Air Quality and Land Use Handbook
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ARB's "Air Quality and Land Use Handbook: A Community Health Perspective"
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As part of the Air Resources Board's (ARB) Community Health Program, the ARB has developed an Air Quality and Land Use Handbook (Handbook) which is intended to serve as a general reference guide for evaluating and reducing air pollution impacts associated with new projects that go through the land use decision-making process. The ARB is also developing related information and technical evaluation tools for addressing cumulative air pollution impacts in a community. These tools will be available through the ARB’s Internet site or in the form of future supplements. Any recommendations or considerations contained in the Handbook are voluntary and do not constitute a requirement or mandate for either land use agencies or local air districts. For more information regarding the Handbook, please contact Dr. Linda Murchison, Division Chief of ARB’s Planning and Technical Support Division, at (916) 322-5350. You may also contact Mr. Jeff Weir at (916) 445-0098, or jweir@arb.ca.gov The ARB's "Air Quality and Land Use Handbook: A Community Health Perspective" is now available here: |
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The Draft Handbook that was presented to the Air Resources Board at the April 28th 2005 Board Meeting is available here:
"Proposed Air Quality and
Land Use Handbook:
A Community Health Perspective." (March 29, 2005) (600k-PDF)
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of Public Availability
March 4th, 2005 - Meeting on ARB's Draft "Proposed Air Quality and Land Use Handbook: A Community Health Perspective"
The
staff of the Air Resources Board (ARB) held a meeting on the Handbook.
The purpose
of this meeting was to discuss the latest draft of the Handbook dated
February 17, 2005. Invited participants included
local land use planners and local government officials, community and
environmental leaders, business representatives,
air pollution control agency representatives, and other interested
parties. In response to comments received at the October 4, 2004 meeting,
Section 4 of the May 10, 2004 draft Handbook,
regarding the siting of new sensitive land uses, has been expanded and
moved to Section 1 of the revised document.
The revised section provides more information on health protective
distances between polluting facilities or roadways
and sensitive receptors. A major objective of these revisions was to
provide siting information that was easier
to use in land-use decision making. Minor revisions were also made to
other parts of the Handbook.
"Proposed Air
Quality and Land Use Handbook" (2-05) (1,081k-doc) (574k-PDF)
Meeting Notice - Presentation (ppt)(pdf)
References
cited in the Handbook:
ATCM
to Limit Idling - Idling
Information, TRU
ATCM - TRU
Information, SCAQMD
CEQA Analysis, SCAQMD
Mira Loma PM10 Study, Roseville
Railyard Study,
Port
of Los Angeles, Port
of Long Beach -
Baseline Inventory, Review
of Air Monitoring Activities Related to Refineries -
Refinery Information, Crockett
Air Quality Study,
Wilmington
Air Quality Study, Thermal
Spraying ATCM, Barrio
Logan Chrome Study, Chrome
Plating ATCM, Neighborhood
Scale Monitoring in Barrio Logan,
SCAQMD
Perc Rule, ARB
Perc ATCM, CAPCOA
Gasoline Service Station Risk Assessment Guidelines, Staff
Report on Enhanced Vaport Recovery,
ARB
Almanac of Emissions and Air Quality, Tech
Review of Enhanced Vapor Recovery, Linkage
Report, ARB's
Clearinghouse of Mitigation Measures,
ARB's
ASPEN Risk Maps, CHAPIS
Draft Air
Quality and Land Use Handbook (5-04)
Announcement -
Agenda -
Summary of Meeting
Presentations:
Cindy
Tuck - CCEEB (pdf - 62k), Detrich
Allen - Siting (ppt - 429k)
(pdf - 82k), Paula
Forbis - Environmental Health Coalition (ppt - 4,118)
(pdf - 960k)
Paula
Forbis - Fact Sheet (doc - 123k) (print, on legal-sized paper), Stuart
Rupp - NUMMI(ppt - 5,074k)
(pdf - 84k), Penny
Newman - Mira Loma Case Study (ppt - 2,077)
(pdf - 1,550k),
Ken
Farfsing - Local Government Perpspective (ppt - 101k)
(pdf - 16k), David
Goldstein - Smart Growth - NRDC (ppt - 1,242k)
(pdf - 97k), Tim
Piasky - Building Industry (ppt - 83k)
(pdf - 70k),
Joe
Lyou - Buffers (pdf - 244k)
October 2004 Study Session Questions:
- Under what conditions is it important to separate sensitive receptors from potential sources of air pollutants?
- What are the various ways for achieving the “separation”?
- Assuming their potential value, what should be the basis for establishing buffer zones?
- How could you integrate various existing land use objectives (such as mixed use, affordable housing, brownfields redevelopment, PODs and TODs, etc.) with buffers?
For questions, please contact Jeff Weir (916) 445-0098.