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THIS IS <br /> IT . . . . <br /> For the Week of August 1 - August 5, 1994 <br /> ADMINISTRATION <br /> Airport <br /> OnWednesday, Tim C., Cathy and I attended a meeting with representatives from <br /> MAC (Metropolitan Airports Commission) and the Anoka County-Blaine airport to <br /> discuss the updated Master Plan for the airport. The plan continues to include an air <br /> traffic control tower and dual runways. The designation will remain a minor use <br /> airport. <br /> Several of the concerns expressed by our residents were discussed at the meeting, <br /> most notably the continual "buzzing" of the neighborhood south of the airport. One of <br /> the rationales for the tower would be to better control planes who wonder out of the <br /> established flight pattern. <br /> Currently, the airport is equipped to handle small "corporate" jets. However, many of <br /> the jets do not like the airport because of the lack of dual runways and the "mixing" of <br /> plane types and sizes on the single way runway. If the dual runways are allowed, it is <br /> presumed that the level of corporate jet activity will increase approximately 15%. <br /> While the Plan outlines these two suggestions for improvement, it is the fear, at least <br /> by one other city- Circle Pines, that the implementation of a tower and dual runways <br /> will make it much easier to upgrade the airport sometime in the future. <br /> Perhaps the best thing to come from the meeting yesterday was the positive <br /> response we had from the manager'of reliever airports,Jack Eberlein. He was very <br /> responsive to our concerns and requested that anytime we observed something at <br />