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Establish a Land Use Military Compatibility Area (MCA) Overlay District within the
Corpus Christi Unified Development Code. The regulations would address compatible
land uses, noise mitigation, lighting hazards, vertical obstructions, and electromagnetic
hazards. This zone could also have County participation in a Joint Airport Zoning Board
that is allowed under Section 241.014 of the Texas State Local Government Code.
Establish a Light Subzone that will apply to new development proposed to be constructed
within the Light Subzone of each airfield. This requirement would subject new
development to regulations that include fully shielded and / or fullǦcutoff light fixtures.
The revised ordinance will incorporate distinctive light and glare regulations to protect
the operational environment within the Lighting Subzone. These controls should be
designed to reduce the amount of light that spills into surrounding areas and impacts
regional ambient illumination. The light subzone would be applied to each of the
airstrips.
Amend the zoning code to include a lighting ordinance that applies to all properties
within the Light Subzone. Corpus Christi should amend and incorporate Lighting
Standards that are easy to follow and comply with by using graphics and within the UDC
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Section 7.6 of the Corpus Christi Unified Development Code (see Appendix A) has the
following restrictions:
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requires light fixtures to be cutoff or full cutoff and directed downward;
restricts heights of fixtures to 15 feet within 50 feet of residential areas; and
limits light trespass to 1 foot-candle “unto the right of way line of adjacent property.
Camp Swift - Camp Swift is a Texas Army National Guard Training Center and has been
approved for a JLUS that will start in 2014. The City of Bastrop, TX, including its JLUS
partners—Bastrop County, the City of Elgin, and the community of McDade, has identified
lighting as an environmental factor in the study. Matrix was selected to develop this JLUS and
will use the experience gained from other JLUSs both in Texas and the U.S. to resolve the alleged
lighting issues in this area.
The City of Bastrop currently acknowledges light pollution as a concern in its
comprehensive plan such that “potential negative land use impacts (noise, odor, pollution,
excessive light, traffic, etc.) should be considered and minimized,” to “improving street
lighting and minimizing light pollution”. F