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.
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Dale C. Runkle
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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;
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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.
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,t,;\ ® Metropolitan Council
t 300 Metro Square Building
I Seventh and Robert Streets
`" St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
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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,
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Gerald J. Isa s, Chair
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