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~ a..L..ula - ~~i'Ve planning A comprehensive plan is an expression of a community' s policy and goals with reqani to land use and future development, and serves as a guide for policy implementation. The City of San Marcos has an adcpted Master Plan 19SQ-2000 which has a "Land Use Element" covering the airport area. However, this "Land Use Element" is very general in nature. Bays County, Caldwell County, and the community of Reedville all do not have comprehensive land use plans. The Capitol Area planning Council's plan for urbanization within the planning region is too generalized to function as a detailed guide. Section Four of this Master Plan Update provides a generalized recommended land use plan in order to partially overcome this situation and provide the City with sane developnent guidance, both for future airport development and for annexation. It should be stressed, however, that a plan by itself is of little value in preventing or correcting incompatibility with airport operations, unless some positive means of implementation is established. As previously discussed, zoning is a major tool for implementation, but there are other means available as well. Dlrect <ld..L..1s - Sl:bti.vi&ilWl ~l~ The City of San Marcos has adopted subdivision regulations which govern the process of changing raw, undeveloped land into subdivisions. To be most effective, the regulations must be coordinated with other mechanisms, in particular, the Master Plan 1980-2000 and the zoning ordinance. The City of San Marcos SUbdivision Regul.atioos govern subdivisions not only within the City, tat in its extraterritorial jurisdiction limits. '!be airport, being within the City Limits is subject to the City's Subdivision Regu1atioos. '!he SUbdivision Regulations can be utilized to include exactions, such as avigation easements and noise easements (if found legally permissible) to insure proper sound attenuation measures, height restriction easements, and notification for prospective home buyers of possible noise impacted areas. D:inIct. Ccut....ols - lbi.lifi"'J Codes IJb! City of San Marcos has adopted the Standard Southern Building Code by the Southern BUilding Code Congress International, Inc. The Building Code does not address sound attenuation measures in noise impact zones. Amendments to the code can provide sui table noise attenuation on new construction throughout the City, but sound attenuation for SPeCific site noise exposure areas are not easily 6.4