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-3- insufficient documentation since the copies of the plat they had been provided indi- cated they had been "unchecked" and had not been signed by a registered surveyor. As reported in the minutes, the Commissioner said the first inclination had been to table the matter but, after further discussion, the Commissioners had decided not to delay the development but rather, to draw the Council 's attention to their concerns and to request that the City Attorney review all the documents before the plat is filed. Mr. Childs indicated the copies of the plat the Council had before them that evening had been revised from those the Commission had been provided. He said he had checked with the land surveyor and found their policy was not to sign a plat until after it had been approved by the City and the Hennepin County Surveyor. The Manager said he had talked to Bill Soth and the City Attorney had indicated that, although he had no problem with the plat per se, there were a few other items he needed to clear with the developers and therefore agreed the final approval should be made subject to his review, as had been done previously with the platting of the Johnson addition, etc. Motion by Councilmember Enrootn and seconded by Mayor Sundland to approve the final plat for the first six units of the Village Townhome redevelopment project, subject to the final approval of the City Attorney. Motion carried unanimously. Chuck Wiger who represents St. Anthony on the Metropolitan Council . and._Connie Ko-zlak, a staff member who is a City resident, had come to the meeting to give the Council an update on matters pending before the Metro Council , with a special focus on that • organization' s efforts towards airport noise abatement, with which Ms. Kozlak is closely involved. Prior to that discussion, the Metro Councilmember briefly reported on two issues of City interest. He said he was glad to learn from Council minutes that the City was investigating the incentives now being offered communities to encourage their involvement in the state and county waste management efforts and Mr. Wiger offered the City the services of his staff in that endeavor. Metro Councilmember Wiger indicated that he had assumed from the fact that the City was now current in their payment of Metro Waste Control Commission charges, that differences about the City's rates had been resolved, at least to some degree. He also indicated he had assumed that the metro watchdog organizations the City. belongs to had already alerted the Council to the fact that the SAC charge increase from $425.00 to $475.00 had gone into=effect -a'nd-that -new l egi sl ati`on for a. unified-rdte structure for the region was being proposed by the MWCC. Before addressing the City' s concerns about what is perceived to be an increase in flights from International Airport over St. Anthony, Ms. Kozlak said she had a Minneapolis planner tell her recently that he had just moved from the Lake Harriet neighborhood to St. Anthony to "get away from the airport noise". She indicated she perceived the residents here are complaining about the airplane noises now because they just aren't used to them but in fact, compared to the annoyances experienced by persons living closer to the airport, St. Anthony's problems are really minor. The configuration of the runways at International , Ms. Kozlak said, in addition to the fact that the planes have to take off into the wind which forces many of them to turn around right over St. Anthony, as well as the tremendous increase in air traffic since the airline industry has been deregulated, all have resulted in the City residents being bothered more by the airplane noises.