GUIDELINES FOR CONSIDERING NOISE IN LAND USE PLANNING AND CONTROL

Noise has become a recognized factor in the community planning process. Some significant advancements are being made in reduction of noise at its source. Although noise cannot be eliminated entirely, local, state and federal agencies have developed guidelines to deal with noise in the community land use process. A number of federal agencies have published policies and/or guidance on noise and land use. These groups have done this for several reasons--public law mandates, basis of grant approvals, and integrated consideration of noise in overall planning and coordination. Because the purposes and uses of these policy and guidance packages are often different, they can appear inconsistent. This document puts the various federal agency policy and guidance packages into perspective. Although not replacing individual federal agency material, the Guidelines can serve as the departure point for dealing with each agency's programs and facilitate consideration of noise in all land use planning and interagency/intergovernmental coordination processes. Several federal programs include noise standards as part of their eligibility and performance criteria, the primary responsibility for integrating noise considerations rests with local government which generally has exclusive control over actual land development. Noise considerations in land use planning is not to prevent development but to encourage development compatible with various noise levels. Section 1 presents consolidated federal agency land use compatibility guidelines. Section 2 overviews techniques by which guidelines can be implemented. Section 3 overviews the major federal agency noise control policies and programs. Appendices contain brief descriptions of environmental noise descriptors and annotated bibliographies of selected federal documents.

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Interagency committee on Urban Noise

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Publication Date: 1980-6

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 51 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coordination; Federal government; Guidelines; Interagency relations; Land use; Local government; Noise control; Policy; Sound level
• Uncontrolled Terms: Noise reduction
• Old TRIS Terms: Government policies
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390690
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM