Metropolitan Sytems Information Statement 1989

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Three other groups represented smaller percentages of total employment. Construction represented only 4 percent of jobs regionwide, but twice that percentage in Scott County. Most areas had relatively small percentages of their jobs in transportation/communications and public utilities; the Metropolitan area's percentage was 5 percent. Finance, insurance, and real estate accounted for 7.6 percent of employment regionwide, less than 3 percent in Anoka and Scott counties, and more than • 11 percent in Minneapolis. Government (12 percent in the Metropolitan area) was 17 percent of the total in Carver County and in St. Paul. The population of the Twin Cities Metropolitan region (including Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties) grew from 1,985,873 in 1980 to 2,205,492 in 1988, representing an 11 percent increase. Major development corridors in the region occur to the west, along the interstate highway system and near Lake Minnetonka, although new development on a smaller scale occurs throughout the region. Table I-1 shows a comparison of historical and projected data for employment and population in the Twin Cities area. Employment and demographics will be influential in a number of areas in the remainder of this study. Chapter II, Reliever Forecasts, addresses these issues more completely. 2. EXISTING AIRPORT SYSTEM The existing system consists of MSP, its seven designated reliever airports, and 14 other general aviation airports. The reliever airports in the metropolitan area are intended to reduce congestion at MSP by providing general aviation pilots with alternative landing and training areas. The study area airports are categorized by FAA aircraft design groups. These criteria are presented in Exhibit I-3. The system airports are described in the following sections. I-5