06/13/2000 - Airport Relations Commission MINUTES OF THE EAGAN
AIRPORT RELATIONS COMMISSION MEETING
JUNE 13, 2000
A regular meeting of the Eagan Airport Relations Commission was held on Tuesday, June 13,
2000, at 7:00 p.m. Those present were Eric Drenckhahn, Ted Gladhill, Steve Soderling, Lance Staricha,
Charles Thorkildson and Nadim Zoberi. Absent were Alice Kreitz and Hassan Saffouri, Alternate. Also
present were Jamie Verbrugge, Assistant City Administrator and Mary Swenson, Recording Secretary.
AGENDA
Upon motion by Gladhill, seconded by Drenckhahn, the agenda was approved as presented. All
members voted in favor.
MINUTES
Zoberi made a motion to approve the minutes; Thorkildson seconded the motion. All members
voted in favor.
VISITORS TO BE HEARD
There were no visitors to be heard.
PART 150 UPDATE
Verbrugge gave an overview of the new North -South Runway which is projected to be
operational in December of 2003. He presented an overhead showing flight tracks off the runway and
further explained which flight tracks would affect the City of Eagan and its neighboring communities.
Verbrugge stated the purpose of the flight tracks over Eagan is to disperse aircraft over as large an area
as possible to minimize concentration of aircraft in any particular area. He also presented an overhead
showing shaded areas, from dark to light, indicating fanning and over flights that would take place off
each individual flight track. He stated the dark shading being an area more concentrated with aircraft
than the lighter shaded area.
Verbrugge stated the Airport Relations Commission along with the City Council recommended
the 85 degree departure flight track fan to the MASAC Operations Committee. The City made a request
to MASAC at the June 9 meeting to re- evalute our second choice recommendation regarding the 60
degree departure fan. Verbrugge stated that MASAC came back with a recommendation of a 105
degree hybrid fan. He presented an overhead showing the 105 degree hybrid fan with shaded areas
indicating where over flights will occur. Verbrugge stated a copy of the 105 degree hybrid fan can be
obtained by logging on to www.macaysat.org. Soderling stated he would like to see a map showing all
flight tracks and runways and the affects over the City of Eagan. Verbrugge stated he had also asked to
see a projected map with all runways and would try to obtain such a map by the next ARC meeting.
Verbrugge presented an overhead showing a 2005 DNL contour map including the North -South
Runway. Gladhill voiced his disappointment in MASAC's recommendation because of the amount of
air traffic the new runway will bring over the entire City of Eagan. Staricha commented that certain
areas of 60 DNL and over in Burnsville and Minneapolis are shown on the maps as being eliminated,
with Eagan picking up areas under 60 DNL, so that insulation of homes can be avoided. Soderling
stated concentration of aircraft is a better solution to noise than dispersion.
Airport Relations Commission Minutes
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Verbrugge discussed several e-mail messages he received from residents after the two MAC
public informational meetings which were held in Eagan on May 23rd and 25th. He stated the e-mails
were in reference to a single noise event, contours, where they could go to gage noise projected for their
neighborhoods and questions related to what it will be like once the new runway is operational.
Verbrugge stated there are 575,000 annual operations projected for the North -South Runway in 2005.
He also stated that 37 percent of all departures and 17 percent of all arrivals, which is approximately 300
departures and 133 arrivals per average day, will fly over the City of Eagan. Verbrugge stated that
recommendations from the MASAC Operations Committee regarding departure profiles, flight track
departure fan, Runway Use System, low demand priorities and all operational assumptions will be voted
on at their regular meeting later this month. He further stated that land use measures LU1 -8 and LU14
are going forward.
Soderling questioned what Eagan can do at this point. Verbrugge stated there are two things that
can be done; 1.) least likely to benefit, legislative intervention, and 2.) most likely to benefit, continue
to educate people. Gladhill asked if the ARC should continue to participate at MASAC. Verbrugge
stated the ARC should continue their participation. He also stated that this runway is actually reducing
the number of people from the most severely noise impacted area around the airport and adding a large
number people to the less severely noise impacted area. Verbrugge stated that possibly once the new
runway has been operational through several peak seasons, we could ask the FAA and MAC to take
another look and re- evaluate the flight path situation.
MASAC UPDATE
Commissioner Staricha's summary of the May 23 MASAC meeting was included in the packet.
No questions or comments were raised at the meeting.
NORTH -SOUTH RUNWAY COMMUNICATIONS PLAN
Verbrugge stated the Eagan Community Cable Television Program, "Community Journal ", for
the month of June, has a segment regarding the MAC public meetings and the North -South Runway
issue. He also presented an overhead showing DNL contours of the new Part 150 Program. Verbrugge
stated there is a very good article coming out in the Experience Eagan newsletter entitled "Airport Noise
— Taking Off Over Eagan". He stated the article is their cover story and is being printed this week and
should be delivered to residents in about 10 days.
ADJOURNMENT
Upon motion by Drenckhahn, seconded by Zoberi the Commission members adjourned the
meeting at 8:05 p.m.
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