The Pinal County JLUS advocates a proactive approach to
encourage increased communication about decisions relating
to land use regulation and airspace operations, AZARNG
activities in Pinal County, conservation, and natural resource
management issues affecting both the community and the
military. This JLUS seeks to avoid land use and airspace
operations conflicts by engaging the military and local
decision-makers in a proactive, collaborative and multi-agency
planning process.
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Encroachment
refers to the
development of
resource uses that
conflict with
others’ needs and
uses and that may
individually or
cumulatively
impact the
military’s ability to
carry out its testing
and training
mission.
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What Is a Joint Land Use Study?
A Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) is a planning tool that is developed through the
collaborative efforts of a set of stakeholders from a defined project area in order to
identify incompatible uses, operations and activities on the land, in the airspace, and on
bodies of water within and adjacent to active military installations. This helps facilitate a
mutual effort to protect and preserve military readiness and defense capabilities while
supporting continued community growth and economic development. The goal is to
develop a set of strategies for mitigating the identified incompatibilities that can be
implemented by the appropriate stakeholders. These stakeholders include local, state,
and federal government officials, tribal government representatives, government and
non‐governmental agencies and organizations, local property and business owners, and
the military. The general public also plays a vital role in the development and review of a
JLUS.
The intent of the JLUS program is to establish working relationships between military
installations and nearby stakeholders and to encourage them to work as a team to
prevent and / or reduce encroachment issues that are associated with current and future
military missions and neighboring community growth. To do this, the JLUS process
culminates in an agreed‐upon set of recommended strategies that can be implemented
by the military and stakeholders to ensure compatible development, improved
communication, and positive relationships between the installations and neighboring
communities, now and into the future.
This JLUS effort was funded through a grant from the Department of Defense (DoD),
Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). As part of the grant funding match, Pinal County
provided 10 percent of the project funding in the form of in‐kind staff time. While the
OEA was the primary source of funding, the content of the JLUS was produced by and for
the local stakeholders. Pinal County served as the managing agency for the project.
Introduction