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HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 88-299
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ON THE
NOVEMBER, 1988 FLYING CLOUD MASTER PLAN
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the Master Plan Report, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has received and reviewed comments and input from
City advisory commissions, City Staff, residents, and interested individuals.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the Eden Prairie City Council finds the
report's preferred alternative of extending the southerly east/west runway to 5,000
feet incompatible with Eden Prairie ' s Comprehensive Guide Plan for the following
reasons:
1. The runway expansion and extended Safety Zone A will remove 100+
acres planned for residential and park use from the City's Guide
Plan.
2. The associated extended Safety Zones A and B will prohibit and
restrict residential development respectively.
3. The adjacent landfill and U.S. Fish and Wildlife area are identified
incompatible uses with an airport and thereby incompatible with
expansion.
4. Aircraft flight patterns will be extended out and lowered which will
impact neighborhoods presently receiving minimal aircraft noise.
This will have a significant impact on the future residential
planned for southwestern Eden Prairie .
5. An extended runway will attract additional jet traffic to Flying
Cloud which predominately serves single engine aircraft. Mixing
slow moving aircraft with fast traveling aircraft can cause ground
and air confusion and congestion.
6. The expansion appears to have minimal benefit to the metropolitan
area.
7. It has riot been demonstrated that future jet aircraft cannot be
accommodated at St. Paul Downtown and other MAC airports .
8. The "spike" noise (90-100+dcb) , associated with jet aircraft, is not
compatible with Eden Prairie ' s existing and planned residential uses
around the airport.
9. Based upon the 1986 Metropolitan Council ' s Aviation Plan, Flying
Cloud can meet its operational demands up to the year 2003.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Eden Prairie City Council has the following
response to additional hangar space at the south side of the airport:
A. Oid hangars and hangar rows should be considered for rehabilitation
or raising and new hangars erected. This could delay the need for
expensive land acquisition and site preparation for a new hangar
area.
B. If new hangars are constructed along the south side of the airport,
a screening plan should be implemented which will interrupt the view
of the airport from the Wildlife Refuge and any future adjacent
residential uses.
ADOPTED by the City Council on the 20th day of December 3 Iggg_
Gary D. P ters , Ma or
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John r Clerk