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1995-08-09 ARC Packet1. 2. 3. 4. 5. CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA AIRPORT RELATIONS COMMISSION AGENDA AUGUST 9, 1995 Call to Order Roll Call Approval of July 12, '1995 Meeting Minutes. ; I Presentation/Discussion: � a. Dakota County Perspective on Airport Related Issues - Invited Guests � District 3 Dakota County Commissioner Patrice Bataglia, and Transportation Planner John Tocho. i Acknowledge Receipt of Various Reports/Correspondence: , a. MASAC General Meeting Minutes and Technical Advisors Report for May, 1995. I b. MASAC General Meeting Minutes for June, 1995. c. Northern Dakota County Airport Relations Commission Minutes for June, 1995. 'i d. Draft Northern Dakota County Airport Relations Commission Minutes for July, 1995. � e. Richfield Part 150 Buy-Out Update for July, 1995. t f. NOISE Newsletter for July, 1995. � g. Stop the Noise! and National Helicopter Noise Coalition Newsletter for June, 1995. j h. Various Newspaper Articles Related to Airport Issues. 6. Unfinished and New Business: a. Discuss Letter Received From Northwest Airlines Regarding Noise Abatement Departure Profiles and NDCARC Draft Letter of Response. b. Discuss Draft MSP Environs Community Protection Concept Package. 7. Verbal Updates: a. Northwest Airlines 747 Jet Fuel Release Over Eagan. 8. Other Comments or Concerns. 9. Adjourn. Auxiliary aids for disabled persons are available upon request at least 120 hours in advance. If a notice of less than 120 hours is received, the City of Mendota Heights will make every attempt to provide the aids, however, this may not be possible on short notice. Please contact City Administration at 452-1850 with requests. s ,� a 2 , i t � I';/j .+,� . ♦ � ! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. AGENDA METROPt�LITAN AiRCRAFT SOUtVD ABATEMENT COUNCIL General Meetin� - JUNE 2?, 1995 7:30 �.m. ta 9:15 n.m. 6Q�t0 2$th Aveaue South Minneapotis, Minnesota Cal( to Order, Roll Cal! � A�proval of Minutes of Meeting May 23, 1995 I Introduction af Invited Guests � Receipt of Communications Upolte; Operations Committcc Mceting June 7, 1995 ', Upd�ttc: GPS e.' _`Y� jY?%.�'' — r r; ,�C'_ -- �{� �,�, � � � I Technieul Advisor's Run�vay System Utilizaition Repori arirci Complaint Summary Persons Wishing to Address the Counei! , � Report af MAC Commission meeting . Other Items Nat on the Agenda i Adjournment � Next Meeting: July� 25, I995 NOTE: Qnly designated MASAC representatives seated at the table will be allowed to vote. 1. MINUTES METROPOLITAN AIRCRAFT SOUND ABATEMENT COUNCIL ' GENERAL MEETING MAY 23, 1995 7:30 p.m. 6040 28th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota Call to Order Roll Call The meeting �vas catled to order by Chainnan Bob Johnson at 7:30 p.ui. and the secretary was asked to call the roll. The follo�ving members �vere in attendance: Jennifer Sayre Brian Bates Bob Johnson Dick Keinz Gordon Wagner Scott Bunin Carol McGuire Craig Wruck Thomas Hueg Don Priebe Janiie Verbrugge John Nelson Ann Lencze��ski Petrona Lee Mayor Tom Egan Mike Schlax Jon Hohenstein Juan Rivas Dale Hammons Manny Camilon Dan Licht Advisors Denis Cornell Cindy Greene Ron Glaub Steve Cramer John Foggia Traci Erickson Northwest . Airborne • MBAA MAC Minneapolis St. Paul St. Paul St. Paul St. Paul Richfield . Richfield , Blooruington Bloomington Bloomington , Eagan Eagan Eagan � Burnsville Inver Grove Heights St. Louis Park ' Sunfish Lake-Associate Public Member 1 FAA FAA FAA MAC Commissioner Technical Advisor MAC ANOMS Specialist Guests Jon Larsen Bob Mayer Mike Jordan Bob Patton 2. Ap,proval of Minutes EQB Eanan Eagan Eagan The minutes of tl�e Aprii 25, 1995, meeting �vere approved as presented. 3. Introduction of Invited Guests Receiet of Communication 4. No invited guests. No communications received. John Foggia introduced ne�v MAC staff inember, Doug Palbicki, Noise Monitoririg Specialist. � � i Operations Comiuittee Undate � The n�inutes of the May 12, 1995, Operations Conimittee were distributed and reviewed by John Foggia. The committee agreed to deal �vitl� the nighttime noise issues in the follo�ving order: (1) Nighttime SID, (2) 4/22 Nighttime Use, (3) RUS Practices, (4) Shoulder Hours. IThe committee passed a motion to include the following verbiage when the � New Noise Management Metl�odology (NNMM) presentation is made to the P&E Committee: "MAC desires significantly better compliance levels than those indicated in the above tabie (Stage 2 Nighttiuie Voluntary Agreement - Operations 4th Quarter 1994 F�eport). One �vay to achieve greater compliance is to extend tlie Vo(untary Nighttime Agreement to all carriers operating at MSP at night". Mr. Foggia infornied the Council that the Stage 2 nighttime restrictions similar to the voluntary nighttime restrictions already in place will be incorporated into the NNMM. Therefore, the nighttime restrictions will not be looked at separately and will be removed from the Operations Committee agenda. The Operations Committee detennined seven steps to re-evaluate and analyze the Nighttime SID (as outlined in the minutes). The next meeting is scheduled for 6-7-95. j I A question/ans�ver session follo�ved. � � Voluntarv Nighttime Restrictions � . � i Mr. Foggia reported the quarterly activity results of Stage 2 Voluntary Nighttime Agreements for the 2nd Quarter 1993, and 4th Quarter of 1994. During 2nd Quarter 1993 � out of 943 nighttime operations, 447 �vere Stage 3, and 496 were Stage 2 operations for a total of 53% Stage 2 nighttirue operations. Before the nighttime agreements were in effect: the figure was 2 G4% Stage 2. Additionally, NWA does not have any operations scheduled between 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. By 4th Quarter 1994: 843 nighttime aperations, 690 r�vere Stage 3, and 153 were Stage 2 operations for a total of Ii% Stage 2 nighttin�e operations. This zmprovement represents the effect of the Valuntary Nighttime Agreen�ents. _ The carriers have made a gaod-fAith effort to continually improve. Nighttime operations have decreased and tlie percentage of Stage 3 aircraft operations has inereased. Noise restriction Eanguage similar to thafi included in the Nighttime Votuntary Agreement is included in the New Noise Management MetlYodology (NNMM), and a Sun Country Lease Agreement. Latest statistics from 1he HHH terminal shotiv a decrease in late niglit flights from 136 in 1994, to $3 in lst quarter 1995. 6. Technicai Advisor`s Runivav Svstem Utilizatiart Report and Complaint Sumrnarv The Technical Advisar's Report was distributed far April i995, and reviewed by John Foggia. Points of interest include: Stage 3'is 43.5°l0 - upward trend is headed in the right direotion, with Stage 3 increasing. Pages 6,7,11, sliow effective use of the crosswind runway at night. T�va new formats for the manthly noise complaint map were distributed to all members for comparison purpases. Mr. Foggia asked the council for their input and decision on preference for monthly reparting. Or%ginal Grid Ma� - Historically MASAC has reported noise complaints by depicting colored squares on a grid, �vith grid color a function of nuniber of calls �vitiiin that grid. If one resident calls �q times, tl�e 2000 foot by 200Q foot grid is colored red. � Dot Map - Indicates number of residences registering noise complaints. Each dot represents a singie resident that ca!!ed in a con�plaint. � A lengthy discussion koak place. Ann Lencze�vski, Bloomin�ton. moved. and Scott Bunin, St. Paultseconded. ta continue usin� the Grid Man as tiie.monthlv reportinQ tool. A vote was taken and carried unanimatislv, Don Priebe, Richfield, commented that the FAA To�ver needs ro increase the use of Run�vay 4/22, and they,. need ta be reminded of tlie RUS requireu�ents. 3ohn Neison, Bloamington, re�rmed Priebe's statement that maximum use of the cross run�vay is not occurring. The RUS is not being maximized and this needs ta be �vorked an. 3oi�n Foggia resgonded that use of 4/22 will be further discussed by the Operations Committee. 7. Persons Wishin� Ta Address the Councit Mil:e Jordan, Eagan {Ha�vtharne Waods} reiterated noise compiaints of tolu-flying aircraft and frequency of flights. He requested a response from the council an (1) extensian of the Eagan/ Mendota Heigl�ts Carridor beyond 3 miles, and (2} possibility af aircraft ascending at a more ! i rapid rate. Jahn Fogg'ra respa�ided by explaining and reviewing the history of the Corridor wh'scli tias been tiiorouglily anatyzed. Otlier problems wouId inctude apening 'new naise impact areas in Inver Grove Heights; there is no area remaining to extend the Corrid' r beyond three niiles withaut opposition fram residents furcl�er out; and litigation is a ina�or concern. Mr. Faggia conveyed tliat furtlier review af a Corridor extension or otlier changes may be considered at a later tiine. � Mr. Foggia retayed tliat tlie 4perations Couzmittee will be doing comparative anatysis of both procedures of the Noise Abaternent Departure Profiles (NAPDs), distant and cIase-in. Staff will be tivarking ��vith HNTB, FAA, NWA and ALPA. ANOMS �vitt a}so be used ta analyze the pro�les. Tliis is still an apen iteni and �vil1 be revie�ved by the Operations Committee and then presentecF ta MASAC. ;I i Chairnnan Johnson tivill tai:e under cansideratian a request to teiuporarily place a noise monitor in tlie Hawthorne Waods area. Staff tivill fonvard any anatysis infornlation tiane in the Ha�vtl�orne Woods comuiunity to MASAC, ,' Bab Fatton, Eagan, is ��orking witli tbe Ciiy afEagan to assist in solving noiselprablems in that community. Mr. Patton said there tvere more complaints in Eagan than in Minneapolis. The frequency of fligl�ts is not tolerable. Ttie �veekands of Apri! 29 a.hd May 6 had 200 flights overhead per day. He alsa co��iplairted of landings being tao io�v and that they �vere just as loud as departures. ' � ; i Repart of the MAC Commission Meetin� ; i Scatt Bunin reported three ite�us applicable to MASAC. (1) A speciai Commission meeting was held on the Part 150 Sound Insulation Program contractor price-fixing, (2�) update on extension of Run�vay 4/22 • ttiere are negotiations on-going behveen the �conimunities sunounding the airport, the MAC and Metrapolitan Council. The City of Bloo�n�in�tan �vilI rrot be entering tt�e larvsuit �led by the City of Richfield. (3) update on the Dual Track Pracess - six inforn�ation sessions ��rill be held for MAC Cornm'sssioners. Tl��e sessions are open to the generai pubtic, �vhase input �vsll be used as a resource by the comri►ission. � !� 9. C?ther Items Not on ti�e A�enda None. 1Q. Adjournment Chainnan 3ollnson adjourned the meeting at 9:16 p.m. Respectfully submitted: Jean I?eighton, Secretary UPCOMING MEETTNG DATES Full Commission 3uly 17, 1995 June 27, 199� 1:OQ p.ni.- Raom 303 Planning & Environment Committee July 5, 1995 10:00 p.m. - Raom 30i MASAC July 25, I995 7:30 p.m. f � MINUTES !I MASAC OPERATIONS COMMITTEE I' JUNE 7, 1995 i The meeting was heid at the Metropolitan Airpo�ts Commission General Office Bo� called to order at 1:35 p.m. The foilowing members were in attendance: ; Mark Salmen, NWA - Chairman Bob Johnson - MBAA _ Jim Serrin - Minneapolis Tom Hueg, St. Paul John Nelson, Bloomington Dick Keinz, MAC Tom Lawell, Mendota Heights Jon Hohenstein, Eagan Advisonr: John Foggia - Technical P�,dvisor Ron Glaub - FAA Denis Cornell - FAA AGENDA NIGHTTIME RUNWAY 22 SID , ! John Foggia distributed and reviewed a Nighttime Runway 22 SID repo�t package history in � chronological order, past recommended actions, and recent analysis.' package is attached to these minutes for your reference. : � A summary of the B-727 and MD-80 SID simulator data was reported as followed: i � • Indicates idealized proposed SID is safe. ! • Indicates idealized proposed SID is feasible. � � • Simulator data is valid for B-727 and MD-80 only. ' • Simulator data does not reflect the actual traffic mix. The main concern of the FAA is that the test did not reflect actual MSP traffic mix. � is delay related to in-trail departures. . , . . . , 22 SID HISTORY A memorandum dated 9-27-91 to the Operations Committee listed six points � unanimously by the group. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) recommer 1 and �mprised of The report The concern :a upon weather minimums limiting use of the SID during high patential bird strike conditions. !t was noted that more bird strikes occur during day VFR conditions than at night. The 22 SID procedure wauld be used only at night. . John reiterated the approvai process of a new pracedure: Operations Committee, MASAC full body, MAC Planning & Environment, MAC Full Cammission, MAC praposes procedure ta FAA, FAA undertakes environmental review, FAA approves procedures, and implements using 56-day charting cycls to publish the procedure. - At the Qperations Committee meeting 1-24-92, discussion covered "Factors to be considered in implementation af a Runway 22 SID". Operafions Cansideratians First Turn Paint Secand Tum Heading Capacity Impact - Current Capaci#y Impact - Fu#ure Visibility Minimums Environmental Considerations Noise lmpacts Minnesoia River Valiey National�IVildlife Refuge In the rrteeting summary for the �peratians Cammittee meeting 1-24-92, the follawing 22 SID procedure was unanimously approved: As soon as practical after departure, turn left to a 980' (M) headrng. At 3 DME frorrt fhe MSP VORTAC, fum right fo a 245' {M) heading, ff?8t?C� V£C�OFS OI? COUlS�. Included in the package is the actual FAA Tower Notice (MSP ATCT T110.42) for the two alternatives that were tested by tower persannel and participating aircraft. Appendix 1 shows the two al#ernatives. On 5-12-92, HNTB prepared a propoasf to proceed with an EA (environmental assessment) for the proposed Runway 22 SID in accordance with DOT and FAA. �, � The map distributed shows the position of the MSP VORTAC. All aircraft tested (a variety participated) were able #a make #he ini#ial ium to a 180° well inside the aiepoct fence line. An example of att implemen#ed SIO was included: •"Quie# 4ne Depar#ure" for San Francisca International. DiSCUSSION Considering land uses beneath the proposed Nighttime SID, the best end paint far the procedure would be at 6.5 miles. East af lnterstate 35, the Minnesota River Valley is broad and apen. Ron Glaub, FAA Safety Inspector, expressed cancerns on the SID instruction verbiage "turning as soon as possible". Each car�ier has specifc deparfure procedures, and individual pilat will vary. John �oggia responded that all technical aspects of the SID will be fine-tuned. With the help of 2 i ANOMS, gates can be established to count planes, altitudes, and perforrnance relative ta the proposed S1D. '� I Several cammittee members camrnented that the end product af #he 22 S!D shaulrf naf be tao detailed or compiicated. Tatal nighttime operations invalve only approximately 25 �flights. i An EA will most likely be required far a new nighttime SID procedure. The 51D is a procedure, not a praject - therefore, would not cequice an EIS. The nightime SID wii! improve the �noise impact problem. HNTB wiil campiete the work for MAC and FAA, They wiil use already completed data. ARTS data has been coilected - 24 pianes participated. Simulator data an the 727 and MD80 wili aiso be utiiized. � ( I John Nelsan, 8laomington, communica#ed that when aircraft are directed to fhe southwesi for departure using the SID, it wpuld be preferable if the aircraft departed no�theast of the intersection of Runway 4122 and 'i1U29R. Mr. Nelsan also said fhat we should get even greater use of Runway 22 with the nighttime SID. •!� • John Foggia relayed that the operational use of the e�ended Runway 4/22 is not gomg to increase the amount o# traffic which accurs at night. It will simply adclress the exisii�g traftic 6;y decoupling the north parallel from the crosswind runway. The in#ended use is in conjunction with the parallel runways, when able. ' � i Chairman Salmen asked for agreement from the committee today on the parameters of the SID in order to praceed. John Foggia exp(ained the following: 1I 240 degree (M) Neading Keeps naise impacfs 'rn the middle af the Minnesota Ri� er Vailey i 3.5 DME Initial tum Provides greater use of the less papulated soufh side of the river bottom � � 6.5 mile End Point Releases airc�aft to en route environment at a reasonable point. Staff wikf further check end points of 6,0r 6.5, and 7.{�. !I � Aircraft should not fly any further west ihan mandatory in order ta protect the community of Savage fram naise impact. ' ,� Jahn Nelson relayed that Bloomington wants the 3.5 DME because it takes aircraft further sauth, and the 24Q degree (M) heading puts aicraft more solidly over the river valley. i i The cammittee aqreed to proceed with the followinq: ; (1) Staff will complete wind and weather analysis of nighttime hours, and investigate typical altitude grofiles. Staff wii! use ANQMS to further anaiyze SID end pornfs af 6,0, 6.5, and 7.0 mi(es out. � ; (2} Determination wiil be made on fhe number of fligh#s io be impacted. • I (3} Air L.ine Pilof Assaciatian {ALPA} involvement is needed in arder to address their cancerns. John Foggia will contact Chuck Curry ta discuss, and will request written response. 3 (4) 26 point environmental checklist will be obtained from the FAA. A conference telephone call will be made between staff, the FAA and HNTB to discuss the list content. (5) A study of aircraft destination will be looked at by Roy Fuhrmann. � (6) Staff will prep HNTB on the Nighttime Runway 22 SID at a meeting 6-8-95. (7) When the parameters of the 22 SID are finalized and have gone through the approval process, NWA will undertake a Pertormance Analysis under full-load conditions. (8) With the coordination of staff, HNTB, and the FAA, the Operations Committee will approve and forward a statement of �ecommended action on the Nighttime SID to MASAC. The final product submitted to MASAC will be a quality product inclusive of all necessary analyses. John Nelson, Bloomington, reminded the committee that the Noise Abatement Departure Profiles (NADPs) close-in versus distant, is still pending, and that MASAC was to receive a report in July. John Foggia responded that a meeting is scheduled with HNTB on 6-8-95 to discuss NADPs. Northwest Airlines submitted all information needed to HNTB for analysis. An update will be given to MASAC at the July meeting. Chairman Salmen reminded members that the "Airport Authority" determines which procedure will be us�d. When in-place, the airlines would only change a departure procedure if safety were a factor. Currently, Northwest uses the distant departure profile. The next Operations Committee meeting was scheduled for July 13, 1995, 1:30 p.m. � The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m. Respectfully submitted: Jean Deighton Committee Secretary � 0��'��S � r Operatzons and Complaint Summary 1 Operations,Summary All Aircraft .....................................................................................1 I�fISP May Fleet 14'Iix Perceatage ..........................................................................................1 Airport May Complaint Summary .......................................................................................1 May Operatians Summary - A.iiport Directors Qffice .........................................................1 1Vli�neapali,s = St. P�cullnternational Airport �'omplaint Summt�ry 2 ComplaintSummary by City ...............................................................................................2 Tower �og Reports 3 AllHours ..............................................................................................................................3 Nightt�me Hours ..............................................................................................