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Page 4 of 12 <br /> <br />Livermore Airport Protection Area <br />The East Lakes property is located within the Airport Influence Area (AIA) of the Livermore <br />Airport. Proposed development on the property would be reviewed by the Alameda County <br />Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) and is subject to the requirements of the Livermore <br />Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (ALUCP). <br /> <br />As shown on the preferred plan (Attachment 1) and in Figure 1, the northeast corner of the <br />East Lakes site is in the Livermore Airport Protection Area (APA). The APA was established in <br />1993 by the City of Livermore to prevent new noise-sensitive residential uses from <br />encroaching closer to the airport, and was subsequently incorporated as a planning boundary <br />in the ALUCP. <br /> <br /> Figure 1: Livermore Airport Planning Boundaries (as shown in the 2005 Pleasanton <br />General Plan) <br /> <br /> <br />Page 3-1 of the ALUCP states “New residential land use designations, or the intensification of <br />existing residential land uses, are prohibited within the APA.” The applicant’s preferred plan <br />includes residential uses in the APA. For this reason, City staff expects that the ALUC would <br />find the project noncompliant with the ALUCP, based on the language on ALUCP page 3-1. <br /> <br />While the ALUC has the authority to review and determine proposed land use consistency <br />within the APA, the ALUC does not control local land use entitlements for the lands within the <br />Page 327 of 348