 Napa County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan as a standalone document incorporated into the General Plan. The "project" currently before the ALUC is technically an evaluation of the entire Plan. The action before the ALUC is to determine whether the City's General Plan is consistent with the newly adopted ALUCP. Given the large volume of material contained within this document, ALUC Staff have focused this report on only those areas that relate to airport compatibility, and most notably, the currently proposed set of general plan changes s...

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