�.........,..........3 AllOperations 4 � Runway Use' Report May 1 to 19, 1995 ...............................................................................4 Carrier Jet Operations S - . Runway Use Report Ma.y 1 ta 19, 1995 ..................................................................•......,.....5 Nighttime - All Operations �5 a Itunway Use Report May 1 to 19,1995 ................................ ...................,......................6 Nighttirne �'arrier Jet Operation� � Runway Use Repart May 1 to 19,1995 .................... Carrier Jet Operations by Type 8 Aircraft Identi,,,�er and DeseriptconTable 9 Runway I�se =.DayllVight Periods - Al�i Operations 10 ...............................7 DaytimeHou.rs .............................................................:.....................................................10 C'vmmunit� Over��light �nalysis �� Carrier 7et Operatians - All Hours ................................:....................................................11 Carrier Jet Operations - Nighttime (11pm • 6 am) .............................................................11 � Aviation. Noise Programs ` � 4 Remote Monitoring 5ite Locations 12 f ; Nazse Events 13 - -� � Caunt of Naise Events for Each RMT .............................................:.................................13 ,� Anulysis of Aircraft Noise Events - Aircraft Ld� dB{A) 14 ,� Analys�s af Airerafi Noise Events - A�rer'dit Ll�n dB{A) I S �I P. Aviation Noise Programs ', � Metropolitan Airports Commission Page 1 Operations and Complaint Summary May 1 to 19,1995 Operations Summary - All Aircraft MSP May Fleet Mix Percentage Airport 114ay Complaint Summary May Operations Summary - Airport Directors Office Aviation Noise Programs x � • �ti0 I I I1tai1 AiFpOItS C4iTilIliSSiOIl � � Minneapolis - St. Paul Internationa� Airport Complaint Summary � May 1995 � Complaint Summary by City ; � � Eden Prairie Edina Falcon Fiei�ht Inver Grove Hei� � Mendota. Hei� Minneapali Oakdale Prescott Richfield Roseville ' S. St. Paul W, St. Paul Time of Day 19 20 j 1.5% 1 2 - � O.I% ,,,� „ ,,, „_, , ,,, 1% 14 15 1._ 21 24 ' � 1.8°la 1 1 ' � p.1% 323 372 � 27.2% 3 3 I � 0.2% 1I 11 � � 0.$% 1 1 ' � 0.1% 152 155 � 11.3% 0 2 � 4.1°l0 Q 1 i � p. l.% 1 i4 129 � 9.4°l0 426 549 '� � 40.1% 3 3 � Q,2% 0 1 i 0.1°l0 36 40 � 2.9% 2 2 j 0.2% 6 7 � � O.S% 0 5 � 0.4% 3 ; 22 � � 1.6% z 2 . i o.i% � Nature of Excessive Noise � I 1285 EariyJLate � 45 Low Flying ' � 23 Structural Disturbance �� 7 Helicopter ' � 1 Ground Naise ; � $ Engine Run-up . . � 4 Frequency , � 7 Aviation Naise Frograms Page 2 +,.,'��,�".. .. :��:�::.. Tower Log Reports � May l��s All Hours _�_�,�`t��fa�;>': :�`::':�`�.:�;�.:��:;::: _ - � 22 .I 1 44 =::�:�'�'::�;. �:: ��'��:::::��: � ::::. :.,.�:..:::: `;:;: ';`> , ..:::�...r�..�.�..::_;:: �{<;�L��:;;::. '::�:�:�::`. <:<�:� �::�>:::::�::::: II 29 , N��t�me Hours � :::<:::;;::�;�'�;�;.: ;. - `'::��:�;;:;�;:�:;:::: :� �� :�::�:'��'`` �� ::�:�'��::: � 29 t14 ��`��:;��:�;:: . : ::::� ��:.::::. Aviation Noise Pro�zrams m All Uperations Runway Use Report May 1 to 19,199 :;::;:;:::�:�:� � � ��::��:�;: � � ::' :�1;3°�;;::�::::: <_��:9:�`a.. - 2� I1 t)4 <>:;: "<�:;�;°�a ::>`;��:><:::. Q4 11L 11R 22 29L 29R � i85 3Q22 2626 29 3278 2900 i Metropoiitan Airports commisszcxi 5 � � , , � i 29 � � `:=:��;��`' :<:��;��o:. �,:..:f:. ,� I.S% 25.1°l0 21.$% 0.3% 27.2% 24.1% 0.1% 25.7%a 24.5% 2.Q% 24.1% 23.0% Aviation Naise Programs ` 247 39$7 3774 242 3892 347$ 65 4391 4124 726 29i8 3069 ; � l .d% � 25.5°l0 ; � 24.2% '� I,S% � 24.9°la ' � 22.3% � 0.4% ' � �8.7%a � 27.0% � 4.$% � 19.2°l0 � � 2�.0%O Page 4 MeErapalitan Aur�rts Commission Carrier Jet Operatians Runway Use Report May 1 to 19,1995 ::`<:::=::�:��:� � ��:�::��"`��: . :::�i�;�: ��. 11 t�4 <;;;:.::;::��;� ::::�:�:�`a:>�;: ...... . .. ...... . ;;.;:�:��a;°:,:.. 22 29 �':�:��s:�`� �:��'`� r,.: Page 5 Aviatiau Noise Programs , i , �� , Nighttime - All Uperations i ' Runway Use Report May 1 to 19,1995 � i � �-.:::;::��:�: , '::��:�,:. ::> �`;: .: i :::�� w � >::�::�'�., - . 2� I 1.1 i a4 :::�<;��:�� :>:::��::<;> i4 33 65 0 253 64 2 27 106 5 25 6 29 ' `�.=:^�:��'¢�� ' ::::�� 3.3% 7.7% 15.2% 0.4% 58.9% 14.9% �i.2% 15.$% 62.0% 2.9% 14.6%a 3.S% Aviation Naise Programs 16 46 139 36 48 22 �aiitan A3rports Commission � 6.2% i � 8.6% ', 12.9% ! 1 1,3% ; � 59.3% � � 11.7% �, � 5.2% � iS.Q°lo � 1 45.3% � 11.7% ' � 15.6°l0 : � 7.2% Page 6 Me�ropolitan Airparts Commission Nighttime Carrier Jet Operations Runway Use Report May 1 to 19,1995 �:::::�:��: �.':':� :�:�� : ;': �`'`` .::;<:�:��.��:��. � :�:�:�:�:�:... . 22 11 04 :_::�:��Ni'� A «:��;'��:.:.:::::: 29 '` ��:��, i.� � �4Y�; Til::: Page 7 Aviation Noise Programs Carrier Jet Operations by �pe � May 1 to 19,1995 ::::::.:�::.::::.::;.:::>��,��;.:.:�...:::::::::::�:<:>:�:: ::::':>:��::;�::::��::.::.:.:�:...;�:::.;:�::`.::; :::::'�`:;:::::::::.::::::::::�::�:»�::::..:::: ........ ��.�. `�`pe �,t��;. �'��c+�� :: ::. . .. . . ........ ......... :.::.: :.::: :.::: .. ....... ........ :..::, :.:. :.: B727H �94 0.6% DC9H 862 5.8% B707 1 0.0% B733/4/5 759 5.1% B747 107 ' 0.7% B74F 9 0.0% B757 1070 7.1% B767 1 0.0% DA10 12 0.1% DC10 " 549 3.7% DC87 104 0.7% ' EA32 1558 10.4% FK10 654 4.4% L101I 5 0.0% MD 11 30 0.2% I1/ID80 " 827 5.5% BA10 3 0.0% BAll 1 0.0% B727 2675 17.9% B737 474 3.2% DC8 60 0.4% DC86 23 0.2% DC9 5059 33.8% FK28 35 0.2% .:: .:::,,. ::�i1 ::::::::::::. ... ... . .,... : ::. .; .:: ....:::::.,,:<.:.:.: ;:.;::;;.:: : ...:::: :,: :: .::::.;:.; ::.;:: :: : : : ::: :: : .:::. � : >:: �' . ..: . :1�9�;;��: .>>y ::. �': ��°i`�:: '�' �; Airports Commission °/a Stage III . 55.6% Stage II Aviation Noise Programs ; I page g i Metropolitan Airports Commission Page 9 Aircraft Identifier and DescriptionTable :.::�;.:::: . . .. . ...r.: . :.::. �.::.>::.. � ::::::::::: .... ........ .....::::::::::::.:::: :::.,:::::. �::::::::::::::::. �. �:::::::::: .::::::::::.::: .... :::�:w� �i>:�:.::::::::. . >� .:.. : : . .: : :.... �:...... ... .. �.:.:: : .: .. .:: �: .. .: .,.: : . :. .: . .. :.: . .:::. . . ......: : . . .: . . . . . . . . . . . . . : .>:.>..>: :.: :.: . . .. . . . : : : : : . . . . . : : : : . .: :>: : . . . ... :.. ..... . . .: ...... .::::.... . :.::... .. ...;.:.. �'.?. :' ?'?:.•ti..R� i'i:v� :.::: ... ........ :..i:i:� .:.':.�:ti:i'v:' .....}I.}: ......:........ :i • • .. ........ 0 :::: :. ..: .. .: .. ..... yj�y j, y1��yc j�� ' AJR:�f:i��1L:k' ��iil�7:;.:.,:'•i::•.'i::.`'i�:v'....•.::+•'F.>��"�.::'.ii::�?>::��...•.:ti!'+.'i�:;'{';: �+,�yy h�y; � :�::�a.:<.;: •: :.::: n:Si��.Ci�7.Zi�Gk:::�:�rFi i..:;{6i#i:i' �::: ::i•'•�3a:: .::.'.?�3:s�:�' . :+:."t5: • ;.>x� �• :•:�a::;: r:;:a,t+.;:•: x::o-i �s:;:::•:: t>r;:;?+.•x .: - i�:t=.;;:::: :::;>;:: i^:Sr,;•.;::;i:;?;:i ;., ......... . .:... ............... ,.::' :::::::::.:::::..:::::::::::::. :::.:.;.::::::.,-::::.;:.�.::::::.::::::.:<•i:�::;r:i::•:::::o;::>:SS:v::;::->:7>x::%:::::o>s:::. ;.:........ .. . . .� .:::::::::::..:.:. �._:;::::::::::. ::.�::..,;.;::'=::. ........ .......... .. . .:. . . ...... �:......::.�: •.;.:,�. :•::.::::. :•::: �:....:::::f%�rs:::>r•::•:>:;; �:xa:>:::;:<�s:::�>:::..:;.;;::;�a;:>::•:: z>:�:rx:.�:: r::�:.:::::�;:;:yr':s::; :�: ;: ;�:::.?.:;?:;;.;}:;:;'t�i';":a;:�::;:�>i::?-:'>;>::;;;::-: s:'s. B727 BOIING 72'7 � . B727H BOEING 727 - AUSH KiT B1U7 BOEIl�TG 741 B'733 BOEING 737-3W B737 BOEII�TG 737 B�3S BOEIl�IG 73'7 200 SE;RIES B'747 BOIING 747 B74F BOEING 747 FRIIGiiTER B'757 BOIING 757 B767 ' . BQEil�tG 76? BAIl BRTTISH AEl20SPAt� 111 BEC � � BEECHC'RAFT (ALI- SE;RIE,S) , BEi � BEEQiCE2AFT 19U0 BE80 BEECHCRAFI' KIl�iG AIIt BE99 BEECHC�tAFT QUEErt AIlt CNA C�SSNA {ALL SEC2IES} DC10 MGDQNNELL DC?UGLAS DC10 DC8 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC8 � . DC8S MC�30NNE[.L DOUGLAS DC8 S2T2ETCH DC86 . MCDONl�tELL D{}UGLAS T}C8 60-SERICS DC87 MCDONNEL.L DOUGLAS DC8 70-SERIE.S RE DC9 � MC�ONNF.LL D(3UGLAS DC9 DC9H M{�1tii�+1F.L.L DC}UGLAS DC9 ABS HUSH KTT EA32 AIRBUS INDUSTRIES A324 FK10 FOI�{E1t 100 FK28 FOKKER F28 FK27 FOH�KER F27 {PRQP} L1011 LQC� TRiSTAR L1011 iVI�'►II MC'DONNII�L D(JUGLAS DCIl NID84 MCDQNNELL DC}UGLAS DC4 80-SERIES SW3 SWI3ARINGEN MEIROLINER 3 SW4 ' SWL�,ARINGEN METRQLINER 4 SF34' SAAB 340 Aviation Noise Progcams i Merropolitan Airpons commission � Runway Use - Day/Night Periods - All Operations Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport May 1 to 19,1995 i Daytime Hours � Nighttime Hours Aviation Noise Programs Page !0 MetragaliEan Airports Commission Camxnunity C�verflight Analysis Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport May 1 to 19,1995 Carrier Jet 4perations - All Hours Carrier Jet Operatfons - Nighttime {11pm - 6 am) Page i 1 Aviation Noise Programs a � i Metropolitan Airports Commission • . . li !. Manneapolts-St. Paul Internat�onal Ai�po�t . . . . . � 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 � 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Airport Noise Monitoring System Location ; � �:�; . ��:��.�� Minneapolis Minneapolis 1Vlinneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Richfield Minneapolis . S� Paul S� Paul S� Paul S� Paul Mendota Heights Eagan Mendota Heights Eagan Bloomington Richfield Bloomington Richfield Inver Grove Heights Inver Grove Heights Mendota Heights Eagan Xerxes Avenue & 41st Street Fremont Avenue & 43rd Sh�eet W. Elmwood Street & Belmont Avei i Oakland Avenue & 49th Sh�eet � lZth Avenue & 58th Street � 25th Avenue & 57th Street ,� Wentworth Ave & 64th Street i Longfellow Avenue & 43rd Streei Saratoga Street & Hartford Aveni i Itasca Avenue & Bowdoin Street Finn Street & Scheffer Avenue i Alton Street & Rockwood A enuE Southeast end of Mohican Court First Street & McKee Street i Cullon Street & Lexington Avenu� , Avalou Avenue & Vilas Lane i 84th Street & 4th Avenue i 75th Street & 17th Avenu�e 16th Avenue & 84th Street 75th Street & 3rd Avenue � Barbara Avenue & 67th S�eet Anne Marie 1Yai1 � � End of Kendon Avenue� Chapel Lane & Wren Lane Aviation Noise Programs Page 12 Metropolitan Airports Commission Noise Events May 1 to 19,1995 Count of Noise Events for Each RMT ::...�:: ��:; �:::....:. ...:::.:......�.�.....:.:.:..:.::.:....:..:.:.....:.;�:.:;.:....:::::.....:.:.::::..:::.:::..:..:::::....:.::::....::::::::.:.....:.:;:....:.:::.::...:.:<�.;.�..::::::.;.:...:..:.:..::::......:.;.,...::::..�.:.:.....:.::::::.:...:..._:......_:..::._. , ... .... ....... . :: ; .: ::: .:: ::� ::: .; �:�::;:; ;:::��:::.. :: :: .;:.: ,:...::...:��::.... : :� .:::...:.:.::: :.: ��..:. �::: :.:.:.::. :: .:R�`�`�� : :: :::::;,..:.::. :: :,:::�.::::<:>:::>...::,; :::.:...:::::. ::.:::�:.:. :..::::::.�.�::...:::. :::: .:��n �: :: :: ;�ven : > :: �:�. . :::: :. . .:.: .::::.:::::::�s .::. �:::::::.:.��s .::. ::::��,��:: .,,; :��ei�#:�:: : :. ::::::.::.: ..:�:>. �:�� :� .::' .:�:.::::..��u€��:��:< ::�� :. : �, > ;:; .. ::::::.:,::::.... :: > . :::.:...::.:::... :: > .: :.:.::..::.:::.:.::.:::: ..::,,...;...:::.:,:..: :� ::�; : �: . . � ,.; .:.::��,� .:.:.::::::::::.:..:: ::: :..: ..::::.:..��i..:.�. ::: .:..; . ; .:: :: .;-.: .. ...::: ::.... : ` :'. : . ..:. .:::: .a�f�� :: :: :�..::..;::�:. : ::: ::��It��<�� :: ` �:��;��dB � :; 1 Minneapolis Xerxes Avenue & 41st Street 5070 386 10 4 2 Minneapolis Fiemont Avenue & 43rd St�+eet 5353 992 19 1 3 Minneapolis W Flmwood Street Fc Belmarit Avenue 6817 1693 119 6 4 Minneapolis Oakland Avenue 8c 49th Street 8720 2453 278 18 5 M'inneapolis 12th Avenue & 58th SG�et 12502 5966 1796 205 6 Minneapolis 25th Avenue & 57th Sti+eet 14731 7804 2948 925 7 Richfield Wentworth Ave & 64th Street 6063 1368 166 5 8 Minneapolis Longfellow Avenue � 43rd Street 4224 861 98 4 9 St. Paul Sazatoga Street & Hartford Avenue 1941 78 11 5 10 St. Paul Itasca Avenue 8c Bowdoin Street 2531 61 15 0 11 St. Paul Finn Street & Scheffer Avenue 882 174 7 0 12 St. Paul Alton St�eet & Rockwood Avenue 4968 818 44 7 13 Mendota Heights Southeast end of Mohican Court 3753 S 16 31 0 14 Eagan First Strcet & MGKee Street 10967 611 96 36 15 Mendota Heights Cullen Street & Lexingta� Avenue 8075 � 1183 92 3• 16 Eagan Avaloai Avenue &. V'�las Lane 11475 4110 440 23 17 Bloomington 84th Street � 4th Avenue 2467 260 12 0 18 Richfield 75th Street 8i 17th Avenue 4302 458 100 9 19 Bloomington 16th Avenue & 84th Stieet 1225 230 6b 5 20 Richfield 75th Street � 3rd Avenue 1820 117 18 2 21 Inver Grove Heights Barbara Avenue & 67th Street 2739 480 4 0 22 Inver Grove Heights Anne Marie Trail 4950 422 4 0 23 Mendota Heights End of Kendon Avenue 9059 2259 942 95 24 Eagan C�apel Lane & Wren Lane 8952 2269 1050 16 Page 13 Aviation Noise Programs Q � � � � � � : � m m m � m � � m : � Analysis af Aircraft Noise Events - Aircraft May Ol to May 19,1995 Naise Monitor Locations � � �1t2II iili�}dt1'S �.OIIlII12SS20II i dB�A} �l 55.9 59S 63.8 63.5 74.1 69.0 65.1 61.2 47.6 48. 57.3 5$,0 65.2 625 72.8 '73.6 60.8 54.1 53.4 53. 57.4 60.0 63.b 63.0 73.9 '70.6 Sb.6 51 A 53.4 54. 59,4 599 63.3 67.8 76.2 8U.4 68.4 66.4 45.4 54. 59.8 62.4 64.7 69.2 77.7 81.4 70.2 69.6 57.4 46. 54.9 fii.2 4$.5 64.3 59.3 'Tl.l 50.1 54A 4'7.9 47. 54.4 fi6.6 54.3 68.1 b1.2 ?49 �4.4 54.3 4$.2 5i. 65.5 68.0 * 67.9 75.4 74.0 61.2 * 52.6 53. 63.2 64.5 * 65.9 • 74.Q '71.6 56.4 * 47.9 S7. 58.5 59.5 63.4 69.b 78.1 80.b 72.9 63.b 50,5 44. 59.5 61.2 65.4 74.1 77.2 $Q.8 68.4 65.3 54.7 52. 59.5 64.8 66.7 63.9 72.3 71.7 47.3 56.3 57.3 58: b2.5 64.9 69.0 67.2 * 75.0 61.6 60.1 48.0 54. 57,6 58.1 52.5 66.4 73.9 80.2 65.7 65.2 56.4 48. 56.0 6p.1 62.9 69.2 75.8 $0.1 67.6 65.3 66.5 67. 63.5 61.5 64.6 68.1 76.2 $0.2 69.1 66.9 53.7 48. * 64.a 74.A� �3.s 77.o sl.s 72.7 72.s �a.z s2. * 63.9 65.2 64.7 73.8 77.1 62.8 62.0 53.7 ?0. * 59.3 65.2 70.2 77.0 81.6 67.9 69.0 55.5 55.: ,I �. * Less than twenty four haurs.of data available Aviatian Noise Programs 43.0 66.8 47.4 55.4 54.1 66.9 45,6 69.6 45.2 58.1 45.1 53.5 44.9 51.0 46.2 61.5 55.4 67.2 44.'7 fi8.4 49.5 66.7 48.4 67,5 46.3 50.1 44.4 51.2 53.8 62.5 51.5 55.8 SI.6 57,4 53.1 56.0 53.6 56.2 Paae 14 Meiropolitan Airports Commission Analysis of Aircraft Noise Events - Aircraft Ldn dB(A) May Ol ta May 19,1995 Naise Monitar Locations >s::<: �::: .: ::>:<::::.:::..: :::,: ::;. ..:�:::s .:.::: : :.....:::::4:::::::� :.:::.:.....:: �:�::::...:.....: ..:.:...:......;.::: :'. .... 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Report on ANOMS Technical Difficulties - Traci Erickson � Technical Advisor's Runway System Utilization Report and Complaint Sur Persons Wishing to Address the Council Report of MAC Commission meeting • ' I Other Items Not on the Agenda j Adjournment I � i i Next Meeting: August 22, 1995 � � . .. . .. .... .. ` . . .. NOTE;: Oni:y des.igrta:ted. MASAC' regreseiit.ati:v�s �seated a� : tlie tab�e will }�e al:lowed.. tQ vote._� �' 1. MINUTES METROPOLITAN AIRCRAFT SOUND ABATEMENT COUNCIL GENERAL MEETING JUNE 27, 1995 7:30 p.m. 6040 28th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota Call to O�der. Roll Call The meeting was called to order by Chairman Bob Johnson at 7:30 p.m. and the secretary was asked to call the roll. The following members were in attendance: Mark Salmen Jennifer Sayre Brian Bates Dale Kariya Bob Johnson Ron Johnson Dick Keinz John Richter Joe Lee Gordon Wagner Scott Bunin Thomas Hueg Don Priebe Jamie Verbrugge Vem Wilcox Ann Lenczewski Mayor Tom Egan Jon Hohenstein Jill Smith Ed Porter James Hollenbeck Dale Hammons Glenda Spiotta Advisors De�is Comell Ron Glaub Steve Cramer John Foggia Roy Fuhrmann Traci Erickson Guests Cha�lie Kennedy 1 Northwest Northwest . Airbome Sun Country M BAA ALPA MAC Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis ' St. Paul St. Paul Richfield Richfield Bloomington Bloomington Eagan Eagan Mendota Heights _ Bumsville Bumsville Inver Grove Heights Sunfish Lake-Associate Public Member FAA FAA MAC Commissioner Technical Advisor MAC Supv.Aviation Noise Programs MAC ANOMS Specialist MPCA 2. Approvai of Minutes The minutes of the May 23, 1995, meeting were approved as presented. '�, 3. Introduction of Invited Guests Receiqt of Communication No invited guests. A letter from the City of Eagan received June 9, requested ANOMS flight track analysis for operations southeast of MSP for the weekends of April 29-30, May 6-7, and June 3-4. Chairman Johnson �efeRed the request to the Operations Committee. i) A copy of a letter addressed to Northwest Airlines, from the Northem Dakota County Airport Relations Coalition (comprised of •the following cities: Eagan, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota, Mendota Heights and Sunfish Lake) requested Northwest's cooperation in developing and testing the "Disfant" and "Close-in" departure procedures outlined by the FAA Advisory Circular No. 91-53A. Chairman Johnson responded that the MASAC Operations Committee will continue to review and analyze the Noise Abatement Departure Profiles with the assistance of HNTB and Northwest Ai�lines. Chairman Johnson introduced finro new MASAC members. Ed Porter will �eplace Juan Rivas as the Bumsville representative, and Dale Hammons will replace Jim Kunzman as the Inver Grove Heights representative. ' 4. Update: Operations Committee Meetinq June 7. 1995 I The minutes of the Operations Committee held June 7, 1995, were distributed to all members. Chairman Mark Salmen reported the Nighttime Runway 22 SID was reviewed and discussed. The committee listed eight items staff is to accomplish before the next Operations Committee meeting. Chairman Salmen reported the �Operations Committee will also review the method of determination for Noise Abatement Departure Profiles (NADPs). The next Operations Committee meeting will be held July 13, 1995. 5. Uqdate: Global Positioninq Svstem (GPS) John Foggia �eported the New Noise Management Methodology will be p'resented to the MAC Planning and Environment Committee, and GPS will be presented at the July MAC Management and Operations Committee. Funding for the GPS project will be requested. GPS implementation is anticipated for September 1995. Both' issues will be forwarded and presented to the MAC full Commission in July. �, � John �eported MSP's implementation of the first differential GPS ground station was announced at the Paris Air Show last week. GPS is a major break through for navigational capabilities and MSP is proud to be a part of one of aviation's'milestones. • MASAC will continually be updated on GPS. . I -_ 2 ' . _ . . �-- 6. Technical Advisor's Runwav Svstem Utilization Report and Complaint Summarv Due to complications with new hardware being installed at the Air Traffic Control Tower, the May 1995 Technical Advisor's Report was abbreviated. The information contained in the report is for May 1 through May 19, 1995. Complications with the system resulted in May 19 through June 19, 1995 data being unavailable for analysis. The problem in the system was corrected. All flight track, noise, and operations data will be reported from June 20, 1995 to present. ---� i Several topics of interest in the May ReporE�are: Stage 3 at 44.4%, 17 DC9-30 s hush kitted by the end of May 1995, and 35 DC9-30's are scheduled to be hush kitte� by the end of 1995. J \,,� ,� .,�� . / 7. Persos Wshinq to Address the Council John Richter, Minneapolis, stated that as a result of 8% of the total community residents impacted by, noise suing Denver Stapleton Airport, the new Denver Intemational Airport was built. Jamie Verbrugge, Richfield, relayed that it is presumptuous to believe that the Denver Intemational Airport was built based on a lawsuit. It was built after a thorough study evaluated Denver Stapleton Airport as being inadequate to handle future increased operations. - 8. Repo�t of MAC Commission Meetinq June 19, 1995 Chairman Johnson reported that a preliminary report by the consultants on the remote runway concept was discussed. The report showed the remote runway concept will cost more than expanding MSP, or building a new airport. The Commission is waiting for the official written report due in at the end of July 1995. At that time, the remote runway concept will be reviewed again. A copy of the final report will be made available for interested members. 