Sec. 397.003. COMPREHENSIVE DEFENSE COMMUNITY STRATEGIC IMPACT PLAN. (a) A defense community may request financial assistance from the Texas military value revolving loan account to prepare a comprehensive defense community strategic impact plan that states the defense community's long-range goals and development proposals relating to the following purposes:

(1) controlling negative effects of future growth of the defense community on the military base or defense facility and minimizing encroachment on military exercises or training activities connected to the military base or defense facility;

(2) enhancing the military or defense value of the military base or defense facility while reducing operating costs; and

(3) identifying which, if any, property and services in a region can be shared by the military base or defense facility and the defense community.

(b) The comprehensive defense community strategic impact plan should include, if appropriate, maps, diagrams, and text to support its proposals and must include the following elements as they relate to each military base or defense facility included in the plan:

(1) a land use element that identifies:

(A) proposed distribution, location, and extent of land uses such as housing, business, industry, agriculture, recreation, public buildings and grounds, and other categories of public and private land uses as those uses may impact the base or facility; and

(B) existing and proposed regulations of land uses, including zoning, annexation, or planning regulations as those regulations may impact the base or facility;

(2) a transportation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed freeways, streets, and roads and other modes of transportation;

(3) a population growth element that identifies past and anticipated population trends;

(4) a water resources element that:

(A) addresses currently available surface water and groundwater supplies; and

(B) addresses future growth projections and ways in which the water supply needs of the defense community and the base or facility can be adequately served by the existing resources, or if such a need is anticipated, plans for securing additional water supplies;

(5) a conservation element that describes methods for conservation, development, and use of natural resources, including land, forests, soils, rivers and other waters, wildlife, and other natural resources;

(6) an open-space area element that includes:

(A) a list of existing open-space land areas;

(B) an analysis of the base's or facility's forecasted needs for open-space areas to conduct its military training activities; and

(C) suggested strategies under which land on which some level of development has occurred can make a transition to an open-space area, if needed;

(7) a restricted airspace element that creates buffer zones, if needed, between the base or facility and the defense community; and

(8) a military training route element that identifies existing routes and proposes plans for additional routes, if needed.

(c) Two or more defense communities near the same military base or defense facility may prepare a joint plan.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 9, eff. May 27, 2003.

Amended by:

Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 777 (S.B. 1200), Sec. 17, eff. September 1, 2013.