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About Economic Impacts Beale AFB Unexploded Ordinance Water Traffic Register

 
 

Development Proximity

Actual Noise Countours

Hypothetical Noise

Beale covers 23,000 acres. The runway is on the west side of
the base 4.5 miles from Yuba Highlands’ nearest housing.

The River Highlands Community Plan was approved in December of 1993 providing zoning for approximately 7,500 homes. Since that approval Beale AFB has survived two BRAC rounds with perfect encroachment scores. Few people realize the Headquarters Air Force yardstick for encroachment in both the 1995 and 2005 BRAC included not only existing residential properties but
zoned homesites as well. The zoning for Yuba Highlands was recorded prior to both BRACs and was considered in the analysis prepared by the Air Force for the 1995 and 2005 BRAC commissions. Thus it is a fact that two separate Air Force studies and two BRAC commissions concluded that Beale AFB is not encroached by Yuba Highlands.

Yuba Highlands offers Beale additional housing for its military personnel, retired service members, civilian employees and employees of contractors working on the base.


Yuba Highlands proposes a number of measures funded by the developer to provide additional security to Beale. These include:


Construction of an additional security fence to protect Pave Paws.

A conservation easement along the
border between the two properties.

Construction of a berm to reduce
sound from Beale’s firing range.