9. Other Items Not on the Aqenda Scott Bunin St Paul moved and Jill Smith, Mendota Hei4hts, seconded, to send a Resolution of Apqreciation to Juan Rivas Bumsville for his lonQ-time membership and service to this council. A vote was taken and unanimouslv passed. Don Priebe, Richfield, asked what we can do to utilize Runway 4/22 to a greater extent. Chairman Johnson �esponded that greater use of Runway 4/22 is being discussed at MASAC committee meetings. .._ r. 10. Adiournment Chairman Johnson adjoumed the meeting at 8:10 p.m. Respectfully submitted: � Jean Deighton, Secretary UPCOMING MEETING DATES Fu(I Commission August 21, 1995 1:00 p.m.- Room 303 Planning & Environment Committee August 8, 1995 1:00 p.m. - Room 301 4 MASAC August 22, 1995 7:30 p.m. ��_ MINUTES OF THE NORTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY AIRFORT RELATIONS CflALtT10N .lttne 21, i995 GALL TU ORDER The meeting was convened at 7.40 a.m. in fhe Eagan Police Department Canferenc Laweli presided over the meeting. The following member cities were present: City of Mendota Heights+ City of tnver Grave Neights and City af Menda#a � AGENDA Rooms. Tom :agan� City of I# was recommended that other business items concerning aa update on the corriclor crossing coricept and the Runway 4122 Gtigation be added to the'agenda. Upan mation by Cummings, secanded by Beaty, all members voting in favor, the agenda was approved as amended. � MINUTES � Upon motion by Amish, seconded by Beafy, ali members voting in favor, #he minutes of the May 17, 1995 meeiing were approved as presented. , NIGHT TIME OPERATIONS ; Tom Lawell introduced the item and indicated that the MASAC Operations Committee is �eviewing severai night time opsratians Issues inctuding a startdard ins#rument depat#ure {SID} iar Runway 4122, an effort to shift some aperations fram the shouider haurs which are defined as 6:00 a.m. to'7:OQ a.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m, and the voluntary night time restrictions curcentty utilized by #he MAC to limi# opetatiarts befween '! 1:00 p.m and 6:OQ a.m. � i� W i t h respe c# ta t he Runway � 1 2 2 S t D, i t was na#� d t hat S lDs are common at o# her a i�parts, but there are very few of them at MSP. The discussion of a late night Runway 4/22 SID may be the basis for o#her instrumeni departures at this airpart. ;� The coaGtion discussed haw shifting from shoulder houcs to other hours may aifect runway choices and cancentrations. tt was noted that if shifting is passibte, fhe trade-off may be mare concentration prior to late night in exchange for less concentratian during ordinary sleeping hours. It was noted that the�e is no clea�-cut answer to this ssnce the frequency of aperativns is reptacing simple noise votuine as a maJar compiaint. ; � The caa(ition next discussed what periods of operations are �ow enough ta pemnut aircraft to use the middle of the corridoc. it was pointed out thai the current tower ardec direc#s such operations whenever fraffic vafumes are tow enough to permi# it and fhat tate night operations fevets wauid certainiy�permit the use of the middle of the corridor. The coalition next discussed the extent to which Stage 3 aircraft are used by air cartiers and charters at night. Information provided by the NIAC irtdicated #Eza# a�eia#veiy high percentage of the operations at night we�e Stage 3. The caalition then discussed the vaGdity of the aitport's current runway use system (RUS) ii it cannot min'smize impacts on residents southeast of the airparE. � Represen#atives of the Cities of Eagan and Mendota Heights who s'st on the MASAC Opecations Committee indicated #hat #hey wauld incorporate these comments in future discussions by tfiat body. I.! 'Page 2lNorkhern Dakota County Airport Retatians Caatition ~ June 21, t9S5 RUNWAY 4l22 EXTENSION The coalition next discussed the extension of Runway 4/22 and the potential impacts lt would have an operations. tt was indicaied that the shifiing af traffc wouid pdssiarily occur between the C�tjr af Minneapotis and the crosswind runway resulting in no noticeable decrease in impac#s southeast of the airport. The coalition then discussed the possibility that the runway extension coutd, in fact, incresse capacity at the airpart even thouyh #he enviranmenfal review was based on shifting traffic rathet' fhan Increasing it. The coalition members present determined that it was necessary far the cities ta take a joint pasit�on to participaie in the mediation currentty underway between the Cities of Minneapalis and Richfield and the MAC and Metropolitan Council. Due to the time frame invotved, Pete Amish offered to drafi a letter which each City woutd ptace an its awn letterhead and forward fo #he MAG. CURRIDflR CROSS!!ti(G PROCEDURE Mendota Heights reported that the FAA in Chicago will �eview envi�anmental work prepared by the alrporYs cansuttant retative to this prapasai and asked if othe� cities would be generalty supportive of the concept. The other member cities indicated they are generally supportive of studying the concept� but Eagan aad Inver Grave Heights w�nt to revtew the environementats before supparting Imptementa#on of the concept. It was noted that an outcome of the environmental review may either be a finding of na signiticant impact or a requirement toc an environmenta! assessment. OTHER BUSINESS It was agreed that Mendota Heigh#s would coordinate an invitation to Honeyweil representatives to address a joint mee#ir�g of all airport commissians an geographic positianing sateitite {GPS) technoiogies. Additionai information �egarding this meeting wiil be forwarded to the member cities. With respect to departure nrofites, it was reported that #he joint letterhead had been signed by ail five Mayors and was being mailed to Northwest Airlines ori the day of the meeting. it was noted tha# a pilot ar� the Mendota Heights Commission had stated that there �s more ab9l�ty for mos# aircra#t ta cCrrib more in the initial stages of�departure. 'i t�e coalition indicated #hat it wants to investigate this matter fu�the� with pilats who actual�y fly the procedures. The coalition next discuss��i the �emote runway study results which had been reported as part of the dua) track ptanning process. It was indicated that cansuttants found this to be tfie most expensive of the alternatives due to the rail linkage and n�cessity to duplicate facilities. NEXT MEETING & ADJOURNMENT The next regular meeting of the Northern Dakota Gounty Airport Relations Coalition was scheduled fpr Wednesday. July 19. at 7:3Q a.m. at the Pa�ker Hause in Mendota. Agenda items at that tlme will include updates an previaus ac#ivities and a discussion of additionat ANOMS monitor tocations. The meeting was then adjourned at approximately 9:Op a.m. �� MINIJTES OF THE NORTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY AIRPORT RELATIONS COALITION (NDCARC) July 19, 1995 CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 7:40 a.m. at the Parker House Restaurant located in the city of Mendota. Tom Lawell presided over the meeting. The following members were present: Linda Cummings, Steve Hughes, Pet-e Amish of Inver Grove HeigYits; Jim Toya of Mendota; Gienda Spiotta of Sunfish Lake, Jon Hohenstein of Eagan; Ellsworth Stein, Tom Lawell and Scott Beaty of Mendota Heights. I� MINUTES Upon motion by Amish and seconded by� Hohenstein, all members voting in favor, the minutes we approved. � � I CLOSE IN VS. DISTANT DEPARTURE ISSUE � Jon Hohenstein circulated the response to the Coalitions letter to Mr. John Dasburg of NWA. The response came from Mark Salmen, Manager of Airport Operations at NWA. The response, which stated that NWA currently uses noise abatement departure prof'iles developed in the 70's and that MAC will make the finalldecision, with MASAC's input, as to which of the two profiles (close in or distant) will be used at MSP. The letter also suggested the Coalition work through MASAC on this issue. The latter;�suggestion was unanimously unacceptable to all members present. :I , Al1 members agreed that we must continue to press the i�ssue with both MASAC and MAC. It still remains unclear if better;departure profiles could be established that would improve the noiise issues for the five communities of the Coalition. Members were�skeptical as to whether MASAC could be effective in pressuring this issues because of its industry make-up. ifl. All agreed that another letter restating our issues, copied to MASAC, would be sent. MOTION-Hohenstein � That another letter be sent to NWA, copied to MASAC, restating the Coalitions concern that current departure profiles�and procedures may not take advantage of aircraft departure� capabilities; questioning assumptions made in the response letter; suggest a meeting with them and/or their consultants. SECONDED-Toya ; i DISCUSSION � It was suggested that wording suggesting a meeting with NWA consultants be omitted from the letter. Jon Hohenstein agreed to draft the letter. Motion passed unanimous].y. !� UPDATES Jon Hohenstein informed the Coalition of the most recent status of the mediation process regarding the expansion of runway 4-22. Eagan is now involved in the �rocess, Inver Grove Heights has sent a letter requesting information and possible inclusion. Page 2 NDCARC MEETING JULY 19, 1995 Mendota Heights is interested and may seek to have a presence in the procedures. Each community involved in the mediation will be required to contribute $20,000 which will pay for a survey and other associated costs of the mediation. Preliminary findings and outcomes of the mediation concerning the extension are: More capacity of the parallel runways, but departures may be reduced due to more use of 4-22. The Metropolitan Eouncil will hear MAC's recommendation on 7/27/95. The c�rrent draft of the mediation will: 1. Approve MAC's recommendation; 2. Suggest a further review of the noise redistribution plan. 3. Richfield will agree to stay the lawsuit which has been f�led. NEXT MEETING DATES SET August 16, 1995 7:30 a.m Mendota Heights City Hall September 27, 1995 7:30 a.m. Sunfish Lake-St. Ann's Church � GPS DISC[TSSION Scott Beaty informed the Coalition of the Mendota Heights Airport Relation Commissions recent presentation on the Global Positioning Sys�em (GPS) and MSP's commitment to bringing this technology on-line at MSP. Mr. Hal Pierce of Honeywell and John Foggia made the presentation to the Mendota Heights group. This technology has the capacity to significantly change the operations of departures and landings at the airport. The NDCARC unanimously agreed to explore this technology further. Tom Lawell will contact Mr. Foggia and invite him to the next Coalition meeting in August. ANOMS DISCIISSION Glenda Spiotta informed the group that at the last MASAC meeting Mr. Foggia had suggested to the group that sounds recorded by ANOMS in the 65db level could be made by voices, cars etc.. No one at the meeting seemed to question this statement and Ms. Spiotta questioned whether this could really be an accurate statement. CITY IIPDATES Scott Beaty suggested that city updates become a regular agenda item at meetings so that members can follow what each community is working on regarding airport sound issues. Sunfish Lake is currently examinig zoning codes related to air noise in theYr community. Frank Tiffiny would like the minutes of the meetings to go directly to his office. Jim Toya asked if other communities had concerns with prop plane noise. Mendota receives a great deal of prop plane fly overs. Mendota Hieghts also gets this kind of air noise. It was suggested that this issue be added to the list of priority issues the Coalition will address. With no further business the meeting adjourned at 9:00 a.m. -- " . _ . �_- •<:j;-;:. ,,, .j ,�,,. ,: rr::: �= � .,,.. < ;�,; .,�. . ,'N�r: .; ;� ; %;;j ; : hA i s�:•=: '::�:=? . _ �•`hr,•- •:•r;::- . ' •%. `✓.YL. , i � ';`:�: : i ...:....................................................... JUI�Y 1995 � .�. , HEADIJNES /N THIS /SS(1� , BTN�� . PHASE111STARTUP � �� •� PHASE Il ANAL REP�QR'T UPDATE � °°"�"'�" �° �" ' • AUCTION 4 SC,NEDi� � �� PEASg III: descriptive data on'the community anc Initial Iatervie�rs Begia neighborhood and � provide rental The homeowner notification and �a►►Pax'ables of single family residences interview procesa for Phase III began from Richfield. Please inform the the week of J�ne 25, 1995 and will appraiser you have chosen, that these continue thraugh the week of August 27, resources are madelavailable to the 1995 for those homeowners in Priorities appraiaer to insure,each appraisal is 11 through 15. Priority 16-is a swing done accurately and will meet the block and may be added if surplus required appraisal� atandards for a funda are not available. if surplus federally funded program. funds are not available this priority � will be purchased in the beginning of �PHA38 =I Phase VS. There are a total of sixty- AC'¢[1ISITION APID RBLOCATION one (61) homea to be acquired as part Offer c� an ate: Due to the neaz of Phase =iI of the Part 150 Project. completion of the offer proceas foz ' Phase ii this July i,ssue of the Buyout 2n Phase iII, W.D. Schock Company, �nc. Update will be the last issue to report will continue to utilize the team the Phase ii offer status. concept approach for each homeowner. Each homeowner will be teamed with a As of July 21, 1995, 67 offer meetings consultant and a Project Manager. E�ch have been held, with 61 homeowners homeowner will meet their team during accepting their offers. To date, there the initial interview, and will work are only 3 outstanding offers to be closely with that team throughout the presented for Phase�Ii. entire acquisition and relocation +,� process. • ioa�ng�pdaCe: Both the acquisition and the relocation cloaing procesa for As of Jtily 21, 1995 26 homeowners have Phase ii will contiriue, even with the been contacted and 20 initial onset of activity; for Phase III interviews for Phase Ii= have been homeowners and tenants beginning. conducted. The acquisition closlirig process is now Phase Iii Aonraisals Beqin: LXle near 75�k Completion: AS Of July 21, Nagell Company, the MAC appz�aisal firm 1995, a total of 55 acquisition will begin the initial Phase 2I= field closings have been conducted for Phase appraisal inspections the week of July =I• I 24, 1995. The environmental firm of � Professional Service industries may be The relocation closing process will arriving approximately one hour before usually progress at a slower pace thari or one hour after the appraiser to acquisition. Each homeowner and tenant comp lete their internal and external has a ninety (90) day rent free time eavironmental inapections. Homeowners frame after each acquisition closing to and tenanta can anticipate increased find and move into�their replacement activity in the area due to the onset home. This time frame is regulated by of the Phase i2I appraisal process. the homeowner/tenarit to fit their individual relocatioa needs. WDSCO . WDSCO encourages each homeowner to anticipates many of the homeowners and contact their chosen appraiser at this tenant$ with childrea, will plan to be time if they are considering obtaining relocated to their, new replacement a second appraisal. There ia a homes prior to the oiset of school this required packet of infoxmation fall. regarding federally funded projects that each appraiaer will be required to The relocation closing procesa is re�d. This packet caa be picked up in nearing 35� completion. As of July 21, the lobby resource area of WDSCO's 1995, there have been a total of 30 office. An Appraisal Project Book will relocation closings conducted for Phase also be made available to all Ii. To date 15 properties in Phase II appraiser�s working with the buyout have been vacated. The total nwnber of project. This Appraisal Project Book propertiea now vacated for both Phase I can be viewed during business hours and Phase ii is 157.� from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday �� through Friday also at WDSCO's office. Dffi�SOLITION OF PHASS I . Most' appraisers will find this book H�S TO B8C3II� vezy helpful as it �ontaiits�comparable The• remaining Phase�I homes that did . sales that sold in 1995, lot values, not sell at previous auctions are paired sales analysis, background scheduled to be demolished late this : � The Part 150 Buyout Update is a newsletter by the Metropolitan � Aixports Commission and w.D. Schock Company, Inc.,� containing information on the MSP Land Acquisition and Relocation Projects. . '1 fal2.. Over the. next Eew months you wi2l be seeiug aa increase in activitlr ia the neighborhaods. There are twa e�gineeri.ng fiz�ms that are asaisting ia the demalitian groject; MSA Conaulting mgiaeers wi12 aseist ia c%�litian, and Peer Emriranmenta2 will be asaist'*+� ia aa}� asbestoe abatemeut. You cs�ay have already naticed Peer �avironmeatal aut ia the.neighborhood. They are caopletiag prelimianasy asbestos Cestiag scheduled ca= homes for demolition. Bids fcr both demaliLion and asbestos abatemeat are currently being advertised. On August 10, 1995, �rom 1:00 to 3:40 p.m., interested contracGors will be allowed Co view a sample of hamea to be detnolished. Therefare, you may ses soaie unfamiliar vehic3es in the neighborhooc3.