Res 1986 - 61 Joint Resolution to Requre Parallel Runway Operations Consistent with the Eagan-Mendota Heights CorridorRESOLUTION
CITIES OF EAGAN AND MENDOTA HEIGHTS
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
NO. g4 -6 -1-
JOINT RESOLUTION TO REQUIRE
PARALLEL RUNWAY OPERATIONS CONSISTENT WITH
THE EAGAN-MENDOTA HEIGHTS CORRIDOR
WHEREAS, a concerted effort is being made to maximize operations
southeast of the airport to reduce the noise impact on more densely populated
communities also adjacent to the airport; and
WHEREAS, the Cities of Eagan and Mendota Heights have provided a
corridor of land uses along their mutual boundary which is largely compatible
with overflights by turbojet aircraft operating at the Minneapolis -St. Paul
International Airport; and
WHEREAS, the Eagan -Mendota Heights Corridor provides an adequate
area of compatible land uses for operations, even when diverging separation is
in use; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) has expressed a
commitment to the maintenance of the corridor as a part of its historical and
long-term noise abatement strategy; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has repeatedly
stressed the need for noise compatible land -uses as a means of accommodating
operational noise generation; and
WHEREAS, the Cities of Eagan and Mendota Heights are required by the
Metropolitan Council to plan and execute their comprehensive land development
on the basis of the noise zones developed in 1981 and contained within the
Aviation Chapter of the Metropolitan Development Guide (see Attachment I),
said zones having been prepared by the Minnesota Department of Transportation
using operational assumptions, projections and presentations provided by the
FAA and the MAC; and
WHEREAS, the corridor defined by those noise zones was created and
is maintained to accommodate the disproportionate amount of turbojet traffic
operating southeast of the airport under the Preferential Runway System (PRS);
and
WHEREAS, the Cities of Eagan and Mendota Heights have supported the
PRS as a means of providing noise relief for the rest of the airport's
neighbors and consider compliance with the corridor to be a means of enhancing
the viability of the PRS and in no way intend to restrict or impair the
capacity of parallel departures on 11L and 11R; and
WHEREAS, there has occurred in recent years a progressive and
intolerable pattern of deviations from the operational headings on which the
corridor was based, under operational and weather conditions for which their
use was prescribed, severely impacting the residential neighborhoods which
were to be protected by the development of the corridor and the accomodations
of the PRS and its noise abatement measures; and
WHEREAS, changes in operations have a broad impact on the planning
assumptions of the regional system and should not be undertaken without first
assessing such impact in concert with the council of the affected communities
and the Metropolitan Council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Cities of Eagan and Mendota
Heights that the Metropolitan Airports Commission, Metropolitan Aircraft Sound
Abatement Council, Federal Aviation Administration, and Air Transport
Association be required to maintain all arriving and departing aircraft on
Runways 11L and 11R on compass headings consistant with the ground tracks used
to formulate the noise zone planning contours of the Aviation Chapter of the
Metropolitan Development Guide developed in 1981 (Attachment I) and cease all
deviations from such headings under VFR conditions except as necessary for
reasons of safety; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Cities hereby request that the
Metropolitan Airports Commission and Federal Aviation Administration provide
written notice to the respective Cities' and the Metropolitan Council whenever
operational changes of a permanent or extended duration are under
consideration that would act to shift operations to flight tracks that alter
the noise zone boundaries on which the communities' land uses are based.
CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF EAGAN
By: AP/I
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Attest : 0 Attest:
Its erk I s Clerk
Date: " 6 • CO Date:
,CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
BY: A4t
Its Mayor
MOTION MADE BY: Councilmember Egan
SECONDED BY: Mayor Blomquist
THOSE IN FAVOR: A11
THOSE OPPOSED: None
MOTION MADE BY: Councilmember Blesener
SECONDED BY: Councilmember Hartmann
THOSE IN FAVOR: ALL
THOSE OPPOSED: NONE
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