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THIS IS IT.... <br />For the Week of August 1 - August 5, 1994 <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 ob$erved something at <br />