= WE7SCti will be present in the neighborhood during the inspectic�ns. . Demoliticza and asbestos abatemeat is scheduled to begia by mid-Octat�er. Any , asbestos abatemeat required will be performed under sl:rict eavironmental saiety regulationa. Preliminary findiags froat Beer givixonmeez7ttal indicate there is a minimal level of, asbestos in the hoaEes ta be removed. Onae any necessaxy asbe5tos abatement is performed, �he demolition coatractor will begi.0 wark. The demalitian contractor will be required to make all efforts to respect the groperties of all haaeownezs that are remaiaiag in the neighborhood. Demolitiaa work on the Phase I homes is e�cpected ta be complete hy December 1995 with fiaal gradi.ng and seeding to be ccmpleted by spring of 1996. DtJI�3'L'BR IIPD3lTS The dumpstere are available aa the lst and 3rd Satus�clay of each �nanth Erom 9:00 a.m. to 5s00 pm. The dwapsCer datee far August will he the 5th and the 19th, for 3eptembes they will be• the 2nd attc3 the 16th of the month. Theze ai'e some itetas that c�n not be glac�d ia the dumgsters. xa2aXdou� Mate iais: HleaBe do not bring haaardous items such as car batteries, paiat, re�rigexant coataining appliances, or motar oiln to the du:apsters. I� you are uasure w3zat is aoasidered hazardous, ca21 Heanepia Couaty R�ecycli.ag Center at 348-8984. The� will allow you to drog afi W.D. SCHOCK COMPANY, aIC. "(� 5844 28th Aveaue South Minneapoli�, l�i 55417 Phone: '{632}724-8898 (800)260-7062 �� #" `'� , � 4 r } '1 � x . j * M a 0 +•� L /A��'�t71�t311t; O hazardous maCeria�.ts with no coat ta y�u. The drog of£ lacatioa closest to you is i400 West 96Ciz Street, Hloo�i�ngton. Call to get the hours. VevetaCive Debris: Al,ga, no yegeCative debris will be aacepted in the dumgaCers. Vegetative debr3.s iucludes grass cl.ipgings, branches, leaves,`and weeds/plants. You caa compost mosC vegetative debris or drop them off at the ile.xzaepin Couaty Recycliag Ceatar at no cos1: to you. Flease note that at the d�mgster site, Pham E�press� 2nC. (Prc7pertY' maaagemea� company) will be monitoring what you bring tc the dws►pster aad wi22 tuzxx away auy of thes� unwaatecl'materials. we appreciate your cocperatioa oa this matter sa that we may_ coatinue ta pravide the fre� dumpster sezvice to yau. En7Q�Z'S 71iTG'i'I�i St'SEL1iQi+i�Lt MAC. WDSCO, and R1Q9te]C Indu�tYi.81 Auctianeer� are curresitly plaaais� the fcurth public house aeict,iaa. it2aster 2ndustrial Auctioneers will send infoxmation packeta out to thAs�e individuala and comgaaiea curreatly oa. the mailing list, Appraximately 25-3Ct houses could be scheduled ta be auctiaoaed oa Wecinesday: Aazgus� 30, 1995. There will be two O,�en Housee far Wectaesday, AugusC 23, 1995, froca z0:00 a.m. �o �:00 p.m.: ancl Saturday: AugusG 26, 1995, also from I0:00 a.m. to 4:a0 p.m. A third Open House will be held the day of th� auctieai, frau 8;08 a.m. to 12:00 noart. WDSCQ cc�nsultaats will be patrolling the project area during each tTpea I%use. 2� you 2aave any questions or concexaa regardiag Che Op�,n Hause, one af the wasc'O consultaats will be happy to assist you, ar you may call aur o�fice (924-8898) durir�g regular business hours for asaistazice, Shculd yau have any questions regarding the actuai auctio�n, please contact Kloster Industrial Auctioneers at 931-9013. �MAC and wL7SC0 will aek all thoae attendiag the Op+�n Houses, to please shcw respeat for the fami2ies still reaiding �.n the praject area and canduct themaelves ia a quiet and caurteous maaner. The auctian will be held at the Rich�ield .Americaa Legioa. whfch is located at 650i Partland Avenue South, ltichfield. The auction begins at i:o0 p.m. . . � �' ` 'r'.. . . - . ' ,.. r. � �.� . . . . Tom Lawell 11Q1 ViCtoria Cuxy�; Mendata Hghts, I�TN 552Ig . ' ,' � : w�_ `� •:�: � ::�;.. , 7•ir.' ;::-r: : :�x;: �;;�:;� . r,;�...._........ -_ ��.. r j" . . � ' • . . �� :-� :. ..:;r;`.' � � �i `- . ' .. ,3,• :�1,._ -• . THE NOISE NEWSLETTER � PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE NATIONAL ORGAIVIZATION TO INSURE A SOUND-CONTROLLED Volume V, No. 7 NOISE CONFERENCE UPDATE Program Notes The 25th Annual Meeting and Aircraft Noise Symposium of the National Organization to Insure a Sound-controlled Environment (NOISE) is being held July 26-28 at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, 1401 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA. Co-sponsoring this year's conference are the Committee on Noise Abatement at National and Dulles Airports, an arm of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, the first charter member of the �TOISE Airport O�rators Committee. � One new speaker has been added to the conference agenda beyond those noted in the June issue of the NOISE Newsletter. He is Jeffrey N. Gazzard, director of the Manchester Airport Environment Network of Knutsford, Cheshire, England. � Attendees at the 1993 NOISE conference in Irving will remember Mr. Gazzazd for his provacative and entertaining presentation criticizing the British Department of Transport sleep disturbance study. This year Mr. Gazzard will discuss risk assessment and safery concems azound Manchester Airport and other European airports. He will join Betty Ann Krahnke and David F. Carbone on the �nal session of the conference, from 3:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, July 28. Ms. Krahnke is President of the Committee of Noise .�batement at Narional and Dulles Airports, member of the Montgomery County, MD Council and Treasurer of NOISE. Cazbone is senior airport planner for San Mateo County, CA. �:�. Y ; JULY 1995 , Three proposals to manage tHe affairs of NOISE were timely submitted in response to the recent Request for Proposals issued by the Board of Directors� of NOISE. Representatives ofithe proposing fiims will be interviewed by the NOISE Executive Council starting at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 27 in Potomac Salon D of the conference hotel. The full Board of Directors will meet to consider the recommendations of the Executive Council at the conclusion of the conference at 5 p.m. on Fnday, July 28, again in Potomac Salon D. � j � The regular NOISE Board of Directors meeting will be at the conference hotel �on Wednesday, July 26 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Georgetown A&B. From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. that night there will be a reception in Potomac Salon A, sponsored by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authoiity. On Thursday and Friday conference sessions will be held in Potomac Salon D and luncheons both days will be `��n Georgetown A&B. ' . The Washington environmental and land-use law firm of Cutler & Stanfield is; sponsoring a reception in the lobby of their downtown office building at 700 Fourteenth Street, NW fro �m 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.. on Thursday, July 27. :I � July 1995 . . Fage two FOCUS GR4UP COMES TO GRIPS WITH - NQISE REI}UCTIC}N TECHNC)LOGY NEEDS A focus graup consisting mainly of general aviarion and rcrtorcraft industry representatives, but to which NCJISE was also invited, grappled for two days this month with the complex and sometimes tedious details of the existing and emerging technologies for mitzgating naise in propeller-driven aircraft and rotorcraft. The meetings were canvened by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to provide input ta a report ta Congress mandated by the FAA's FY 1995 appropriatian. The report is ta assess the state of the art in noise reduction technoiagy, To an observer accustomed to meetings daminated by representadves af the jet-powered air carrier industry who tend ta regard concerns abaut aircraft noise as trivial, focus gronp parricipants from the general aviation and helicapter felds seemed surprisingly open to the idea that no�sereducdonis asocialgoalworthyofserious attention. While they did not downplay the fact that present market forces offer no ecanomic incentive for expensive retrofits meant to reduce noise, particigants seemed to agree that new designs for prop-driven planes and rotorcraft �should andcanincorporateeffectivenoisereduction technologies. However, development of such technologies may have lagged somewhat behind that occurring in other transportation mades. Operadonal techniques fornaise abatementwere cited by the graup as one af the most effective and ecanamical ways of reducing adverse noise impacts. The focus group meets on July 11 and 12 at FAA headquarters in Washington. CITY OF BRIDGETON RETAINS E�PERT IN AII2PORT PLANNING City of Bridgeton Mayor Conrad Bowers has announced that the Ciry has retained one of the nadan's foremost experts on airport planning to assist in evaluating a new expansion proposal by the St. Louis airpart. Bowers is imrnediate past president of NOISE. � The Bridgeton City Council has approved hiring Dr. Stephen L.M. Hockaday of Consulting Services, Ltd. ta examine the altemadve layauts the airport is considering. Dr. Hockaday is �a professor of civil and enviranmental engizreering and former chair of that department at California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, CA. � Dr. IIockaday has warked on the design of airgorts throughout the world and specializes in issues concerning the most effective use af limited airport capacity. He has worked with and for the FAA on the desi,gn of man� nadonal air traffic control procedures and as a consuitan� at many of the largest airport projects in the cauntry, including the new Denver Tnternational Auport. , In retaining Dr. Hockaday, Mayor Bowers reaffirmed. Bridgeton's resolve to ensure that Lambert Field can be expanded without destraying Bridgeton. "We are convinced that an airport expansion which destroys Bridgetan is nat only disastrous for our City but is bad for the region," he said. "By hiring one of the world's experts in a.irport planning, we will demonstrate thaC Bridgeton is committed to finding a solution to the problem of airport expansion." Dr. Hockaday will be reviewing the S�. Louis master plan documents and will meet with Bridgeton City Council in the coming months to discuss his conclusions. The airport announced on 7uly b a 20-year preferred expansion pian that would add a third runway and require the buyoutof 1,500 Bridgton hames west of the airport. The price tag of the expansian wauld be $1.77' billion. The preferred plan is one of eight alternarives examined by July 1995 + w � � ; Fage three �nsultants to the airport. St. Louis has pledged to give ��tgh priority to lessening the trauma af moving the Bridgeton residents. Bowers has said the plan is "dead an arrival" and promised that Bridgeton will make sure the expansion is never built. . "The last time St. Louis attempted a similar expansion," he told the trade publicadon Ait�port Naise Report, "the Ciry of Bridgeton killed it by proving it was a bad idea. Qur city will again be doing all taxpayers a big favor" bY ensuring that the present p1an is not carried out. Recendy a S� Louis County Circuit Court judge certif'ied a request by ihe Carrollton Subdivisian in Bridgetan to pursue a class-action lawsuit against the airport. GARA.UFIS NAMED FAA CHIEF COUNSEL The �FAA has appointed New York attorney Nicholas Garaufis to succeed ��ark Gerchick as the agency's chief �nsel.,�.araraufis has been counsel for the presiderit of the y�rough of Queens in New York City'since 19$b. In this post he has sexved Borough President Claire Shulman as legal advisor, director of intergovernmental relations and aviation advisor. He has been a member since 1992 of the New York Area Aircraft Naise Mirigation Committee, which advises the FAA and Congress on measures to alleviate aircraft noise pollution in the New York azea. LC}NG BEACH ENACTS NC?ISE ORDIlVANCE The Long Beach, CA City Council has passed a madified noise ordinance estab2ishing a naise hudget for general aviation designed to accommodate expected use of the Long Beach Airport. The action comes after five years of disputes aver noise restrictions at the airport. The new ordinance ailows for significant increases in general aviation operations if other users, including scheduled airlines, remain well below their historic Ievels of usage, ;neral aviadon advisory committee will be formed to maacimize nse of the airport by general aviatian within the limits fixed by the ardinance. FAA TURNS DOWN PETITI(JN FOR 1,000-FUC}T COPTER MINIMUM , The FAA has denied a petition for a rulemaking, f Ied by a Califarnia citizens graup, that would have set a 1,000- foot minnimum altitude forhelicopters flying overcongested urban areas. � Homeowners of Encino, CA filed the petition claiming that snch a minimum altitude requirement would increase safety. Butin reje�ting the petidon, FAA Flight Standards Service Director Thomas C. Accardi said "it appears that, thepetirioner°s justificadons for theproposed (rulemaking) are not safety-based, but rather aie based on the desire to reduce noise caused by low-flying helicapters." "Theexistingrule," saidAccardi, `I has historicallyprovided" the public with the level of safety required for helicopter aperations." The present rule �establishes a 1,000-faot minimum altitude far fixed-wing aircraft over congested areas but allows helicopters to operate below that level if they can do sa without hazard ta persons or property on the ground. The FAA's Accardi said in the ruling that while a specific community may have valid campiaints about helicopter , operations and naise, "noise issues within a limited geographic region do nat warrant the promulgarion of a nationwide standard affecting all helicopter operations." ,� The FAA ruling came on June 8 and on June 29 Homeowners of Encino filed another petition asking the agency to recansider the denial ori the grounds theprevious process had denied them due process: The group said that no hearings had been held and rio input had izeen sought from the Nadonal Transportariori Safety Baard. The FAA did nat present a"reasaneti analysis" of why it denied the ariginal request, said the group. � Hameawners of Encino re rese �ts ersons livin south of P , P � Van Nuys Airport in southern Califomia who are bothered by helicopters engaged in nighttime sightseeing flights, rea� estate fly-bys, short business travei, and media use. They contend that the low-alritude helicapter flights aze dangerous. In opposing the petition, helicopter operatars countered that altering the minimum altitude requireme�t would actually make matters more unsafe. --�'' . ' . July 1995 ' � ' " Page four Reception Hosted by Cutler � Stanfield Thursday Juty 27, I995 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 700 Fourteenth Street Directions to 700 Fourteenth Street from the Key Bridge Marriott Via automobile: From the front entrance to the hotel (by the flags) tum right onto F� Meyer Drive. 'htrn left on Lee Highway/Route 29, which will be marked by a sign. Once on Route 29 stay to the left and follow signs for66 East, which will take you onto the Roosevelt Bridge. From the bridge go straight onto Consdturion Avenue. Proceed until you get to 14th street (you will be at 23rd when you come off the bridge) and turn left. After you cross F, about 2/3 of the way up the block there is an AG parking garage on the right. Our building entrance is diagonally across from the parking garage next to the Starbucks Coffee shop. The garage is open unti12:00 a.m. Parlcing is $7.00 for 2 hours. Via Metro (subway): � The Mamott has a shuttle that operates every 20 minutes, beginning at l0.after the hour, that takes you to the Rosslyn station. On the first level you can take either an Orange line train towards New Carollton or a Blue line train towards Addison Road. Get offthree stops later at McPherson Squa�. Head down 14th street in the same direction you are headed when you come off the escalator. After you cross H street and New York Avenue the building entrance will be just before the next comer, afterthe PMI parking garage. One way fare is $1.15. Via Cab: Cabs are plentiful at the hotel entrance. Fare will be around $7.00 each way (less perperson ifmore than one share). �y6 E i _�� ; N c' ,H O 1 - � . ,.: .-_ �.-.< ., �.,-.-. .,-., �«;�r..�> �� r . NOISE � L�_------- �� .- � � x National Organization to Insure a Sound-controiled Environment `�{'^'�� - ;� ' '� • i 9.w ; � � 1225 E e Street • NW • Suite 300 • Washin ton DC 20005 � �� ` '��". �'�� y g � �u� i s•ss �,% � a . ^,d .� � � ��. a ' � � n •HMETFA � , '-�"-`' G780551 ts95 ' : Tom Lawell City of Mendota Heights 1101 Victoria Curve Mendota Heights, MN 55118 $ti tf t) v+� -� j ( j ( (! j(!! �'ti't�. �a`�i."'. ` � 1 7{1:l3f12�:l1�ilt!#!f��i:��.t'I311�ilid�i7�li!!illJliFil?S1�!:£11�7 f4�� tisl MemCfersi�ip . 5�25.00 . . Mail check payable to Homeowners of Encino �o�oX��z�� Enc(no, CA 91426 Number 3 .� s.t� � �v� � �s �N�� National Helicopter Noise Coali1 �1 EWSLE"1"T Encino, Califomia F�A pElitES HOMEQWNERS OF ENCIl14�S P HELICOPTER M1,1i1M�M ALY11'�pE R�LE � Ni�MEaWNE OnJune 8,1998 the FAAilenied a petifion filed by Homeawners of Encisio that wouid tsYablish a 14QQ' minimuna .altitudc for helicopters flying over cangested areas. Hame- owners af Encina`s petition for a rule changa was published in the Federat Register on 3une 27, I994. It took one yeaz far ttie•FAA to proc- ess the petition. The petition was denied in a "baiterp2ate"ruling thatlacked sub- atance and depth, said Geiald A. S�ve'r, president of Homeowners of Encina. Si2ver condemned the slaw andinadeguate response ofthe FAA to his petition. He said that his graup immediate2y fi2ed a motian for reconsideration with David Hin- son, Admini,strator of the FAA, within the 30-day period allawed for re- consideration. This reopened the issue, and brought thc mattcr be- fare the FAA's tap a;dministrator. . 3iivar said that without a zule RS F[LE FQR RECO say that "...noise issues within a liiniCe�i'geographie t�gion do� not wairaataat the promulgation af a na tionwide standard affecrixig all heli- copter operationa." iNIS tS FAA �OilBLE SPEAK `4t's double speak, the FAA fails to provide communities with the too2s to cantrol 2ow flying he2icop- ters, while refusing to deal with the issue •at the national level," Silver said. `This fig,ht is far from aver. I the FAA belieues fhat it Can ignore the wishes of hundreds of thnu- sands of residents, Congressmen, and the Mayor af Los Angeies, it is � ► t (111HNC} R � � June 1995 ��oN FOR ►M�E-- QN • Write David FIinsoa, F'1!A Admiuistmtor, 800 Indepcnd- ence Ave., S.W., Wa�sh., DC, -- uige hirii to recanaider the de- nlsl, utd beglnt ttxe rule ckang�c proceasi ia Dockct 27371. Fhaae (202j267-3111 for info. iEditor's ttote: L7on9 k�sc iwpe on heilcopter � mini:n»raaliicttcles±Tliapi�ececlr.=�thelnicpro- vides � u��uKl :wifen� liasis for re�.�ansidCring f Utc 13niueoa•�seis ot lscicbzo ►�ile changc.� COYtt! 11PHOlfiS HEltCOPTEit �L1Gl�i il�SiBla"ilONS Afederal rule requiri.ng tourheli- �Q�g�„ cupters in Hawaii to fly at least 1,500 In the petition for reconsidera- feet above,the ground; prompted tiy tion drafted by Hameawners af aseriesofcrashes,wasupheldWed. by a £ederal appeats court. Encina, Silver claims Accardi's rul- Trie FAA regu2ations, enacted on an ing contairis numerous "iacts" that emergency�basis last fall, have damp• are erroneaus an8legal conclusions ened the lucrative tcrarist flight busi that •aTe Contrary to FAA rules. ness. The FAA• is considering modifiaa• k�rther, additional facts have tions in res'ponse to the extensive criti- emerged since the originai rule cism,someofitframtheNationail`rans- change specifying xainimum alti- chasige petitian was filed. This in- Partadon 8afety Hoard. ... tudes, the pubTic is unpx�otected from cludes the increasing number of fa- When the reguiaaons were passefl the noisc and safety hazards of lam ta2 heiicopier accidents nationwide. last September, there had been seven flying helicopters. At the present These are frequently eaused by low helicopter accidents and four deaths in time thero are no minimum alti- flying helicopters;that strike wires �'� Previous nine months, and another tufles far fxeiicopters. Pilats casi fly or that are conducting sightseein 13 accidents and 20 deaths in the pre- g ceding two years, the coixrt said. An- at asly altitude they deem safe, re- opetations at low aititudes. other non-fataf crash toak ptace dct. gardless of tha ttaise and ather Silver asked elected officials, in- 24, twa days beforc the rules taak ei%ct. enviroumtnffil 'unpacts on residents. dividuals and organizations to wnite �The FAA adequately cacplained the The petition filed by Homeawn- letters in support of his petition for basis for taking emergency action with- ers of Encina is supported by Con- reconsideratian. Letters ahould'be out waiting for public participaaon," gressmen$ei2tnsan,Betman, Waac- addatessed to: David Hinsoa, FAA said Judge Mary Schroeder in tho 3-0 man, LA Mayar Riordan, and daz- Adminiatratar, 804 Independeace ��ng. She' cited the FAA's statement ens of elected officials, munici.pali- Ave., S.W., Waahingtan, T!C 2Q591. ��t "volunYary measixres and existing tios and lzomeowner associations. Telephone (2Q2)267-3111. All let- regulations are insufticient to enaure Siiver'spetitian, was denied in a ters and comments should refer to safe air tour operationa in Hawaii" and statement written by Thamas C. Dociet No. 2?371. Silver asked tr'at the problem was urgenc. The sgency aiso reasoaabiy eac- Accardi, I3irector of the FAA Flight that a massive amount of letters p�� t a reqnixemeat of 1,500 Standards Service. Accarding to anrl phane caiis be made to Hinson, �. ��{�de;Yives piloks time to react Accardi, `The existirsg rule has his- te send a messagc. `The righYs and �� e�ageacy, �s�� p�zen. torically provided the public with concerns of those on the ground gers aad prepnre for a forced landiag, the 2eve1 af safety requfred af heli- matterasmuchasthaseafinediaor schroeder said. capter operations." He went on ta sig2�t seeing helicopYers." (Rc�xintert frai� Wrst 11�uaii T�xiH�•, 3f34(9� —� —� �lsase join us, and help with the eost of this maiiing and in aur ef%rts to limit helicopter and jet naise. ( ; s% i�'� 1V�.se! (s �N!) �Kd , � i � National Helicopter Noise Coalita.on (NHNC) E� � ✓ Yes, I want to help� C� New Member C1 Renewal � � ( Please make your ehecK for $25.4Q payable to; Homeowners of Encino-Noise � � Mail to: Pd Box 260205, Encino, CA 91426 t j �� Name � (- "'r I Address � � i � � City_ State Zip Phone f � • I L.._ __.