land-use plan to guard large airspace
be ensured
PALMDALE
- At the urging of Antelope Valley and Kern County leaders, state
officials are preparing a joint land use study aimed at protecting the
airspace used by California military bases, including Edwards Air Force
Base.
The Governor's Office of Planning and Research, in
conjunction with Kern County, is preparing a joint land use plan to
protect the R-2508 airspace, a massive restricted air corridor that
stretches from Edwards along the Sierra Nevada. The airspace is used by
15 military bases and has been dubbed by Antelope Valley leaders as
arguably the most important block of flying territory used by the
Department of Defense.
"This type of study to protect R-2508 is something we have
suggested for some time," said Alis Clausen, who serves on defense
support committees for the Antelope Valley Board of Trade. "We're
delighted to see this."
Covering a wide range of terrain, including Death Valley,
the lowest point in the United States, and Mount Whitney, the highest
point in the continental United States, the area provides a variety of
testing and training opportunities for aircraft and their pilots.
The objective of the study is to protect the military mission while
allowing compatible
ivilian growth in the study areas. The study is aimed at implementing
recommendations to avoid or mitigate incompatible land uses.
The study area includes portions of Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Los
Angeles, Mono, San Bernardino, and Tulare Counties. The study area
includes Edwards, the Army's Fort Irwin in San Bernardino County and
the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, next to Ridgecrest in Kern
County.
A committee of elected leaders from affected communities is
being assembled to oversee the study. On Wednesday, Palmdale selected
Councilman Tom Lackey to be its representative; Lancaster will choose a
representative at the council meeting on Tuesday.
Lackey, who was raised in Boron, a small community just
outside the base's northern border, said he wants to ensure the area's
continued military involvement.
"It's an integral part of the Antelope Valley," Lackey said
of Edwards. "I'd like to be part of the preservation. It has such a
rich history of military involvement."
As an example of how planning can help protect military and
industry interest, Antelope Valley officials point to a
height-restriction map for wind turbines. In that case, the military,
local governments, and the wind energy industry worked together to come
up with a map to show where wind turbines could be built and at what
heights to avoid impacting low-level flight corridors.
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BS Ranch Perspective:
They are going to close the Rialto Airport then the San Bernardino
International Airport might have some delays in opening, the old March
Field will definite have closure or slower time opening then the San
Bernardino Airport. Even though it would be nicer to have the airport
there at San Bernardino, the Ontario International Airport and San
Bernardino are pretty close together. I have always thought that the
Old Military base in Atelanto the one that they have been or have
opened with limited Plans landing there, would be a better
international airport then the one down in San Bernardino, simply
because the two are so close and the propensity for an accident or
worse a terrorist attack on the airport or airplanes there would be
worse or easier with the two airports being so close.
BS Ranch
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