RC-3 Significant Traffic during Temporary Base Gate Closures
Temporary gate closures due to weather, on base training, or security events, create traffic congestion on White Avenue and Irish Hill Drive.
RC-2A Comm
MCAOD
Enhance Communication for Mitigating Local Transportation
Enhance communication of developing extenuating conditions or situations between Keesler
AFB and City of Biloxi can assist in quickly mitigating impacts to local traffic.
Strategy
Geographic
Issue /
Strategy
ID #
Short
Term
SAFETY ZONES
SA-1 Incompatible Uses in Clear Zones and Accident Potential Zones
Incompatible land uses in the Clear Zones and Accident Potential Zones create a safety concern. SA-1A Zon Safety
MCA Land Use Controls in Safety Zones
The cities of Biloxi and D’Iberville should review current land use controls within Keesler AFB
Military Compatibility Areas (Figures 13 through 17 of this Chapter); conduct land use
regulatory workshops using planning case studies, practices and strategies used to resolve
conflicts between Military Compatibility Areas and potential development; and develop
revisions to the land use regulations including a Safety Overlay District to address land use
compatibility in the CZs and APZs. Short
Term
SA-1B Prog Safety
MCA Acquire Conservation Easements to Secure Buffer in Keesler AFB Airfield Safety Zones
Participate in the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) program and other
buffering and conservation programs to purchase restrictive use easements, fee simple
acquisition, or fee title to lands that present threat of encroachment and impact to military
operations. The Air Force should identify potential REPI and other conservation partners, land
that meets the REPI criteria, and identify willing sellers.
Other Partners: Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation, Land Trust for the Mississippi
Coastal Plain, Mississippi Land Trust, willing landowners, Mississippi Department of
Environmental Quality, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Long
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