__—_..._..._...^__.��__.__._..__— _�---� —_.__.._�___J Page 2 NHNC and STN! NEWSLETTER • � June 1995 FAA ORpERS tES1' FOR HELIQOPtERS Federal aviation officials imposed new restrictions and ordered de- sign changes Monday on two types of light helicopters in response to safety concerns. The Federal Aviation Administra tion also called for more research and flight testing for the Rbbinson R44, anewer model. The aircraft are popular with police departments and flight training schools. In January, the National Trans- portation Safety Board asked the federal government to ground the helicopters until experte figure out what caused four crashes that lcilled sev�n people in Germany, Switzer- landand the United Stateslastyear. In each of the four crashes, in- vestigators suspected malfunction- ing rotor blades, according to the N7'SB. In at least three cases, the blades hit the main bodies of the helicopters or sliced offtheir tails, it said. ` . (Reprinted from Otange Counry Reginter, 6/6/95) JOIM YS AMp BECOME ACTIYE111 Join NHNC/Stop the. Noiset by sending a check for $25.00 payable to Homeowners of Encino-Noise, P.O. Box 260205, Encino, CA91426. We need your financial support to pay for mailings of newslettera, and for the cost of postage, printing and telephone calls. Ourmembers work on your behalf by attending hear- ings, spea]an8 before groups, aad communicating with the media. All work is done by volunteers. This mailia� would aot be possible without help from resideab snch u you. The more moaey �ve receive, the more frequent our mailin�s, aad the p;reates nnmber of people we can reach. The NHNC/STNI Newaletter i� an oRicial publication of Homeowners of Encino. The mailing address ia PO Box 260205, Encino, CA 91426. Annuel memberahip in NHNC/STNI ia $25. The NHNC/STNI Newaletter is published periodically and mailed to members and elected officials: ��7 ; . , �iZ�tice— i The Los Angeies Board of Airport Commissioners � � WILL HOLD AN IMPORTANT BOARD MEETING ON � � � TUES., JULY 25, .1995, 7 PM�� 1 Airtel Hotel, 7277 Vaijean Ave., Van Nu�s 1 � If you live in the area, you should plan on attentlirig arid�speaking out! ' � � Over one year ago, the BoarrJ, of Airport;C mmissioners 1 � promised to address the� helico�dteF ribi�e prob/em. � .� • Deniand the Board pass a re�Qluti�n�establishing ' � minimum altitudes for helicopters! � �• Demand a stop to sightseeing and media flights! � � • Demand curfew hours on helicopter operationsi � � • Demand a Noise Regulation for heitcopters! � � Residents are affected throughout the Los Arigeles basin by � � Van Nuys Airport helicopter operations. � L��i SAFEi'Y A�ENCY ASNS FOR �I�H�ER RYLES OM SI�HTSEEING FLI�HtS More than 100 fatal crashes that ldlled sightseers on airplane and' helicopter tours prompted the Na tional Transportation Safety Board to seek tighter regulatioa of the rapidly growing air tour industry. "Americans enjoy the opportu- nity to fly ... over the beautifttl sights we have in Alaska and Hawaii and the Gulf and Tenaessee and Now York and other areas," safety board Chairmaa Jim Hall said Thursday. Special rules for flights over the Grand Canyon were imposed after accidents there, and safety has been improved. Similazly tougher safety rules were developed for Hawaii aft.ez two helicopters were involved in fatal accidents July 14. But regulation is uneven across the country. Tour operators are regulated under two sets of rules, with those traveling less than 25 miles &om a single sirport not sub- ject to close federal supervision. (Reprinted from Orange Counly Regleter, 6/2/9� �� ACINQ POLICE COPTERS MAY POSE SAFETY RISK City and police o&cials are de- vising a plari to gradually replace the LosAngeles Policc Dept's. aging fleet of helicopters amid growulg concerns that three of the aircr� are plagued by leaks, corroded wir- ing and radio �problems and pose a safety threat. The three choppers-which i�y over neighborhoods from South Los Asigelee to the San Fernando Valley-date back to the 1970'a end have each logged more than 32,000 houra of flight time, among the highut in the worlcl for their model. The three helicopters `�re becoming a liability" due to numerous a►ainte- nance probleme, which have also ham- pered the ability of air crewe "to do their ,job effectivejy"and have anated an'loffica safety iseue,"according to a memo writ- ten by a police official to City Coun- cilwoman Laui�a Chick. ... � Within the LAPD'e Aeet, however, only frve of the 16 choppers have 4ewer than 10,000 Aight houn, according to police officials. i�vo of the three choFr pera in question have Aown••more than 34,000 houn and the third.haa logged more than 32,OD0 houra..:.Lsat year alone, the AirSupport Division handkd more than 43,000. calla, was the first unitat�acene near�y 15,000 times, and was involved in 424 auto pursuib �nd 646 foot chaaee, according to police ata- �� r tiatica. � (Artiek ahortened, rcprinteA Qom LA 7tirties.6-3-9� S� il� N�! (S�N!) � ------ � —G��H �,�9 — f',,�� ;:��:��-�; Nafional Helicopter Noise Coalition (NHNC) •' ��:��'� C 2 l�+ ;- � ; �: ��;' -. __ 1 PO Box 260205, Encino, CA 91426 c, �; ; T. �_;,� ' t'w, �. : F�, ,' , ,._.. � c rb8.t?.4 . � Important Newsle�erlt! HELICOPTER MINIMYM ALT11'YpES pENIEp BY FAA MERTENSOTTO, CHARLES E. CITY OF MENDOTA FiEIGHTS 1101 VICTORIA CURVE MENDOTA MN 55118-4167 1995 • �, �.. � ��1�.��.l�l . �WS OC � ---� ---- .. . . , . * asc :.�e'c - : 4� �• r 11 2�� i' �• �s Y 1• j y'! '�' �/ � .-Z 1 1:�_� �. - x .� .? .:S sk'� r_ �..=.. :�: � • � � � � • �� 1' • � � � �• 1� � ' �� SYA.� . . . .. .. • �� Don Knox, Busine�s Editor — 892-5242 � �� anQe. tonSlnK- ti0n Qt 100! r./GM Jt. FRONT RANGE CONSTRUCTION ' Some ot the qrojects hefping lo boosl commercia! building by 24%. inuswu � ur,v�i,E ' ��.� \`. .2s s-� 9qppy�EiD �]6` Q �MON YVESTLM14'TEN WN[pT �� SOUTH SIDE � 1 Evolving SyS.ems �nt urwer �N�ioV conSWCtqn m MenCw+OffKe �Xk it / (irqpin aeW 1-25. ` 2. Park b�eaaows: L•s70�1.27. \ �. Memx �yncn. Me.�ewn. ` s. eneaaows naan,e•awce. oower «nter �� oert to vark neeaao..s. 5. Centenn�al Promma0e. xross Counry �ne Roac �rwn van� �eaao�.s. 6. aark Piace. C-t7G. acres f+een Dnve ano aa.r eneaao.+s D�ve COlORA00 BOULEYARD AREk i. Or0 CCkOniy CG�IH L3G gf80�i1c W1W "` b� Bwwers Sauare ar Cororaoo Bwa aro KCn:utky. now�rowN a. Hau ratn. :�:n aro wMon. �. Ocem loumr� .n Cencra• Tatte vauey. u�w000 �� RpCky M TODAY ~ YOUR �lol V� i DENVER N+^� ti� 6 t �� l ��'t1' � �� t:i .* � :�.,CJ,4: 'i. '. !. •Yr a'�' Y ..I �ti _ ,.�,� �a . :4: :`+� ; ^ _ �� tri"'] y,` �` ''f +i: �wY� %,�� ,fa ��`� _ ,��" , J "�.�' T.ti ,£E"3 '- +i-1 +;` y � '� ':?y ' ^ ;; ^i;,�. �s.Wc?,, _ r. ki . Construction of stores, �nrve: se near the proposed Park lants and warehouses �'��OWS shoppingcenterat C-r�0 p and lnterstace 25. soars249'o,offsetting • Fa�SNvsn«.�S�aer� softernew-homemarket � �-O"15"'�k°'°c«,us.a6u � \icCastin Boukvud. Paujects ei• Br lohn Rebcbook � cher on the dnwing board or ab rrad�� a�prov� on both sides o( Rac4�Maw+miu.\'�Rta/FstauEJ�ra �(�{aslinuC Genzyatcommercul ■+��?-��u�Mannmoviethe- buildingiscreating ; a�er. thousands of high-pay- : ■ Four mid•priced hotets with ing construceion jobs almost �00 rooms and an estimated that some feared woul� �'.'•lue of more than 320 million. disappear with che ■� 1 W.000-square-foot Home oomple[ion d Denver International ` l�Poi• Airpart, Coors field and Elitch 1 ■ A S27 miUion manufacturing (',��. � plant forQuantum Cocp [he ARaky.NaunwinNrunsurvey ' "��'slargestmanuBcturerof showsthegrowthisbeingfueled I ��P�terdiskdriva. ! by every[hing (rom so-alled "tkx A couple of miles south at the space"—hybcidsofofficeand IncerlakenOfficeParkinBroom- wuehouses—to"ategorykilkr" • ticld.morethanS100milliono{ rehil stores such as the Incredible I ccx�svuaion is on tap far Ihe next � �, � � �Ile. Page 30A - ,� • F� un News Mon.. �1une 5. 1'_ THIS WEEK 3DAY: Real Eslate DNESDAY� Smvl! Busine� JRSDAY: Ma�keting & Rd� DAY: Pe�soreal Computin� Hotr� N� /t�10W fion in QOumG. Dtntr� so. Fepsi Centu. Cenua� awtu vaney. 11. Fasnion Pavdions. eb^i 16m Strcet AAa#. 12. &ooks iower renowdon intn ��QN � � 13. Kin( Sooxrs waret+ouse HORTH � u. H«ne aooc w�ae. �wcu«� � �gs. � 1 AOOrtss 5001 Grant $t. Thomton. ss. taxs�ne noten ac u.5: 36 an0 McCas��n et�a. � I 16. IrtteApcken tqte� at 96th Avenue antl U.S. 36. i � 17. 64k offite-warehouse at 6N an0 k1tlWMU ' I is. soo-� a� �aN 19. Demer West v�nage. �-70. Corfa■ a..n fun �.a I �y.�,R.� 18 months, including a new incer- and a 55,000-square-(oot building �� s on line, rt keeps secnon at 96th Avenue and US.36. for Coram fieatth Care. ��'�." �d BiU DenWn, de- a 27-hole golf course. a 57.000- �ebper o(the pcopo.xd Denver square-fooc mnference centec a Offsets softer home market Fuhion Pav�7iona along the 16th 300-room fwtel. a 125.000-square- If thaYs not enough, consider Stree� Mall.'Ihe projat recenUy (oot ofCxe for Corponte Express y�ming Douglas Counry a[ [he � I $� BOOM on 40 •-- v ..`\ II - - ' �--r' �,� �.o cl� lrl'lou. nt�.in 1'� e�� June 6. 1995 �• •,k 35C (50C howo�.«e,2,.) � @� � � � � Airport nets nearly $13 mi�lion in first 2 months, more than doubling forecast. Page 4A sa r r,r �o:,t•.�..,na...e,.o iuex ,.,nco.tyv_ �� Deborah Goeken, City Editor — 892-5201 � �� D1� doubOe� expec�ed profit i� firsf 2 months Higher revenues, lower costs fatten bottom line for March and Apri] BYI4rkiFD+� Red�Alaulainl�m Sq� W.in. Denvu Incernational Airpott rtude more than twice as much money as the ciry expected duriny iu 6rst two montha The ncw airyort had nearly 513 million in ne[ p�ts in :vtacch �nd April, comparcd wich the SSS mi4 lion tlut fud been (orenst Higher tGVC/IIItS �71d �OW�(COSt5100011lII• ed for the heal[hy bottom Gne. "We've all been tryiny W pull in our belu" Aviation Managu Jim �t1.OtIQ f31d O� [�IG M7ICh illd Apn"� figures. Openting expenus �tomer ve�coes tax break Govemor says he killed bill because it looked like a last minute deal er o� �aaw . . . �b�n�.c�re�,.� Gmc Roy Romer suryrixd cria ics Monday by vetoin� a tax break [or Denve�s pro spotts teams that was pushed throuQh the kpisla- Ix5{DE Inter us.sPm� •�k HB 1071. RnenaW to«• which fouYht co pe0`�° ��' blunt a Suprcme °�"�1� Court rulinQ •��- that property '"��0^ Ux exemptions � Cobrad°'s on vernment � �i" �1� Und were iUa Gd NIO i ��' �5 I715G(t• property tax bill in the final minutes o( [he kgisu�urc's final day. Rnmer killed the hill mainly be- ause o( a public perception thac the deal vras done behind closed EOOtS. "1 think the bill was a Qaad-faith eNort on the part o[ [he kgisla- ture:' Romer said. "But the pas- sape of the bill, in the Iast minute o( the leg'�s�tive session, was in- tecprcted as a midnight dal, or w break, for wplthy and power- tulinterests. "Ilut was not my intention, and [ don't btlieve it was [he intention of the !eg '�slature." he uid. The penver Nuggets, who Ipb- bfed [or the biU as put of [heir eHort to develop the Pepsi CenteF said che veto would have no im• at DL4 ru� S22 million kss than budgeted. mosUy thmuQh ulary savings from �Iled jobs. DIAs toal revenues were 581.6 milGon, counang interest and the airport's 53 ticket nx. Expenses. including debt paYments to bond- holders. were 568.7 million tor the two-month period. Interest eamings ame in 532 million highe� than budgeted. The ciry• is earning h'�gher interest be- cauu i[ has millions le(t in the projec['s construetion account u the ary and oon[ractas neQuiate bill payments. DIA's finmcial per(ormance during March md April is outlined in the prdiminary o�id�1 sUco- ment fa this mon[h's 5295 mi'Uion bond s�k. Toul rcvenua fmm landing kes, rcau, concessions and other soutces at DU w� $$$p.988 higher than anticipated. Debbie DeMuth. DIAs 6nance dircctoS said narly all o( the rev enue is in ash (mm airlines, con- cessionaira and others. A srtull poRan tusn't been collected. in• cluding 5559.963 from MarkAir and a smalla amoun[ (mm Mexi- ana. Other revenue, compa:ed to w1uthadbeenbudgeted: ■ Contasions, kd by parlcing. brouYht in 53.1 million moce. ■ Landiny kes wue Sl.l mil- lion higher than budgeL ■ Rent revenue uas 52.6 m0- lion less tlun expected, due most- ly to Continrntal A'vlines' lase cutting its gue commitment in haU DlA BALANCf SHEET Unauoaea rcv�nues aro e.xr�ses a oe�ve� x+cematbra+ ti�oon ror MMNADn11995, attuN versus Mqgetetl: 41u+7 6udpled Rents 535.i31,3�3 537.862.500 Co�cess�a+s 12.931.765 9.85).798 U�WMg�ees 16.508.�35 I5.<09.500 Passengertax 7.137.319 7,032.202 uyerest'a+come 6.6�7.pg1 3.4a9.998 Ocner 3.1a6.184 3,837,270 TOTILLREVEHUE i1.6I2,�6D 77,tl8,2N PeaonnN. rtyhtenana 22.850.622 25.Oa5.700 Oebturvice a5.830.839 a6.867.156 TOTALO(PENSES i9,6i1,�i1 71,l12,/5i �ROfITS 12,951,007 5,53i,�12 S�arcr. CHf �f Deerer. Prelim�ry Offic'vI 5�.i<m�nt. Airpn Sy��aa Revenue GM�. �a � �. pact on their nego[iations with the city to build the arem. � Nugg ets senior vice president Gary Hunter said the bill wouWn't have guaranteedthatthe Nuggets WY �w ProDettY axa. The Nug- gets paY rw wces at McNichots Spons Arena bepuu it is a city 6aliry, and the team is negotiaang with the dty to continue [hat sta- ms at the Pepsi Cente� which the tam wi71 own. "So we will sdll have to 6nd a creative way to determine just what kind ot management ke or posussory incerest wc we'll have to pay to make this dal wock:' Hunter said. The "midnight amendmenC' [o the property ax bill would have stopped county assessors 6om mak�ng assessments on inse holders of gmemmen[ land. like the Demer spocts tams. DW concessanaires. and pthers. The Supreme Coun �ave assa- sors the naht W do w when in Apn7 it declared "unooastimtional long•standin6 PropertY nx exemp- tions foruse ot¢ovemment land. Rane� s�id the matter desmes areful examinatan, and he wants the legislature w address the situ- ation in us neat session. "We want (air and equiUble tax policy." Romer said. "We have to define what possessory interests are. What we wmt is kK everyone to be vatcd eguall�: and tor busi• ness deals to tx bii�lt on a consis- tent tax policy... 7'he court dedsion ame in a ase pitting Montezuma County officials against a oo-ncessionaire at Mesa Verde National Park. Gov ROy Romer vetces a bill Mor�day UWtwouW have provided a tax Weak for protessional sports teams such as the Denver Nug- gets. uw„kcaMe+ �eay raou�t..� �.e.n Cnunty officials had fought a five- ycarcourt batde ovu the matcer. F3ob Slough, an attorney fer �luntezuma Counry, said Monday he was "real plused" by the veco. ils bng u you Mave a ptopem' taz system, you have to be �ir to e�'eryone. and that wu all we were trYing co a000mplish.•. he said. Romer rsised the possibility of a special session on the issue, and he asl:ed that county assessors hold 08 on kvying tax assessmenu on go�ernmmt land until some leg- islative direction is rwched. --'�— ! •..i?2.; 4 •..Y.f,: : �e:�(. ': � �� t�• -. J �i :: ia ' � sosmx ci.oa� . �t �I�i�' �O�lGO�I Q��0�1� ' � RRI.LiAM 0. TAYLBR, Chairn:an 4f the Board and Pubiiahar ' � BENJAIrIIN B. TAYIAR, Pmatda�tt MATTHEW V. STORIN, Editor • H.D.B. i�REENWAY, EditAr. Edi2miai PaQa . STEPHEN E. TAYL4R, Ezecuti�x Y'ue,Preiident HELENT W. DONOVAN, Execuiive Editor RRI.LTAM B. HUFP'� Ezecutiva 'V'ue Prxride�tt GREG4RY L. MOORE. Manapiny Tditar Founded 187E CHARI,ES E,TAYIAR,•PubCirher187dd0P8 A�ILLiAM 0. TAYLQB, P'�M{thar 2ptt-1?GS WM. DAV78 TAYLOR, Pubtither IDdb-IY77 70HN I. TAYLAIte P�widrmi I�J•10�6 LALTREIZCE L WII�i$HIP� Editar t?55-1QQ5 TfiOMA$ WIN$E{IP� EtHfor' IDd3d�3i � 1' i � � �� _ Few neighorhaods have euffered so much at ttie hands of a big iaduetrial neighbar as East Bas- ton..�`he small aeracimme from whieli bemused Eset $oetonians couid watch the occasional bi plaa� take a� and Iand in the infancy of the air age hag .growa into a behemoth: Logan International •Air�wrt, the 18ih busieat in the world. It is a vital eeonomic engine for t�e region �►d at the aame ti�ne an everieoneiu»ing� en� organism �n that iwa dc�vonred East Boetan�e fairest sect�ans ta make w�y for the jet ag�e aad cansigned its neigh- bors tt� Itves of nafsy deaperation. Far mort� than $0 yeara Esst Bostonians and reeident�"in other �amaiunities along the• tlight pathe have fmmd their intereets iaampled upon, deasions made wlthout consultat�an, tao many Pibmisea unkept and too few trutha to�3. Sa it was on�q naturat that Ea$t $oaton activiste would en prEss alazm and conePstt when Maaepor�s board vgted Thc�d�}r ta ask the Massaehusetts environ- metttat affaira eecreta�y, iYudy Coxe, to indepeyr deaat�y verIfy the envimnme�al impact of a plan to build yet anotber runway ..; Masspurt makes a cred�le case for the rua- w�y. I,ogsn's iu�ays were oanatruct�i bapha� a�l,y, result�ng in an unbataueed pattern of flight operaf3one. When the wimd blaava from the aout,� �t or northeaet, uP to thr�e rumvaYs can be used. When it v�rs to ti�e nortl�vvest, as happene freque�' in wk►ter, ai�+�raft use is x�atricted b two xvm�*aye, and somet3mea only one. Takeoffa and landings la8 signi�cant�y. Art�Iv�t delaya rIppie acroas the cauatrs, flighta sr� held on r�w�ys wlth sIl the economic �nd em�ironmeatal caas� q�zences af etatianary planes b�ning fueL .�' Masaport wants to buitd � ehort zunway an the eoutii aida of the sir�wrt to accommodate commut- er flighta on northwea�wInd d�ya and sIIow latger jeta exelusive use af the ather ruaw�ye. This con- ��imation would allaar for ttozmal operal3ons in alt wu►da:' fihe plan aiso calls for taxiway improv� m'ents so ptanes cauid more eas�`ly mwe wh�le.on t�ie ground � Maseport clsims that all takeoffs anil landings u}votving the new runway would be over �vater ta i�unimize impaet on r�sidential ar�as. Aeeording ta a Masaport efxit�, the new runway would do noth- ing far the overatl naiae impact oP the airpor� Bui o�, days with light winds, the neav eonfguratian . .. ni �. ~ ��. :;�. ��: would allow conta�sallera to at� aar ta�e araund ao the annoyiag sounds are more eguitably ahared. Sharter idling f3mea aa runwaye wauld decrease air pallutian, the atady e�ya;' .. , Bnt ait these points are in cantentian. Some sap. alI a aew ruaway wquld do is attxaet more oom- muter fighte, wh%h would further elog the sirport and add idew safety hazards. ` • ' Otizers argue that "P� P�g" � �' sirlinea more for laading it►'paiads of ma�dmam congeation — is the ansaver and thst it aught tu be ta�ed before a new n�away ia bw1�. Peal� P�8 has been tried �before wIth aome saccesa and ahat�ld be considered aga� as a weapon agatnat cong�eation But these are limi� to how ]ate ar hmv ear�y travetera wiil warit to nse the airport, as weIl as li�tuts ae to how tduch. to periatize emall a�linea that aeed Logan to feed fnta the nat3onai and in- ternatioaa!