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Lake Elmo Agenda Section: Planning, Land Use and Zoning <br />City Council No. 9D <br />,September 5, <br />2006 <br />Commission — Lake Elmo Airport 2025 Plan <br />Background Information for September 5, 2006• <br />City Administrator Martin Rafferty, Planner Chuck Dillerud, and Assistant Planner Kelli Matzek along with <br />representatives of Baytown Township and West Lakeland Township recently attended a meeting with the <br />Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) staff and its consultants to discuss the Lake Elmo Airport Long <br />Term (2025) Comprehensive Plan Update now underway at MAC. <br />While the planning process is not yet complete, research that has been recently completed by their <br />consultant has lead MAC to the conclusion there is at least a need for increased hanger space at Lake Elmo <br />Airport. MAC staff also advises that, whenever the question of increased runway length is raised, aircraft <br />owners will always favor such improvements from an aircraft operations safety perspective. Therefore <br />runway extensions are included as draft airport development concepts. No runway relocation is now <br />proposed — as it had been in the past. <br />MAC presented three draft concepts for inclusion in the 2025 updated plan for local government continent: <br />• leave the airport runways as -is, but create additional hanger development on the east side of the <br />airport site <br />• extend the southwest/northeast runway from 2,850 feet to 3,200 feet with hanger development <br />• extend the southwest to northeast runway from 2,850 feet to 3,900 feet with hanger development <br />The local government representatives at the meeting agreed that a fourth alternative be no fug <br />develo men- at the airport (runways or hangers) <br />MAC staff has requested City comments on the draft airport development options that have been presented <br />by September 22. Thereafter MAC will conduct a Public forum on the draft 2025 Lake Elmo Airport Plan at <br />an unspecified date in the future — probably at the Baytown Town Hall. <br />Action items: <br />Council comments on the MAXC draft 2025 development <br />concepts for the Lake Elmo Airport. To be transmitted to MAC. <br />Attachments: <br />1. Draft Concept Plans Graphics <br />Time Allocated: <br />