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PART IV ~ NARRATIVE Justification of Need: At the present time, the City of San Marcos is experiencing rapid increase in demand for facilities at San Marcos Municipal Air¡;x:>rt, and because of the air¡;x:>rt' s role as reliever to Robert Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas, additional land area will be required for aiqx>rt and aviation facilities to develop. '!be land currently being used by Gary Job Corps Center is ideally suited for air¡;x:>rt utilization without major cost to the City or the FAA. '!be Gary Job Corps buildings presently on or wi thin the boundary of the land area requested are, in large measure, in extranely poor condition and are utilized for activities that could be accarm:x'Jateð within other' Job Corp facilities. ~any of the facilities are in poor condition and would require major expenditures to ÌItprove them to normal academic standards; such expenditures could probably be better spent on other facilities within the Gary Job Corps cmplex. Continuing to utilize the land area for these relatively low levels of educational and training activity does not appear to have an acceptable cost -benefit ratio and is not the highest and best use of the land when canpareð to airport needs. Additionally, the land area is adjacent to an existing aircraft parking apron which is an extremely valuable asset. The alternative to conveyance of Gary Job Corps land is for the City to construct new apron and parking facilities at other locations on the airport, and to construct appropriate taxiways and other surface access roadways to the new locations. It ~ld cost many thousands of dollars to duplicate these facilities at another airport location. '!be City is requesting transfer of the area described so that it will be able to develop facili ties as shown in accordance with the 1981 Airport Master Plan Study that was updated in 1986; since the time of the original plans, time increases in based aircraft and numbers of aircraft operations an- ticipated in the Master Plan Study have been surpassed. l-bre than 120 aircraft are naY based at San Marcos Municipal Airport, which canpares with 66 aircraft originally forecast to be based there by the end of 1985. The FAA has recently carpleteð the installation of an instrument landing system (ILS) which gives the airport capability for àll-weather precision approaches during extremely low ceiling and visibility conditions. The instrurrent runway has Meditmt Intensity Runway Lights, a new rotating beacon, and other improvements. A new approach lighting system has also been installed. Runway 12-30, the lLS runway, has been canpletely reconstructed and up-gradeð in load bearing capacity.