_sir a;�te�ns.� Nor w�ntd Peak Prldng reealve the nortliw�est wlmd prableut. Ndgtiboriiood grongs aad the. comta have d� manded that befare buitding a n�w runw�y, Mass- pbrt shau2d live np ta its carnmitmente ta mif3gate the noiae, tra8�c and poIlt�t[aa px»blema that are the coets of Iiviug neact io an airport. �iC! othera ask what is to prevent Maespart from changing ita mittd about a ane-direetional runway to accommo- date aver�water takeoffa and la�dinga an�y. The currettt adminiatratton at Masaport has, dragged ita heeta on priar coinmitmenfia - Z�dy Coxe fa now charged with �roviding a reasoned asseasmeat of Maas�wr�s eant�ntion that a aew ru�covay w�7l�imprave on-t�me perforntance without degrading life in nearby* neighborhoods. This procese ehoutd provide an opporbu�ity for a publie. diiseuasion ott an integrated trauaportation plan for the next cent�• I,ogan�s Prmdmity io the dty has great advaatages, but that comes wi#� re- sisonaib�iti�s to'ita neighbore. �ithat ahauld be t�e limits of Logan as a tratisportai�on hnbi What can �be aone with other airports — xanscom, wmroes- tery Frovidence, the 5outh Weymouth Naval Air Statian — as well as high-epeed •rail ta New York2 Logan Airport is far toa important to the proaperi ity of Boatan, 14iassaehuaetts and Nev�r Engiand noi to consider ai�r transportation in ita totality rather than runw�Y by �runFray. i � �;1Ve�v '�rsey Loses ll�a�tle Over Air raf�c �"' Continued From Fage 21 Gongresstonai delegation forced the F,A.A. ta undertake .in 1990. • The Congressianal de2egation and a vigornias northern New Jersey or- ganization, called the New Jersey Citizens Against Aircraft Naise, re- �ated angri]y to the F.A.A.'s conclu- sion that their pian, which would have sent most Newark fligists over tiie ocean, was dangeraus and would only have shifted noise to the south- ern part of ttte state. "Bill Clinton went ta the Pacific Northwest and took an the timber industry to save the s�oited awl, but b� would not take cm the airline• interests nn an issue of deep concern to-the people af New Jersey," said Michael Schatzki, a Bernardsville management consultant who heads an arm af the anti-noise mavement, IVew Jersey Citizens for Environ- mental Research, which was aiso a part of the New Jersey effort. "This is nnt goai news," said 22eprasenta- tive Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, a freshman Republican whose weaiihy Morris County district un- derlies large sections af the fiight patterns the F.A.A. wants to keep. "And I must say, that.in my deai- tngs on the air noise probiem, the F.A,A. epitorniies the arrogance that many citizens feel some FeBeraI agencies have," Mr. Frelinghuysen contlnued. "'There has been tremen- dous anger an the part of rny constit- uents on this issue." In New York City, however, offi- ciais were pieased that the ayiation agency has evidently chasen to stay witt� existing flight patterns, and to reject an ocean raute that wouid have had ihe effect of pushIng flights from Kennedy International and La- Guardia over Broaklyn,,Queens and the rest of Long Island. Funds for Ph�lharmonic Study er'rnor�cwvo�xrr� . will examine all aspects of the pra n:' WHITE PLAINS, JUIy 28 — GoV, pased move, including issueS of traf- C:eorge E. Pataki announced a tic, noise from the nearby Westches- .-525,000 grant taday to study the fea- ter County Airport and the impact on sibility af creating a' summer hame ttte enviranment of Lhousands more for the New Yark Philharmanic. at people converging on central West- the Purchase campus of the State chester�'said Deborah Borda, eacecu- ttniversity of New York. . tive directc�r of the Philharmonic. The PhilharmanIc is one of the few "lfiis Is deiinitely not a fait ac, � major orchestras in the natian that compli�" Ms. Borda said. "We're not da not have permanent summer lookiag for.a soIutian�for #ive years. homes. • We're looking at a 50-year,' 60-year "Traditionally, the New York Phil- solution. This instituUon has been harmanic seasan has beea limited by around for 153 years because we —ihe fact #hat no appropriate auCdoor._,_ make decisions for ihe long run."— venue has been available;' Gover- The planners foresee an annual aor Fatatci � said in a statament an- music festivat with 25 concerEs each nouncing the grant, "Hopefully, summer, with seating in an outdaor we're helping to solve that prob- amphitheater for 9,540 people and tem." lawn sgace for- 10,d40. �. The grant fmrn the Empire State The Philharmanic � and Donald Development Corporation will fi- Kendall. former chalrman bf the nance ane-third of ths cosE af tha Fepsico Carporatian, witl each pro- study by a cansulting frm, Allee vide $25,000 toward the ;"I5,000 cost King Rosen &; Fleming. The sictdy of the study. "Ihe study is expected io • be compTeteci by Nav. l. — • � I "The Borough President has op- posed the ill-conceived and unfair ocean rauting propasal sinee it was initiated because, basically, it would limit the optians for air cantrollers warking at. L�Guardian and Ken- nedy," said Peter Managni, a deputy to C(aire Schulman, the Queens Bor- ough President, who strongIy de- fended the current flight plan for the region. "We look forward ta seeing the ocean pian ffnaily defeated." Aviation agency officials said their choices were'limited because of an ever-'sncreasing number af flights funnelling daily into the most constricted and congested airspace in the country. Accardingiy, the offi- cials chose ta facus on the Sol�rg modification as at least a bit of good news for abont i9,00Q residents of Scotch Plains and Fanwood, in Unian County, New Jersey, who would ben- efii by having about 194 Newark departures shunted,per dayto the south af them each day, leaving ihem to coniend with abont 24d de- partures from Newark. "We are naw on the fast track ta praviding relief far many of the state's residents" said Barry Valen- tine, ihe F.A.A.'s Assistant Adminis- trator far Pt�ticy. "In keeping with the Clinton Administration's open communications policy: we have worked closaly with the pubiic in addressing this extrememly com- pleac issue." Representative Frank Palione's Middlesex and Monmouth County district would be on the recelving end of the shifted flights and his anger yesterday illustrated how hard it is to lnsulate the most dense- iy �iopulatea section af the canntry � from jet noise. Mr, Pallone, a Democrai, sa3d in a statecnent that he was "strang2y op- poseil"',to the F.A.A. recommenda- Lion, and like every oiher member af the StaEe de3egatian wha candemned yesterday's report, he promised to keep Yighting the pian in Cangress. • Although the figitt over fiight plans has been mostly technical unti} t►ow — the'cItizens groaps even char`tered a?47 to try out the ocean � Existing Newa�{c departure routes Rejec#ed departure routes �'F.A.A, changes ' propased yes= terday NEW JERSEY Miles 0 10 YORK cvFsrcfr�srEr� �'; �e tS` � CONNECTICUT L,A QUARDtA SUFFC?UC ,�'�rRroqr °u�"s ; xassau .�,.,;�� . � route — it is likely to• turn political with next year's elections. Members af the anti•naise� movement said yes- terday that they had arganized a 30,OQ0-member vating block and po- titical action coinmittee that wau3d likely be Republican in nature, and intent on punishing President Ciin- ton for yesterday's regari: Mr. Ciinton carried New Jersey by 79,QQ0 votes in 1992. The movement wauld likely iry to recruit people like Barbara Fawley,= of Boonton, which underlies four sep- arate approach and departure paths into the New Yark area. She said yesterday that ihe roar of sirplanes' passing 4,OQ0 feet overhead has ali . but driven her indoors. • "I used tci enjoy watching the Mets games on T.V.; ' Mrs. Fawley said, "but it got so 1 couldn't stand listen- ing to noise from planes Eakin$ off: from LaGuardia on televisian, and then hear them again a few minutes later when ihey came aver my house." • Lo#tery Numbers Js�r28.183S New York Numbeis — 657 New York Win 4— 64Q8 New Jersey Ptek 3-�- 810 _ 111ew dersey Pick 4— 8030 New 3ersey Cash 5— 33, 25, 23, .29, 31 le�y27, l99S New York Pick ld -- 4, 6, lp, 13,1�,19, 23, 26, 2�, 30, 39; 93, 44, ' �7, 49L56, 58, 6G, 74, 84 . Connecdcat Daily --- 327 Connecdcat Play 4 -- 661? , �= I' .q..� • • ', . ,.. y . , - �"% . n , ,h% r ' � � . New .lerse .y _, : � � ��:. os.es Battle „L . �., .�.�� .._:.:,. s;::;:...:..w .:i:::�t ir Tra�c ��,:fs.� �On A . _� ;`t ii�� :2.J ��.� ,�:.j;��;�� , ` ��.� 2 . . tiy.��• (. �:\�.`: �:t,.$. ;\:� .4. ��.�:�t:�:\: tiS�{:: �:�:..�.. �.�, Z�Q . � ' F.A.A.�RejectsProposal �� ' To Alter FlUght Pa�terns �. By IVER PETERSON � ; New Jersey lost and New York City won 1. in the battle over aircraft noise with an all- i but-final decision by the Federal Aviation , ; Administration yesterday on flight pat- .;;. ._. - terns from the region's three major air- " • Y ' , ports, The F.A.A. rejected a New Jersey ' i': proposal to reraute air traffic away fmm �;northern New Jersey's suburbs and send ' •the planes out over the ocean instead. • The agency said the over-water routes favoxed by New Jersey citizens graups �' and the state's Congressional �delegatIon ;{ were too dangerous and, in any case, `' •wauld simply shift� the noise over. W the ''. homes of people on the Jersey Shore. ' •' Instead, the regulators recommended ? that the"agency offer only a's�ight modifi- � � cation of the current flight patterns, which • �� - .:,. _ ' ;were •adopted in 1987 as a soluUon �to . . , .. . . �.,.} .,, _�. , � . � � • � � growlrig airplane cangestIon over the New . • •� � ' - . • � � � � � York City region. The plan had the effect � of stacking `up low-altitude inbounil 'and � autbound air traffic over rural and sutiur- • i s, ban � areas o! northern New Jersey that � until then had been relatively free of � � ; overfligtits. ' . . � • • I�t If today's rec:otninendations becoine the : 5 � •�-basi�-for a final decision in October — and %:ti ' ,i:K�':.;;:,�,.'. ";��€ i;si'i �� ' �f' �;i �� (�;' : ; '��• "s'�#s<:`��:;�s# ;`'-'�' F.I�:A:�officials stiggested'yesterday •that . f � , . .• � .� � � '' only `a ser[aus change in •Federal pollcy �. _ r��. .s <,,. s<<, i;3?:•. ...:+•...:.�,�•,� ��...< .,:�i. �vould prevent that from haPPening — the . . .. . � . .�.. . . .�... � � ' `' • • • � � ! ,;�cur�ent flight rules would be modifed oNy . i �, slighily. The changes would invoive steer- '� ing'_l�l0 deparUn� flights from Newark . j � internatIonal, ab.out °� °third oi the � daily � total, away from their current path over .a. i ; Scotch 'Plains to a more soutt�eTly path , � over Raritan, ln central New Jersey. • • � r That modifIcation is 'called' the Solb.erg , � Niitigation Proposal, after� a navigational ��•beacon �at Solber•g, N.,T, near the town of � �'RarTtan.:�.: •�. .:• `.. . . '`• Tlie =recommendaUons were released , ' yesteirday in'tlie final� versibn of an envi- --�-�^�'"l'study report that New Jersey's C'ontinued on Page 24 �,.� `�':. • .,,•:�;i •f.,,��.; .�_;_��fF;�, ..�;•: ,1;. ;�,��• •��y=:;��: � . • . _ ;:i:}'ti••. �� YK�. . • .. ;+ ;•:�o> a tti.+ • i: u'�h�' :3. ...��: ,;�,;,`...:.•., i ..` a'•'t�y�� ; �;2��' : �<<.. ,' z, � .;�y��. 4 `` ., f� � ��='�.f ,�<�;,,:,. ,:��' �$'; �.,:�:r `��:��5�� <t�::'{?? 2 t�' �:�F:�`€ �:�s?#jF�'`;>;;'�<;r•�f,:%:��:2�� .. �} H!. a.-. ;t#�3� ��. ?� < <##�' ;#;;�;''<.�>;f:,•, , �'t "€;�`'2,:,,S�r•�.:�f�}�t; , 2t , #ti,�' , 'i �•P.A. �ca�ll� ' for I�o a��. . � :.: i: „:�..: .��: �;:: .j �..::: review ��.�..�: }'��.��h ,��: .. ■ LAGAN Cantinued from Page 29 both the land-side and air-side eac- - pansions." K.�ng said ihe decision wiil not change the review schedule, which couid take at least a year. Pe%r Koff, a lawyer for two anti- expansiott groups in East Boston, said, hawever, that ihe decision sig ; nificantly raises the bar that 1Kass- ... y port must elear to win construetian ' : appraval. "We're delighted to s,ee that EPA , has insisted fi,hat Masspart anci EPA ', ; must do more to carry out their envi- : ronmental responsibilities," Koff : said. "We're,gtad to see that Mr. De- ; V'illars r.as scen the need to considex both land side and air-side expan- ' � sion." . ; I.ast Thursday 14iasspori diree � .., k =.. . .. . ,, •, .. � . .,-. ; tors voted 6-2 to begin the environ- . . . - _ . - - .. mental review pro�ess for a runway • ; �r�pan�ion pragracn designeri ta cut :, delays at Lagan, naw among the top � � five airports in the nataon in terrns af : gr�test de2ays. � � The key proposal is Runway -. 14J32, a Iauding sf�p io run atoag � �. � �• the southwestern shore oP the• air- 3"� ^�, f3 :is2 .,,,;;,'�.�.::� �„� pa�, This runway would �#�'��;��;�'��'�� Provide :�<° s� >,:� K: �:�,:.,,;�t �<�:..�£ t;, ''� new takeoff and landing space for ' � � comrnuter planes, allowing big ' jets .� ta increase their t�se af an existing • Para11e1 runway that now has delays when both types .of. planes stack ttp . over i�. . . A similar runway � lan wa� stoAP� �Y aAAanents two deca�es � � �°' �'� I ' "The environrnental impaets of a new runway are potentially very sig � ni�cant and this propasal will, need ` to be studied " in a"compreher�sive" �� '�� environrnental impact statement, r, ��:" '•`•�.; �@��I��32'5 SSIt�. � � = .` , , Equally significant, officials said, is DeV'illars' insistence an �the inclu- sion in the study of land-based oper- ations at Logan. The airport has an- nounced a billian-dollar plan t,o im- prove ground operations while the � runway irnprovernents do nat yet ! � have a priae tag. ; � .. "I am concerned that M� ssport is as facusing on madei�zing ihe aarpart . at the expense of concerted'efforts to . reduce trdffic congestian coming to . and from the airport," i eVillars : wrate Tocco. DeV'�llars camptained that Mass- port had fuliy committed � funds to support a new parldng garage while it anty pariial2y fanded a new "peo- , ple mover" rail link between Mass- ; aehusetts Bay Transpar#ation Au- ' . thority facilities and Logan. . "I feel it is critical that �the envi- = ronmentai review . � � . - ... ' forts such as th� . . �. . clean fuel vehicle�, • ing and other pr which offer both in : and environmental � lars said. � King said some menfis are weIl und �"•��"2f;i�,:.ti"'>s;:. 8II P.�OI't %,1 1152 Gl f �, .#�;µ ��;�� n� ��. �y ��• • , . . . ,. . . .•�r>=� _ . . ,.. .. , . . . — . . ^�i9i:-; . , :.<t• . , , . . . . •t:s,.,;,.� ;:<,;�:�:i;:' 't'",, • . ",`�. . 4s.. f • -t, � By John M�ne GLOBE Sf AFF In a decision that eould �create hurdles ta expansion at Logan International Air- port, the US Environrnental Protection Agency has called far a wide and rigorous regulatory review of not jusi a new run- way plan but also publie tranapartatian to the airport. An expanded review that gives airport opponents opportunities to xaise objections could hike the cost' and siretch aut time needed ta make improvements the Mass- aehusetts Part Autharity says are essen .iial ta redueing cangestian and inereasing r safety at Logan. Massport plans ta file ap- In-depth studies sought on proposa�.s fo� r�unway additians, m.ass transit plicatians for stttte and federal envirari- mgntal reviews tomorrow. ' EPA Regional Adminiatrator John P. Dev'illara, who calted for tlie review, spe- ci�ir,alty raised the issues af a so-called peaple mvver and ctean-fuel buses to tra,naport the greater number of passen- gera anticipated at an expanded airport, as well as satellite park and-fly lota. , "The total of praposed new develap- ments at Lagan adds up to a renovated airport that will aecornmodate roughly twice the current passenger volume," De- Villara said. "This will undaubtedly affect regional air pollution and local noise im- pacts. EPA must insist that the full im- pacts af this growth be adequately evaluat- ed." DeV'illars' decision was contained in a letter to Massport Executive Director Ste- phen F. Tocca dated Friday. The Globe ob- �ained a copy from EPA officials. Althaugh Masspari afficials said they antiapated a wide review, DeV'ilIare' dec% aion was welcomed by airport neighbors, particularly residents of East Boston and Winthrog, who have been �ghting Mass=`' porG far years. They say expansion wi}��!i. brirtg new congestion, noise and pollution.�f�r. Airport backers i.nsist Massport has a_- new commitment ta work with Logan's neighbars, contending that the days are long gone when the agencY �S��.Y turned a deaf ear, even as mothera pushed baby carriages onto East Boston atreets ta block construction trucks. � �, "I think the common ground between us and EPA is very substantial,:: said Gor- . dan King, direetor of transportatian plan- ning and canstructian at Massport. "We agree with Mr. Dev'illars in his call for a comprehensive environmental review of L4GAN, �'age 35 ,.1�4 : ::Y �. . : `,!. - iY�a' " • �1 �.i•: i, j�.. . lf�+ � `�~•« •�'b �� ♦ •~•':"� • �� •Z`��;i�� I� ?�i "L�'::��+ ;'�• ��• • K �,,�'�� •�:2 � X .n• r.' . `•;•it�: .'1 a., ?:+, •.r Runwa�:�}�iut eould Fram,Page iA loaded internatianal aud long- haul flights. Richfield �l'ed suit against MAC and the Minnesota De= partment of Transportation in atate and federal court last April. The suit cantends the en- vironmental impact study can- '"' ilucted for �the xianway extension was inadequate. • Under the mediated agree- ment, MAC would be allowed to build the riznway extension im- mediately but withoui the taxi- ing rtxnways needed for its use glau. The runway couid be used far � long-haul sir traffiic and interna- tionai flights but nat naise redis- tribution in •i;he near fiiture. Those invalved in the media- �tiion would then conduct public � apinion surveys and review other noise mitigation methods, s said Larry Lee, Bloomington di- . rector af communiiy develop- � ment. � Each government agency .would contribute .up to $20,000 `to conduct these surveys. ' . � The meiiiatian team would �have until Map 1,1996 to unan- . unously agree to an alternative P •'t � . 1 ( be avertecl � � � recommendation for noise miti- �At10I1, �28 Sfi1C3.� I If ihe gronp can't agree, MAC � will submit its awn naise redis- tribution plan to{ the Met Caun- cil, he added. The Meiropalitan Council will then vote an` the xecommen- dation. � � � : • Alternatives� conld include. "speeding the constru.ctian time". table for the north-south run- , way; increasing funding for noise insuiatian; and dedica.ting a runwap's use j quieter Stage IIi aircraft. While Richfield would main- � tain its option to litigaie pending . the outcame of inediation, it would agrea not ta seek a re- � straining order to halt canstruc- P tion during this periud. ' � � � MAC and Richfield will also •` seek court approval�af a stap in their state and federal lawsuits. � '"7.`his pretty much gives , us ' what we're Iaoking for," Prosser � sai$. I � . Lea agreed but added'that it • .is anl� a temporaty remedy. . . "At this point; i�'s a fair solu- . tion," I,ee said'. `ihe question of ; noise mitigation is put aff in the : future. Tt�s nati a final solation by ' auy means." `1 � �':+ �,.�"'� . s.. :;��:..