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08/07/1984 - Airport Relations Commission CITY OF EAGAN AIRPORT NOISE COMMITTEE MEETING TUESDAY AUGUST 7, 1984 4:15 P.M. I. ROLL CALL II. MARK RYAN, TRANSPORTATION PLANNER, METROPOLITAN COUNCIL III. REVIEW OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON JULY 26, 1984 IV. GENERAL DISCUSSION ON THE INITIATION OF GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE AIRPORT NOISE COMMITTEE V. OTHER BUSINESS VI. ADJOURNMENT MEMO TO: AIRPORT NOISE COMMITTEE MEMBERS FROM: DALE C. RUNKLE DATE: AUGUST 2, 1984 SUBJECT: BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR THE AUGUST 7, 1984 AIRPORT NOISE COMMITTEE MEETING It was requested at the July 24, 1984, Airport Noise Committee meet- ing that a representative of the Metropolitan Council be present at the August 7th meeting to discuss their role as it related to the airport. For the past 5 or 6 years the Metropolitan Council has been working on guidelines for landuse compatability with air- craft noise. This document was finally adopted by the Metropolitan Council in March of 1983. Enclosed with this packet of information is the portion of the document which deals with Eagan as it relates to the airport. Also, some background information and the basis of these proposed guidelines. Hopefully, this will give you some insight and stimulate some questions as to how the Metropolitan council is involved with Wold - Chamberlain Airport. Staff has received a request from Mr. Joe Harrison to review past history and documentation to see if the City has any agreement with the Metropolitan Airports Commission in regard to the preferen- tial runway and a runway heading of 105. With this request, Staff is reviewing past minutes and documentation and hopefully this up- date can be shared with the Committee at the August 7 meeting. The last item Staff would like to mention, is that on July 26, 1984, the Operation's Committee of the Metropolitan Airport Sound Abate- ment Commission Committee met and reviewed the resolution submitted by Mendota Heights in regard to the preferential runway system. The resolution from Mendota Heights addresses the 090 heading and departures on Runway 11 - in Mendota Heights by the Operation's Committee. The MAC (Metropolitan Airports Commission) Staff people reviewed the numbers from the survey which was conducted regarding total number of departures and how the system was presently working. Tom Baker or myself, can review what has happened at this Operations Committee Meeting. If any one of the Committee would like additional information or would like to add something to this Agenda, please feel free so that we can include these items on the August 7th Agenda. _10e771_ Dale C. Runkle DCR:jbd • • RESOLUTION .AIR TRAFFIC NOISE /CITY OF EAGAN WHEREAS, the Federal Aeronautics Administration, together with the Metropolitan Airports Commission, promulgated the use of- Runways 11L and 11R as primary takeoff and landing runways for Minneapolis /St. Paul International Airport, utilizing 105' headings, running easterly of the airport; and WHEREAS, the 105' headings promulgated in 1972 are not being adhered by aircraft taking of and landing on Runways 29L and 11R, but no official change has been adopted to revise the heading established by the preferential runway plan; and WHEREAS, the preferential runway system impacts existing and future development, the types of zoning and land uses currently existing and proposed for the area, noise and safety factors, and related issues; and WHEREAS,the policies and procedures formulated by the preferen- tial runway plan and promoted and adopted by the Metropolitan Air_orts Commission, together with the commercial airlines anc the Metropolitan Airport Sound Abatement Council concerning takeoffs and landings from the Minneapolis /St Paul International Airport, have been repeatedly violated, including flying at lower altitudes than designated in the regulations, and diversion from designated corridors, and WHEREAS, there are reasonable and viable corridors for landings and takeoffs easterly from the airport; and WHEREAS, the quiet hour or restricted hour policy promoted and adopted by the MAC and the FAA covering nightime and weekend -- hours is not being adhered to, causing unnecessary noise to affected residences and businesses; and WHEREAS, aircraft are flying diversionary patterns into and out of Runway #22, rather than following the prescibed Cedar Avenue corridor intended to reduce the impact upon affected residences and businesses; and WHEREAS, the City of Eagan and its residents receive the majority of all takeoffs and landings during the nightime quiet or curfew hours; and WHEREAS, ground runups at St. Paul International Airport have repeatedly created excessive and unnecessary noise and violation of prescribed and accepted runup procedures; and WHEREAS, the air traffic counts taken during the weeks of May 14 through May 18, 1984, May 21 through May 25, 1984, and June 17 through June 22, 1984, indicate an excessive amount of the landings and takeoffs occurring over the City of Eagan; and • 110 WHEREAS the Noise Abatement Runway Use Program, Y g dated August (7 15, 1982, 3.I.