Sec. 397.003. COMPREHENSIVE DEFENSE INSTALLATION AND COMMUNITY STRATEGIC IMPACT PLAN

(a) A defense community may request financial assistance from the Texas military value revolving loan account to prepare a comprehensive defense installation and community strategic impact plan that states the defense community's long-range goals and development proposals relating to the following purposes:

(1) controlling negative effects of future growth of the defense community on the defense base and minimizing encroachment on military exercises or training activities connected to the base;

(2) enhancing the military value of the defense base while reducing operating costs; and

(3) identifying which, if any, property and services in a region can be shared by the defense base and the defense community.

(b) The comprehensive defense installation and community strategic impact plan should include, if appropriate, maps, diagrams, and text to support its proposals and must include the following elements as they relate to each defense base included in the plan:

(1) a land use element that identifies:

(A) proposed distribution, location, and extent of land uses such as housing, business, industry, agriculture, recreation, public buildings and grounds, and other categories of public and private land uses as those uses may impact the defense base; and

(B) existing and proposed regulations of land uses, including zoning, annexation, or planning regulations as those regulations may impact the defense base;

(2) a transportation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed freeways, streets, and roads and other modes of transportation;

(3) a population growth element that identifies past and anticipated population trends;

(4) a water resources element that:

(A) addresses currently available surface water and groundwater supplies; and

(B) addresses future growth projections and ways in which the water supply needs of the defense community and the defense base can be adequately served by the existing resources, or if such a need is anticipated, plans for securing additional water supplies;

(5) a conservation element that describes methods for conservation, development, and use of natural resources, including land, forests, soils, rivers and other waters, wildlife, and other natural resources;

(6) an open-space area element that includes:

(A) a list of existing open-space land areas;

(B) an analysis of the defense base's forecasted needs for open-space areas to conduct its military training activities; and

(C) suggested strategies under which land on which some level of development has occurred can make a transition to an open-space area, if needed;

(7) a restricted airspace element that creates buffer zones, if needed, between the defense base and the defense community; and

(8) a military training route element that identifies existing routes and proposes plans for additional routes, if needed.

(c) Two or more defense communities near the same defense base may prepare a joint plan.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 9, eff. May 27, 2003.