��ii :t� ,;:•;;:.�:'+� =;�,.�. .r•' Tentative agreement �:s � ;��:�,.��:; S,s.,:;s��r.�:�r:.� is reached ;:€.'i;<:�:€,f>•.,tis�:.�,sss,r�.*, �; ;�f,;�� .;,, ,.>., '..;�,?,:, � . � . : � ` , . . . . . . �� on runway City Councils vote on proposal By Mike Westholder Staff Writer A tentative agreement over controversial plans to extend � runway 422 will go before four city councils, Metropolitan Air- ports Commission (MAC) and , the Met Council for approval. Af�er weeks of inediation, of- ficials from Richfield, Blooming- ton, Eagan and Minneapolis and MAC ironed out an agreement July 19 that would allow the es- tension to be built but delay its � use a's a tool for noise redistribu- "-' tion. �� ' ' The Met Council initiated the mediation after Richfield filed auit in April to stop the $20 mil- � lion runway project. That suit would be temporarily shelved as • part of the mediated settlement. If any of the parties reject the � agreement, "we're back where ,;: .•.�>.;3>:i�3`'i'`i�' � �.:;;;: ;:;;;:.;�i: � <fi2,;;;��;%>3;; ; #:>tiit i's;';;q;>'s;•`:'?i?r{�t:si#.' .. , . . .. •��,�, .;;;;::> � °:t;� we were before," said Jim Pross- er, Richfield city manager who participated in mediation. The proposal was e�ected to go before the Met Council, and R.ichfield and Blaomington city councils Monday. Due to Sun- Current deadlines, decisions from those bodies were not avail- able for this report. The dispute has centered around the runway-use plan for an extended 4-22. MAC wishes to use the runway to spread air . : ;�;r . >s; ; ,,;. .. ' ' • �. � . . . .. . . . ' ' •>•: .; �• �. traffic noise over southern Rich- fi�ld and northern Bloomington, away from southern Minneapo- lis. While MAC and Minneapolis officials support the plan, Rich- �eld, Bloomington and Eagan city councils oppose the use plan but not the extension. The extension would create an 11,000-foot runway to be used in emergencies and by heavily l RUNWAY: To Page SA � i c c � . : CITY OF MENDOTA HEtGHTS MEMO August 4, 1995 ; TO: Airport Relations Commission Members FROM: Tam Lawell, City Administr t SUBJECT: Discuss Letter Received From Narthwest Airiines Regarding Noise Abatement Departure Profites ar�d NDCARC Draft Le#ter of Response DISCUSSION � � 1 As the Cammissian is aware, the Northern Dakata County Airport Relatians Coa(ition {NDCARC} recentiy sent a letter to Mr. John Dasburg of Rlorthwest Airtines expressing aur concern over saon to be implemented departure procedures affectmg aircraft a(titude/c(imb rate. A copy of that June 1, 1995 tetter is attached by way of background. I !n mid-July a response was received, not from Mr. pasburg, but from NWA's Manger, Airport Operations, Mr. Mark Salmen (see attached}. �This response was discussed at the NDCARC meeting hetd on Juty 19, 1995 and it was fihe consensus of thase present that NWA's response did nat adequately address our identified concerns, tt was agreed that a subsequent tetter should� be sent and the NDCARC is currently in the process of preparing that letter, a draft of which is attached for your review and comments. ACTION REQUIRED ' The Commission should discuss the attached correspondence and offer any suggested commenfis and/or revisions. This matter wi[I again be discussed by the NDCARC at their upcoming August 16, 1995 meeting, at which time each city's comments wil( be considered. �� - � June 1, 1995 � NORTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY AIRPORT RELATIONS COALITION Cities of Eagan, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota, iJir. .iui�r� i-i. uasburg Northwest Airlines, Inc. 5101 Northwest Drive Eagan, MN 55121 Dear Mr. Dasburg: Mendota Heights and Sunfish Lake As communities located southeast of the airport which receive well over half of all noise impacts from Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport, the cities of Eagan, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota, Mendota Heights and Sunfish Lake are cooperating on issues in which we have a common interest. This group, known as the Northern Dakota County Airport Relations Coalition, has identified a number of common ,concerns we would like to see addressed. The first of these concems relates to "distant" and "close-in" departure procedures as outlined by FAA Advisory Circular No. 91-53A. We understand that Northwest and the other airlines are in the process of developing these procedures and that they will be presented to the Metropolitan A�r�� C�+mrn��s�!+n �nd the !M!�*�oa�litan �ircraft Sound Ahatement Council for implementatio� at MSP by runway end. For aircraft departing MSP to the southeast, a modified departure procedure would greatly lessen the air noise impacts currently experienced by the residents of our five cities. As Mayors of our respective communities, we unanimously request your cooperation in developing and testing these departure procedures which promise to improve the noise environment surrounding MSP,,� � �_ . Mr. John H. Dasburg June 1, 1995 Page 2 We look forward to actively working with you on this important endeavor and we await your reply. For convenience, please direct your reply to Mayor Egan at 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, MN 55122. i Sincerely, , � „� ��"� � � `�.�v��—� . � �� _:.==:�.o.---,��: � .._.. I `�— � Tom Eg� Charles Mertensotto , Jim Toy � City of Eagan City of Mendota Heights City of Mendota i � � e A ins � Frank Tiffany ; ity of Inver Grove Heights City of Sunfish Lake � . i .cc: Mr. Sandy Grieve, MAC Chair I Mr. Bob Johnson, MASAC Chair . ' Mr. John Kern, NWA VP-Aircraft Operations � d �II . _ :��-= 07-1?-95 01.30PM FP4M CITY 4F EAGAN T4 9452$940 P002/044 : � � ME11lIQ —cr[y of eagan � � . T0: FRaM: NORTHERN DAKOTA couN�rY atRPORT R�I.ATlONS CoaurioN ASSISTANT TC} THE CITY 1�DM(KISTRATOR HOHENSTEIN DATF: JULY 17, 4995 SUBJECT: NOlSE A6ATEMENT DEPAR'�Ut2E PR4�IE.E - R�SPaNSE T8 COAE.ITIQM CCIRRESPONDENCE Attached you will Grtd a copy o1 tt�e tetter teceived irom Narthwest A.irlines c�nceming noi�e abafement depariure profiles. ! woutd suggest that we discuss the c+�mpany's rc3panse et nc��t Wadnesday's NDCARC tneeting. AS y0tt Wltl C10t�, Nortnwest referred fhis maftcr fo Mr. Selmen wha indicates that depar[ure profiles are !n ptace and that me oniy remaining issua is for MSP to select a procedure by runway end. Since they indicate #ha# ttte procedures have been in use a# MSP since 1994; ihe first time tttat has been indicated to my knowisdge, i# may expi�in some of the 14wer and mare obtrusive d�partttre procedvres which have been sited by many af our r8sidents. i f anticipale ttt�f we Catt dlscuss this more fulfy on Wednesday. Ptease share'this with your respective counc[!s and nolse ab�tement groups as appropriate. . As s ant ihe City Administrator O�ttschment .�DHlvmd 0 . _: _--_:` 07-1?-95 01:30P� FRO� �I�'Y OF EAGAN NORTH'4A�ST � A I R�. I N E S pcgartinent Numhcr N7310 Northwest Airlincs, Inc. �>It)1 Nc�rchwrat 2>ri�c Sc. Paut Miti 55i ! i-�034 July 7, 1995 The Honorable Tom Egan h+layor, City of Eagan 3830 Pilvt Knob Raad Eagan, Minnesota 55122 Dear Mayor Egan: fio 9�52$9�0 poo3lao� The l�iorthern Dakota County A.irport Relations Coalition letter to Mr,: John H. Aasbur,�, dat�ri Jt3ne l, 1995, has been referreci to me for responsc. � . No�thwest Airlines has histotzcally hP.en a front-runner in the dev�Iop�nent and implementation vf naise abatement techniques which irnprave the noise environment in surrounding airpart communities. � In the 19'70s, Northwest Air'lines was instrumeRtal in the development and implementation of the first rioise abatement departure profile. Again, in the early 1990s, N'orthwest � A.irlines � was an active participant in the development of FA.A. Advisory Circular 91-53A, Noise .Abat�ment Departure Profil�s, and was one Qf the first air cazriers to implemet�t new, FAA. apgroved, noise abatement depar€yre prof les (NADFs}, which were hased on the guidelines of this advisory circular. ' � Narthwest Airlines prides itself in operating as a good neighbor. Tt�is Nor.thwest's eorporate poticy to eomply with naise abatert,�nt policies and praccdures to the fullest � extent possible, consistcnt with the safe operadan of the aircraft. Since January 1, 1��4, �lortnwest rlirlines nas h�.d FAA approvcd, closz-in and clistant community NADPs in use by its enkire fleet of aircraft. These procedures have been, and' continue to be, used at Minnea�c�lic-Sai.nt Paul Internatiot�al Airport (MSP). ' � At MSF, the iVletropolitan Airporis Commiccion {MAC}, through th� Mat�opolitan Aircraft Sound Abazement Council {,MASAC} and th� MASAC 4�Serations Commattee, will be evalt�ating the benefts vf the close-in communify anid di�tant contmunity NADPs, to thvse communities impacted by aircraft noise gen�erated at ,� MSP. The f�nal determinatian for assignment of a specific NADP for, each q�' 1vISP's runway ends, wilI be made by the MAC, not the air carriers who use thz air�c�rt. The MAC's final d�cision will be based on the recommendat�on received frc�m : -- n f MASAC. � � � 3b4L WQc� . �— , � I � KPtT7tWRLT i �� • 0?-1�-95 01:30PM FROM GIfiY QF EAGAN � � The Honorable Tom Egan Page 2 � Juiy 7, 1995 �0 945289�0 poo��o04 � u All cities in your coalition, except the: city . af Mendota, have represent�tian on MASAC. Additionally, the cities of Eagan and Mendata Heights have r�pre.sentativ�s who are active on the MASAC Operatiores Committee. I would recommend:that since your coalition has significant represencation on both MASAC and th� j MASAC Operations Committee, that all city a�d coalition input. which may be:useful in formulating MASAC's recommendatian to the MAC, be forwarded to: MASAC through yo�r �ity representatives. Piease contact me with a�ay questions re,garding Nprthwest Airlines' noise abatement pc�licies or procedures, ' ' _ Sinccrcly, �� Mark J. Salmen IVianager, Airport Uperations cc: R.. Anderson J. Dasburg C. Foushce S. Grieve D. Jacobs R.7ohnson r. Kcrn a -- ---.'_ ' Q7�=25� 95 Q3:31PM . _ , . . z . � � TO: ;: ` FROM: FP,4M Cl2'Y 4F �AGAN of eag an TQ 9Q528940 'I! �� NORTHERN DAKOTA CdUNTY AtRPORT RELATIONS� COALI710N 'I ASSISTANT TO THE CITY A�M[NISTRA70R HdHENSTElN � : DATE: JULY 24,1995 � SUBJEC : NOlSE ABATEMENT DEPARTURE PR{�F[LES - DRAFT RESPC}NSE f i • '� � Enclosed au wili find a d�aft of a letter far your cor�sideration regarding noise aba�ement departur profites as was d�scussed at !he last NDCARC me�ting. Plaase review it and : mark up ny suggested changes and reiurn ihem #o me. I am uncer#ai� as to whether ; we came to any condusion on who should sign ii. Please inctude feedbacEc on #hat as ; weil. Th nk you for your attention ta fhis matter. i� i , : : Assi ant ; Attachme : ': JQHJvm:ti � • i _ i a the Ci#y Administrator 07-25-95 03:31PM FRp� CITY OF E�GAN ,, I �� . � � � _ ; Date `��, V i MANAGE ' NORTHI� ; N7310. � 5101 N ; EAGAN.� ' Dear �: , AIRPORT QPERATIONS ST AIRLiNLS �RTHWEST DRZvE MN 'S5121-3034 . Saimen: TO 94528940 DRAFT P003 Thank ou far you letter of Jul'y 7 regarding issues about noise abatem nt departure`profiles raised by the Northern Dakota County Airpor Relatians Coaliti.on. The process whi.ch �ou outlined for airpor selection of departure profiles is extremely helpful and Coalit on citxes intend ta participate in it. The pu os� o£ our initial letter was to discuss the a�Eumptions of the pr files themseives, rather than th� process, however. When Adviso y Circular 91-53A was being develaped, many of us believed that 't wauld represent an opportunity for air2ines to bet�er uta.liz noise compatible azeas, such as the carridor at MSP, to the benefi of distant communities and neighborhoods down range fram airpor s. As such, we had expected that the preexisting Northwest noise batement departure prefile would be designated as the close- in pra adur8 and that a ne� di�tant proaedure uould be develaped and an�lyzed. we re lize that the purpose o� the Advisory circular i.s 'Co standa dize and reduce the number of departure procedu=es around the Un ted States, We do believe that there are probably means of better using �Che performance of aircraft, especially Stage III aircra t to get noisy operations �p and away fram residents in areas hQra noise compatible land use present� the opportur�ity of reduci q impacts fo= substantial populations. As a consequence, we ask th t NarthWest revisit the assumptions on which th� proposed distan and close-in procedures were designed and that we be invoiv d in the review proces�. � Wa ut�d rstand that s�here naise compati.ble land use dc►es not exist, ' there s benefit i�n a noise abatement departure procedure like that used y North�rest for mor� than tven�y years. where noise � compat ble land u�e is available, such procedures may ac�ually � underu ili2e the noise abatemeant potential af th�se uses and result '• in ai era�'t being unnecessarily law and intrusive when they i inevit�b2� .need to leave the noise compatible area. Gett � asa� ` it an and keeping aircraft higher is likely ta reduce the ►n impacted by naisa and reinforce Northwest�s reputation t-runner in the use of noisc abatement teahnique� and make :n better neiqhbar to aIl of the communities it serves. .. . ---:. i �-`.,07=�25-95 03:31PM FP,OM CITY OF EAGAN T4 94�2$940 P004 � . G . � I ; � r . ` We lo�o forward to discussing this matter more fu21y. For your ' conven ence, you may again direct your reply to Mayor Egan, City of : Eagan, 3834 Pilot Knob Road, Eagarif MN 55122. ,� • sa.ncer� Mayors • cc: J< . S< I t � i 1 �-Y r ilasburq, NorthwQst Airli.ngs Grieve, MAC ' t Johnsan, MASAC � 0 .: ; CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS MEMO August 4, 1995 �', TO: Airport Relations Commission Members FROM: Tom Lawell, City Administ SUBJECT: Discuss Draft MSP Environs Community Protection Con DISCUSSION :pt Package At our last two meetings we have discussed the work of the Metropolitan Council as it relates to the Dual Track Airport Planning Process, and more specifically, their on-going analysis of the economic and land use impacts a decision to expand MSP in its present location would have on surrounding communities. Since early 1995, the Metropolitan Council has been meeting with interested cities and state agencies to formulate what has now become known as a"MSP Environs Community Protection Package". A draft version of the package is attached for your review. I I, To make many of the mitigation tools described in the package possible, special legislation will need to be adopted by our State lawmakers. Some of this legislation would likely have to wait until a decision is made on the Dual Track Airport Planning question, but other tools described in the package may make sense regardless of the Dual Track outcome. j The next meeting of the Met Council/ Communities group discussing this issue has been set for September 14, 1995. By that time each City is to have taken this draft package to its City Council for comment and approval.) Prior to taking this package to our Council on September 5, 1995, I first wanted to allow the Airport Relations Commission an opportunity to provide input on thie package. �, ACTION REQUIRED I � Review and discuss the draft MSP Environs Community Protection Package and provide comments or suggestions you would like passed along to the City Council on September 5, 1995. � _ . _— �I � , � < <. MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL AIRPORT ENVIRONS COMMUIVITY PROTECTION � CONCEPT PACKAGE--DRAFT Clarion Associates July 12, 1995 , DRAFT INTRODUCTION The Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP) Airport is widely recognized as being one of the primary economic assets and engines in Minnesota. Not only does it provide substantial direct economic benefits in terms of jobs, but it is a key link for the state in an increasingly global economy. The state legislature is cunently studying whether, if MSP is to remain a smoothly functioning, modem and competitive facility, it should move to a new site in Dakota County or remain at its current location and expand. A decision is expected sometime in 1997. It is clear, however, that even if MSP moves to a new site, that move will not take place for up to 20 yeazs given current capacity and projected demand. While the airport obviously has many positive benefits for the region and state, it is also apparent that it has significant impacts on the communities around it. Noise impacts are always the first issue that springs to mind, but in reality there are others of equal significance--safety, ground traffic, fiscal/taac base impacts, environmental influences, and effects on properry values and overall community stability. Most airport-impact mitigation efforts focus almost exclusively on noise--and the Metropolitan Airports Commission has established a good track record with its noise insulation and property buyout programs. However, it is becomi.ng increasingly obvious that because of limited federal funding, the noise mitigation programs are limited in their outreach. Moreover, if the airport is to be a good neighbor for at least the ne�ct twenty years, and the vitality of surrounding communities is to be maintained, these other impacts need to be addressed. Simply buying property and teazing it down or insulating existing houses closest to the airport is not enough. Airports aze dynamic facilities, at least if they aze successful. Operational requirements are constantly changing and new runways and other faciliries need to be added from tune-to-time. Thus mitigation efforts at MSP must also be dynamic, continually changing and being adapted to respond to changing airport impacts. At the same time,-steps need to be considered that will prevent any new incompatible development around MSP that would hamper its efficient operation in the long term. To tackle these issues, staff representatives of the Metropolitan Council and the Metropolitan Airports Commission have been meeting informally since late 1994 with representatives of local governments that are"located in the viciniry of MSP. These include Bloomington, Eagan, Mendota Heights, Minneapolis, and Richfield. The group's primary goal has been to identify and explore tools that can utilized to address MSP impacts and to enable communities in the airport environs to take the initiative in dealing with them.l In essence, these discussions have focused lA summaty of the operating principles adopted by the group is attached to this document. -- �— ' _..