(1), provides that Mendota Heights /Eagan procedures with departures on 11R and 11L shall be issued heading 105' which will ensure that aircraft will remain clear of the Mendota Heights /Eagan noise sensitive areas unless minimum diversion headings are needed to separate parallel departures not on the same route; and WHEREAS an Eagan Noise Committee was appointed in the spring of 1984, a number of meetings were held during the summer of 1984 and a fact finding report presented to the Eagan City Council at the October 30, 1984, regular meeting; and WHEREAS recommendations to control and regulate air traffic noise over the City of Eagan were presented by the Airport Noise Committee; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Eagan City Council that the following conditions be considered for the purpose of regulating air traffic noise over the City of Eagan: 1) Formulate an air traffic noise task force in several cities ( i to further study the impact of air traffic noise over com- munities adjacent to the Minneapolis /St. Paul International (i Airport and to specifically contact the cities of Burnsville and Mendota Heights for the purpose of creating this task force. 2) The task force will propose and submit through its local city councils, local legislators, appropriate legislation that will affectively serve to control safety and noise - issues created by aircraft flying over those northern Dakota County cities. 3) Require that flight patterns over the 'City of Eagan be on an agreed upon predetermined course and further that flights be returned to the original flight patterns prior to the two (2) year takeoff and landing experiment as imple- mented by the Metropolitan Airport Commission. 4) Special measures be undertaken to restrict runups during nighttime and weekend hours and, further, to install all reasonable equipment to reduce the noise impact from runups at all times, including baffles, walls and other noise abatement devices. 5) Impose reasonable penalties on pilots and airline commercial carriers that do not adhere to appropriate guidelines and regulations required for flights to and from the airport. 6) Request the FAA and the MAC to require a steeper ascent and descent of aircraft and, in addition, to extend the 105 heading on Runways 11R, 11L, 29R and 29L for a distance o' at least five miles from the end of the respective runways to minimize noise impact. Motion by: Wachter Seconded by: Egan Members in Favor: Unanimous Members Opposed: Dated: November 26, 1984 CITY COUNCIL CITY OF EAGAN ATTEST: By: City Clerk Mayor CERTIFICATION I, E.J. VanOverbeke, Clerk of the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a RESOLUTION adopted by the City Council of the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota on November 20, 1984. • • \1 2 S i 8 -16 -84 EAGAN NOISE COMMITTEE DRAFT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO: THOMAS HEDGES EAGAN CITY COUNCIL 3830 Pilot Knob Road Eagan, MN 55122 The Eagan Airport Noise Committee was organized by the Eagan City Council on , 1984, including members Tom Baker, Joe Harrison, Roger Sperling, Carol Dezois, Bob Swenson, Don Giblin, Dick Victor, John Gustin, Barton Schmidt and Dave Randall. In addition, City Administrator Tom Hedges, City Planner Dale Runkle and City Attorney Paul Hauge have been meeting with the Committee members. Meetings were held on May 8, May 29, June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24, August 7, and August 21, 1984. Resource persons who have met with the Committee include Representative Art Seaberg, Craig Stone representing Senator Howard Knutson, Attorney Dick Gunn, FAA Air Traffic Manager Les Case, Assistant FAA Manager Robert Botcher, Darrell Weslander, MASAC Noise Coordinator, David Kelso of the Minnesota Noise Section of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Mark Ryan, Transportation Planner from the Metropolitan Council and Jeff Hamiel with the MAC. In addition, the Committee has been presented with substantial statistical data, general infor- mation concerning policies and procedures of the Metropolitan Airport Commis- sion, the Metropolitan Council, the Metroplitan Airport Sound Abatement Council and the Federal Aeronautics Authority. After an in -depth study of the air traffic patterns, the sources of noise from aircraft approaching and leaving the Minneapolis and St. Paul International Airport and the impact of noise upon the residents, property values, the location of business, the impact on zoning and land uses in the 1 r) area, in particular the City of Eagan, the Committee makes the following recommendations to the City Council: 1. The preferential runway system that was originally agreed upon and adopted by the Metropolitan Airports Commission in 1972, particularly as it relates to the northerly portion of the City of Eagan should be adhered to as the general pattern for aircraft landings and departures. This system has been and continues to impact existing development, potential development, the types of zoning and land uses currently existing and proposed for the area, noise and safety factors, and related issues. 