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Only one airport, South St. Paul, has limited room for additional storage expansion beyond that required for the planning period. As reflected in Table IV- 1, if all existing on-airport property available at the reliever airports is developed for aircraft storage and pazking, a surplus of 1,900 storage and parking positions would be available. Development of the existing system can resolve all storage defiaencies identified in the demand/capaaty analysis. Therefore, additional aircraft storage capacity was not a critical factor in formulating system alternatives. (2) ~nacily~i lmttatioit and Delav Capacity shortfalls of the existing system were identified in the capacity analysis. When conducting capacity analysis at the system level, annual service volume (ASV) is the best indicator of operational capacity. In contrast, at the comprehensive master planning level, hourly capaaty is typically included as well. It was determined that with unconstrained growth and the possible diversion of 24,500 operations from Minneapolis-St. Paul International, the reliever system would approach 74 percent of available annual operating capacity by 2008. Anoka County- Blaine will reach 137 percent of its available capacity; St. Paul Downtown will approach 100 percent of available capacity; and Flying Cloud will surpass 80 percent of available capacity by the end of the planning period. In addition, Crystal Airport will surpass 75 percent of capacity by the end of the planning period. Typically, an airport should begin exploring ways to enhance capacity when it approaches 60 percent of its operational capacity. When an airport reaches 80 percent of its operational capacity, enhancements should be implemented. Of the three airports projected to surpass 80 percent of their operational capacity, Anoka County-Blaine is the only facility that has a land ernelope adequate to effectively accommodate improvements that would greatly enhance its operational capacity: Such capacity enhancements could include the rnnstruction of a parallel runway and an air traffic control tower. While Lake Elmo and Airlake are not projected to surpass operational capacity under the unconstrained model, these airports also have N-4