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CHAPTER 8 PLAN IMPLEMENTATION 8.1 INTRODUCTION In late 1979, the present master plan study for the Anoka County -Blaine Airport was initiated. The study was based upon the Aviation Chapter of the Metropolitan Development Guide which recommended development of Anoka County -Blaine Airport as an Intermediate airport. The study was initially oriented, therefore, toward evaluating the differential social, environmental, and aeronautical impacts associated with development of the airport as either an Intermediate or Minor facility. Also in 1979 the Minnesota Legislature, in House File No. 1 (Special Session), established a two-year development moratorium at the airport and directed preparation of a master plan. At the outset of the plan, a broad citizen participation process was established to ensure both that the public would be kept continually informed and that the public would have a meaningful input to plan devel- opment. The process included three major types of activities: (1) large public meetings, (2) a series of workshops with an Advisory Task Force, and (3) periodic newsletters. An initial large public meeting was held on October 30, 1979, at the Blaine Senior High School. Opinion both in support of and in opposition to airport development was expressed at this meeting. Concern expressed at this meeting focused primarily on develop- ment of the airport as an Intermediate facility, and the safely and environmental issues inherent in this development. Early in the study four conceptual alternatives were identified: (1) development of an Intermediate airport primarily oriented in the north -south direction; (2) development of an Intermediate airport primarily oriented in the cast -west direction; (3) development of an Intermediate airport with an entirely new orientation rotated to the northwest -southwest; (4) development of a Minor airport.