--� � i � � �� L�I�A�T � � , on how to make the ai.rport a better neighbor and to ensure the continued vitality of surrounding neighbarhoods and businesses. Reeognizing that tius effort was a two-way street, the group also examined ways to prevent new incompatable develapment that rnight adversely affect the airport. �� During 1995, the group has examined a wide range of taals and techniques and ;has developed a mitigatian package that the group recommends the legislature consider regardless of the decision regarding location of MSP. This package includes several of the most promising approaches zdentified over the course of six months of study and deliberation: � s Comrnunity stabilization techniques such as property value� guarantees, ta7c credits for housing revitalization in noise ampact areas, acquisition of incompatible land use prior to deterioration. � • Community revitalization �approaches such as tailored tax increment �"inancing districts and community development banks. � Incentive programs similar to those commonly used in sitixig large facilities to pravide offsetting benefits (such as neighborhood recreation centers) to a community or neighborhood. These would include iincentives from private firms (e.g., the airlines, car rental companies) as well as from public agencies, �� i � s Airport protection measures such as improved local land 'use contrals to ensure that developments that aare incampatible from a',noise or safety perspective da not occur in the airport environs unless mitigation measures are undertaken. i � The group also examined the issue of where such tools and incentives might be �made available. While airpart impact mirigatian pragrams often are confined ta areas affected by� a certain levei af noise (typically with the so-called 65 Ldn contour), the graup believes a convincing case can be made that the impact area should not be so narrawly defined. When homes are demolished within a 74 Ldn noise contour, the impact an the avai�ability of affordable housing may be significant tliroughout the entire community. Likewise, their may be a significant effect on a community's t� base. Qf course, airport e�cpansion can have a range of other significant imgacts on a community, for example, major changes in tra�c levels and patterns. Consequently, the recommendation here is to make unpact mitigat'ran tools available to any commun'riy �vithin which lies a specified noise contour (e.g., 60 Ldn) plus any area of that cammuniry witliin. three miles of the noise contour. NEED FURT�:[ER DISCUSSION OF IlvI�'ACT A�REA ISSIJE. 2 ...--'" � DRAFT SUIVIlVIARY OF MITIGATION TOOLS AND TECH1vIQUES Communitv Stabilization Communities across Minnesota and the United States have used a variety of programs to help stabilize and revitalize their neighborhoods and commercial areas. For example, in the airport area the City of Richfield has undertaken an innovative housing development program to stabilize neighborhoods azound the airport. Similarly, the City of Minneapolis has utilized programs such as the Family Housing Fund to renovate deteriorating housing. However, these programs are limited in scope and do not address other key community stabilization issues. Property Value Guarantees Where landowners anticipate that their properties will be adversely affected by noise from airport operations, they may perceive a threat to their properiy values. This perception may lead to a pattem of flight from the neighborhood, thus lowering values, damaging the integrity of the area, and rendering the area unstable and vulnerable to disinvestment and an influx of incompatible land uses. Additionally, perceiving a potential loss in value of their most important investment, some owners may strongly oppose any airport expansion that will affect them. Experience in the Village of Oak Pazk, Illinois, a middle-class suburb of Chicago, demonstrates that local governments can bolster confidence in an area of potential deterioration by providing guarantees against properry value depreciation.2 Oak Pazk utilized a properry value guarantee program to stabilize a racially changing neighborhood. In brief, the program worked like this. Owners of eligible single-family residences submitted an application to join the program with an $90 application fee which covered the cost of an appraisal and administrative expenses. If after five years the homeowner sold at a price lower than the original appraised value, he was entitled to be reimbursed for 80% of the loss, assuming the house had been maintained adequately during that period. If substanrial improvements were made during that time, a reappraisal was possible. Also, if the properry could not be sold on the open market, then the owner was eligible to have it purchased by a village-established Equity Assurance Commission. Oak Pazk believes the program was successful in calming fears of properry value loss. While over 160 homeowners initially joined, less than 60 properties remain in the program. Interestingly, no claims were ever filed for reimbursement. Taday, the village has successfully integrated and remains a desirable residential community. Emulating this concept, local governments around MSP should be authorized to establish a ZFor a more detailed description of the Oak Pazk program and other community protection tools, see the report attached to this document. � I �� DRAFT program that pledges to reunburse landowners for losses in properry value caused by airport operations and 'unpacts. Backup funding might come from the state or the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The local govemments would provide such reimbursement upon the landowner's sale of property. Where owners are unable to sell their properties, such progranis might require local governments to purchase the properties in fee simple at fair market value. Participation would be optional for all property owners within a designated eligibility zone (such as a noise overlay zone). Preferential Tax Programs To encourage citizens to continue to live in an area that is under some form of :al or social stress or to move to such areas, states and local governments across the United States have adopted a variety of talc credit programs. For exa�iple, the State of Minnesota recently adopted an urban homesteading prograin that authorizes the Metropolitan Council to designate urban revitaliza.tion and stabilization zones that are in transition to blight and poverry. Any person buying or occupying a home within such a zone is eligible for an exemption from 1lZinnesota taxable income for up to five years (up to a limit of $15,000 for married individuals filing a joint return) in specified circumstances. I ,I A similar tax credit is offered by the state to encourage people to live within a short distance of a transit station, the goal being to support more dense development near transit stops, thus helping to justify their e3cistence and reduce automobile use. This transit locadonal tax credit can amount to up to % of taxable state income. NEED MORE INFORMATION ON THIS. I . In the context of the airport area, such a tax credit might be geared. towards trying to keep existing residents in place. Thus the credit might be offered to all persons who ha.ve lived 'in a designated impact azea for a specified period and who continued to do so. If the person moved out of the area within a certain time of claiming the credit, a portion of the talc credit might be recaptured. �, Housing Revitalization Programs ' �, - As noted above, several of the MSP-azea communities have undertaken aggressive� and innovative housing revitalization programs. However, where these efforts involve direct government action as they do in Richfield to purchase deteriorating properties, they can be quite costly for local jurisdictions. Experience with programs like the "This Old House" rehabilitation tax credit program in Minnesota, which provides a tax write-off for owners who make unprovements to homes over 35 years old, (ADD CITATIOI� and similar initiatives in other states demonstrates that if individual homeowners can be enticed into spending their own funds�, government expenditure can be significantly leveraged. Thus the state legislature should consider replicating such a rehabilitation tax credit program for homes in designated airport-impact areas, tailoring it 4 --- : �I �. � . � I c `�� DR�►FT to be more effective by reducing the age limitation to fifteen years instead of thirty five and thereby encouraging renovation of a wider range of housing. In the same vein, experience demonstrates that private invesiment in housing can be greatly encouraged with a modest reduction in mortgage lending rates, down payment requirements, reduction in closing costs and similar approaches that reduce initial investment and carrying costs for prospective homeowners--especially first-tune buyers. As applied to the airport area, special lending programs embodying these concepts, in addition to those already in effect in other areas, to encourage more aggressively first-time home buyers, thus helping to stabilize the airport-area neighborhoods. . _ Housing renovation revolving loan funds have likewise proven to be useful tools in broader community stabilization and housing preservation programs. Typically, local governments create low-interest loan rehabilitation loan funds for iiesignated areas (e.g., an historic district). Homeowners in the district can borrow funds for rehabilitation at below-mazket interest rates, thus encouraging investment of their private dollars. Payment can be made over a specified term or upon sale of the home. Repaid funds are then recycled by making new loans. A similaz program is currently available in Minneapolis through MCDA—the Middle Income Housing Program. This program is not limited to first-time homeowners; it makes loans available for housing rehabilitation such as putting a new roof on a house. Funding for such a program tailored for the airport area might come from a one-time appropriation by the state legislature, an annual contribution by the MAC, issuance of revenue bonds by MAC, noise impact fees on late-night flights, or a combina.tion of sources including some form of local match. Communitv Revitalization Community revitalization programs are generally seen in areas that are past the stage of "preventative medicine" such as the properry value guarantee. Communities have generally discovered that there are no "silver bullets" when it comes to revitalization, but rather success will depend on utilization of a variety of programs to address problems such as lack of capital investment funds. Again, MSP-area communities have some substantial experience with commercial and residential revitalization programs, but more programs are needed to enable 'them to deal more effectively and comprehensively with airport impacts. Tax Increment Financing Tax increment financing ('TIF) districts have proven to be an effective community revitalization tool throughout the state. There are currently five general types of TIF districts, and the 5 �- �— _ �_, municzpalities surrounding MSP may qualify to use one or more of these districts. Generally, however, there are limitations impased relating to percentage of substandard stnictures in an area, purpases far which funds can be spent, the basis upon which the increment is calculated, and areas withiu which funds can be e�ended that tend to limit the usefizlness in dealing with airport impacts. With relatively mc>dest tailoring, the airport area wo�king group believes that TIF could become a powerful tool to deal with a whoie range �f atrport-imgact issues. � � These recammended changes include: I • Qualif'ications: Alter basic qualifying Ianguage so that, in additian to a speeified percentage of substandard housing, lacation within an aizport �rnpact zone would trigger use of the district, • Spending af increment: Permit the increment to be used for several purpases in addition to the standard land acquisition, site improvements, etc. Other qualifying expend'ztures might be noise insulation, rehabilitation Ioans, mortgage revenue bonds, conimunity facilities, etc. m • Geographic restric�ians on spending: Allow expenditure of increment anywhere within broader project area, perhaps the entire airpart impact zone; do nat limit just to district. I f Increment basis: Allow Iocalities to write dawn increment basis to zero. .Associated reducdan in lacal government aid should be spread, at a� im'm.'unum, over seven county region reflecting the regional impartance of the �airport and the special burdens borne by airpart-area communities that benefit atliers throughout the region. i • Inclusion of commercial airport property in districts: An increasing numi�er of airports azound the United Sta.tes are encouraging non-aviation related cammercial development on airport Iand, pazticutazly in apen buffer areas on ttie periphery of an airfeld, MAC should be specifically authorized to allow commercial use of buffer properties for non-aviarian commerciai uses, and such propeities should be inclucied in districts, the increment equivalent being paid into a fund to be used to address auport unpacts. NOTE; NEED TO EXPLORE THIS ISSUE FURTHER, Community Development Bank j Availability af a steady flow of investment capital or low-interest loans is often a key ingredient IIl �I2� SllCC�SS Cl� COIliillllIll� T�Vl�1Z�,t10Il j}IO�T�Il1S. Exgerience shows that in blighted or deteriorating azeas, bank lending and ather traditional sources of renovation and revitalization funding may dry up or canventionat finan.cing may not be sufiicient to stimulate private investment. To address this issue, several community develapment banks have aprung up that 6 ; . .- , ; y_-. 4 t,�� .•• �••• might be emulated in the airport environs to deal with lack of private loan funds or low-interest financing. ' One of the most successful of these communiry development banks--the South Shore Bank in Chicago--is described mor:e fully in the attached report. ° Using a combination of targeted residential and commercial loans, strategic development projects, and education programs, it has been responsible for revitalizing a neighborhood that had been written off by most observers In most respects, this community development bank is no different than any local neighborhood financial institution. Criteria for lending is the same used by other banks--credit worthiness of the borrower, debt to loan ratio, and similar indicia. One important difference, however, is that a significant amount of the banks funds are in "development deposits"--deposits by institutions and individuals located outside the South Shore azea who want to see their money used for neighborhood rehabilitation. As the bank's executive vice president has stated, "We are owned by shareholders who wish to invest in profitable operations, but who are also interested in economic development. " Community development bar�s often make rehabilitati�n funds available at below-market interest rates or with extended payment schedules. This non-traditional financing is often the key to getting the revitalization ball rolling. Funds for such non-traditional programs come from a variety of sources--community development funds, Community Reinvestment Act programs, and private sector contributions, to name only a few. The idea of a community development bank for MSP-area communities is worthy of further exploration. While the indicia of disfress and disinvestment are lower for these communities than was true in South Shore, a communiry development bank may be able to help stem deterioration in some residential azeas and provide venture capital and rehabilitation funds in commercial areas, particularly neighborhood commercial. Chartered by the state legislature, start-up capital for such a bank might come from a combination of sources, including MAC, azea governments, and even the state who could deposit funds therein. Area companies (particularly those associated with the airport) could also assist by depositing funds and making program-related investments (which typically must be paid back, but at very low rates of interest.) � �� __.s • • � � � _�� . In the real estate development business nationally, it is an increasingly common practice to provide incentives and benefits to neighborhoods and communities that aze asked to bear the impacts or burdens associated with a large facility (e.g., a large industrial development or ski resort). These might range from road improvements to ease potential traffic jams to set asides of significant amounts of park land to offset loss of open space on site or increased demand on local parks associated with an influx of new workers. The types of other incentives offered by developers include: 7 � �— . , _, �' � ; � �I i �� ; • Cammunity and recreation centers; �� • Contributions towards Iocai police, f�re, and emergency medical services/equipment; i • Planning assistance to help cope with anticipated impacts; � • Special rates for use of commercial iacilities (e.g., discounfi tickets at a ski resart}. � ; in a general sense, these incentives and i�enefits are intended to pratect and possibly enhance the qualiry of life in an area in which a new development is viewed as potentially compromising that quality of life. They can: aisa help take the "sting" out of having to live with a major development. In the cantext of the airport, an incentive%mitigatiori package might include, for e�xample, funding far additionai indoor recreationai facilities. The logic would be that such facilities would help "comperisate° surrounding neighborhaods far the adverse impacts airport noise has an the use of outdoor recreation sites. MAC has already taken some important steps in this direction by m�kking some af its land available for a gublic golf course that not only provides additional recreationa.l opportunides, but also provides an important buffer for neighboring Richfield. Private companies might also be enlisted in this effort. In many communities, airlines contribute free or discount tickets to warthy cammunity causes in airport envirans. For e�ample, to encourage cammunity involvement in planning far the redevelogment of Stapleton Airport in Denver, Continentai Airlines contributed airline tickets and lodging as prizes in a contest for school-age children to suggest interesting uses for the site. �ir�o��rtt Pratectioa� Me�sures I A recurring problem araund most major airparts throughout the United States is the continuing constcuction af uses that are incompatible from either a noise or safety perspective. � Several steps have been taken in Minnesota to guard against this persistent problem. For example, the state has enacted the ,Airpart Zaning Act (Minn, Stat. sec. 360.p61 et seq} that requires,municipalities within airport hazard areas ta enact special pratective regularions to prevent constructian or expansion of certain high density and other uses. Simiiarly, the Metropolitan Cauncil; as part of its regianal planning responsibilities, has promulgated model noise protection standards that are ta be incorporated into Iocal comprehensive plans and regulatians. Unfortunately, these requirements have not worked in practice. The jaint zoning board established� around MSP pursuant to the Airpart Zoning Act is na longer active. And while a few airport-azea municipalities have adopted the Met Council noise standards, the majority have not {aithough most have same noise protection/insulatian standards for new construction). ;� If the aixpart is to continue to functian in an efficient, safe manner, it is importanf that steps be . taken ta make these processes more effective. To do so, the legislatuxe should consider: ' 8 : , � �— _ . . --:' I � � .. • Integrating the airport zoning ordinance safery requirements with the Met Council noise standards to be administered by a revamped Airport Zoning Board. • Putting "teeth" into the enforcement provisions of the Airport Zoning Act so that local compliance is ensured. At the same time�, the state legislature must address _ the issue of compensation if local regulations prevent a proposed use and local governments are threatened with "takings" litigation that may result in a damage award against them. • Requiring that local implementing regulations be performance based, that is, they specify prefened result, but give local govemments regulatory flexibility in achieving a specified objective. • Providing land use planning assistance to local governments so that they can comprehensively�assess and plan azeas subject to airport impacts. 9 � 0 t ' �