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• Barton - Aschman Associates, Inc. 1610 South Sixth Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454 612- 332 -0421 MEMORANDUM TO: Lino Lakes Zoning Ordinance Update Task Force and Planning Commission FROM: Bill Short DATE: March 9, 1983 SUBJECT: AIRPORT ZONING CONSIDERATIONS Currently, there are two airports operating within the city limits of Lino Lakes; they include: (1) Surfside Seaplane Base (and landing strip), and (2) Lino Air Park, a private use airstrip. Both the Metropolitan Council and MnDOT applaud Lino Lakes' interest in establishing land use safety zones for these airports. However, the individuals that I talked to in the MnDOT Division of Aeronautics indicate that there is no requirement for land use safety zones for either of these airports. They informed me that the only time that the state recommended land use safety zoning for airports are for those airports which are open to the public, owned by a public agency, and requesting MnDOT's funds. Since neither Surfside nor Lino Air Park fit these requirements, then the state will not require any land use safety zoning. However, the state does recommend that communities do control land use around all airports in an effort to provide the best land use control and safety around airport facilities. As the City of Lino Lakes proceeds with some sort of land use safety zoning for airports, the following should be considered. Surfside Seaplane Base currently offers a landing strip which does not meet public airport standards. However, Bruce Hanson, the operator of Surfside, is planning to improve the airstrip so that public use can be offered. By applying the recommended land use safety zoning to Surf side's landing strip, it appears that there should be no signigicant land use conflicts. This is because both approaches to the landing strip are primarily routed over water. Therefore, to apply the land use safety zoning standards recommended by MnDOT would not appear to be a hardship to any landowners of affected property. Lino Air Park, on the other hand, uses approaches which are routed over existing developed and developable lands owned by others. If the city were to apply MnDOT's recommended standards for these districts, they may prove to be quite restrictive to those landowners. For example, land use safety zone A, which restricts uses to agriculture, outdoor recreation, cemeteries, and other low intensity uses, would overlay eight lots in Sunset Oaks Subdivision, five lots in Sherwood Green Subdivision, and four acres of undeveloped land owned by Molin Concrete. Implementation of these recommended standards would restrict those existing uses to develop no more intensely than they are today (especially significant for any plans for resubdivision if