2. The City Council should continually monitor and be directly involved in decisions made by appropriate metropolitan and state agencies involved in determining whether the two -year aircraft diversion experiment should continue. 3. The City Council should be directly responsive to the residents, owners and businesses within the City, in taking all reasonable steps, their impact by the very severe noise, by the traffic patterns that create severe noise to the residents and businesses within the City limits. 4. The City Council should cooperate with the Mendota Heights City Council in controlling the flight patterns on Runways 29 R and L and 11 L and R so as to minimize the impact upon already established development and particularly potential future residential areas in the northern Dakota County area, impacted by the flight patterns arriving and leaving on those runways. 5. The City Council should propose and submit through its local legis- lators, appropriate legislation that will effectively serve to control safety and noise issues created by aircraft flying over the City of Eagan. The City Council should take whatever steps are necessary, through the Metropolitan Airports Commission, the Metropolitan Council, the Minnesota Legislature, the MASAC and whatever other agencies exercise control over traffic patterns to 2 insist that flight patterns over the City be on an agreed upon predetermined course, that the noise from run -ups within the airport area be reduced sub- stantially, that the City of Eagan be subjected to an equitable portion of the take -offs and landings from the Metropolitan Airport, that penalties be imposed upon pilots and airline companies that do not follow the guidelines and regulations required for flights to and from the Metropolitan Airport, that all necessary steps concerning allowable flight patters, be taken to educate the air traffic controllers, that the persons involved in determining flight patterns and directing aircraft in and out of the airport insure com- pliance with all such rules and regulations, that appropriate regulations be instituted controlling landings and take -offs during the night -time hours and that adequate monitoring devices be installed as soon as possible to determine the number of flights utilizing each of the runways, the times that the flights occur, the nature of the flight patterns, including compliance with the flight pattern regulations, and the level of noise that emanates from the various aircraft. 6. The City Council should determine whether litigation should be commenced on behalf of the City in one or more of the following: a. Inverse condemnation; b. Declaratory judgment action to determine compliance with appli- cable regulations; c. An action for damages due to adverse impact upon the public including parks, municipal facilities and other public interests; d. Possible injunctive relief from further violation of existing regulations and violations of infringement of air space over the City of Eagan; 3 e. Complaints alleging violations of applicable City Ordinances, including noise standards and nuisances. 7. The City Council should determine whether an environmental assessment worksheet and environmental impact statement have been appropriate- ly prepared or should be required for the air craft experiment over the northern Dakota County area. PHH 4 ,t,;\ ® Metropolitan Council t 300 Metro Square Building I Seventh and Robert Streets `" St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 i n -I' ` F Telephone (612) 291 -6359 September 1983 TO: Metropolitan Area Local Officials and Citizens: Attached is an amendment to the Aviation Chapter of the Metropolitan Development Guide. The amendment, Guidelines for Land Use Compatibility with Aircraft Noise, was adopted by the Metropolitan Council on March 24, 1983 following several years of public meetings and a public hearing. The guidelines encourage development in areas around airports in the metropolitan airports system that can be made compatible with aircraft operations. They discourage construction of single - family homes, schools, churches and hospitals in noisy areas around the airports. Less stringent guidelines are proposed for developed areas adjacent to the airports. The proposed guidelines relate to new and existing land uses around all airports in the system. The airports most directly affected are Minneapolis - St. Paul International, St. Paul Downtown, Flying Cloud, Crystal, Lake Elmo and South St. Paul Municipal. The guidelines will apply to the Anoka County- Blaine Airport and Airlake Airport after long -term development plans for the two airports are completed. Besides the land use compatibility guidelines, the amendment includes specific noise levels and a means of describing the noise for each type of airport: major, intermediate or minor. If you have any questions about the amendment, please call Mark Ryan, a Council transportation planner, at 291 - 6548. Additional copies of the amendment are available for $1 from the Council's Communications Dept., telephone 291 - 6464. Sint , ly, f Gerald J. Isa s, Chair Attachment GJI /poc An Equal Opportunity Employer