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Chapter 1: Describes the existing (1988) airports system and assesses performance of its 11 airports. Provides a functional classification system for the metropolitan airports system that describes the role of each type of airport. Chapter 2: States the Metropolitan Council's goals and policies for the airport system. Chapter 3: Defines the overall system planning strategies involving polity. implementation and system evaluation. Chapter 4: Provides a development plan for the airports system to We yeaz 2020 based on capaaty and forecast demand for services. Gives system development costs/priorities. Chapter, 5: Describes system implementation, the aviation planning process for the airports system, identifies fiscal implications of the plan, defines the implementation schedule, and details the main responsibilities of the various agencies involved. • The Regional System Reliever Airports Study was undertaken to further the efforts of the development plan set forth in Section 4. It was also designed to re- assess some of the plan's development polity guidelines as they relate to airport expansion. One of the most significant state laws reflected in the Polity Plan prohibits the expansion of an airport from a "minor" to an "intermediate" airport. In conjtmction with this law, the extension of a runway at a minor airport beyond 5,000 feet is not allowed. Under another state law, existing runways cannot be shortened. These restrictions aze important considerations in developing facility recommendations for the region's reliever airport system. . (2) Metro~litan Airports Commission (MAGI The MAC was created in 1943 by the Minnesota ]regislattue to provide for efficient development of air transportation facilities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan azea. Its purpose is "to promote air navigation and transportation -6-