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MEMO TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Clerk -Administrator <br />DATE: March 8, 1984 <br />SUBJECT: ANOKA COUNTY-BLAINE AIRPORT IMPROVEMENTS <br />Mayor McCarty has requested that staff place the referenced <br />subject matter on your March 12, 1984 Agenda due to communications <br />he has recently received from residents of the community regarding <br />their concern that improvements are being constructed at the Anoka <br />County -Blaine Airport during 1984 which are provided for in the <br />Master Plan. For your information, I would like to update you on <br />what is being proposed for the Anoka County -Blaine Airport pursuant <br />to their 1984-85 Capital Improvement Program and the 1986-1990 Capital <br />Improvement Plan which was recently adopted by the Metropolitan <br />Airports Commission at their meeting on February 21, 1984. <br />The 1984-85 Capital Improvement Program, which was summarized <br />in <br />a memorandum to you dated January 3, 1984, copy attached, provides <br />for the following projects, a copy of the actual rage of the plan <br />addressing the Anoka County -Blaine Airport is 7.tached for your <br />information: <br />1984 Projects - overlay of runways, taxiways, aprons, etc. <br />` This is described as being a maintenance activity which has <br />previously been reviewed by the City and which has been <br />part of the Commission's Capital Improvement Plan for the <br />last several years. <br />Landing Aids $ 20,000 <br />Building Area Development $800,000 <br />1985 Projects - implementation of Phase I of the Master Plan, <br />with— the expenditures of $1,900,000 for the relocation of the <br />existing north/south runway and taxiway system 950 feet to <br />the north plus the extension of the existing east/west runway <br />to 4,000 feet. <br />Prior to the 1985 project commencing, the Metropolitan Airports <br />Commission will be conducting an environmental assessment as required <br />by State and Federal regulations. Staff has been in contact with <br />the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, which is at this time <br />determining what regulations apply to the improvements being <br />constructed at the airport, i.e., State and/or Federal, and what <br />avenues the City has for pursuing an environmental impact statement <br />should the Metropolitan Airports Commission determine as part of <br />their environmental assessment that no significant environmental <br />impacts exist and an environmental impact statement is not necessary. <br />