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Metropolitan Airports Commission July 10, 1997 • Page 4 5. The recommendation that 8R/26L should be widened from 75 feet to 100 feet should be deleted. Runway 8R/26L should remain at its 75 foot width. As established above, an ARC B-II design standard is improper for this Airport and in conflict with the 1983 Master Plan and Order. Using an ARC A-I standard instead, a 75 foot width on Runway 8R./26L is appropriate. 6. The recommendation for the proposed parallel runway 17R/35L to be developed to a length of 5,000 feet "if it is politically feasible" should be removed from the Plan since it is in conflict with the 1983 Order and Master Plan which states that the runway is to be only 4,855 feet long. 7. The recommendations regarding dimensions of taxiways on page 3-31 must also be amended to be in accordance with the Order and 1983 Master Plan. As stated above, it is inappropriate to use an ARC B-II standard for designing a.taxiway width of 35 feet. The current 30 foot width should be left in place. It is also inappropriate to consider a 300 foot separation on Runway 17R/35L based on a possible precision approach for that runway. Pursuant to the Order, a precision approach may only be installed on runway 8-26. The recommendation on page 3-14 regarding a 300 foot separation to accommodate ARC B-III aircraft is also inappropriate given that the design standards for the Airport 411 should be for the ARC A-I smaller D and E aircraft provided for in the 1983 Master Plan. 8. The recommendations for proposed parallel 8L/26R I 7R/35L Runways should be removed from the Plan in that there is not a sufficient increase in the number of operations of the small D and E type aircraft at the Airport to warrant the expenditures on such additional runways at this time. Adding such improvements at the Airport to accommodate a possible growth in commercial aircraft of the ARC B-II standard would be in violation of the Order and the 19,83 Master Plan, which has not recognized such aircraft as being the typical operating-aircraft for the Airport. 9. The recommendations for a GPS precision approach on runway 17R and precision approach indicators (PAPIs) for runway 17R/35L should be removed from the Plan as being in conflict with the Order which allows for precision approaches only on the east/west runway 8/26. 10. The recommendation for an additional 215,000 square feet of private hangar storage on pages 3-25 and 3-30 should be removed from the Plan. The projections for based aircraft upon which this recommendation is based are incorrect in light of the fact that the Plan has been based on an ARC B-II design aircraft which is in conflict with the 1983 Master Plan and Order. If the ARC A-I design standard is used, a much lesser amount of hangar storage space would be needed during the planning period based on the FAA projections • of a decline in the smaller single and double engine type D and E aircraft. RW1 12 1`?4