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-2- <br />JOINT ZONING BOARD PROCEDURES FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION <br />(Submit documents, FORMS 1-9 and EXHIBITS A, B, C, D, E, <br />relating the following steps as soon as they are drated) <br />1. Airport owner requests county and municipality in writing by <br />CERTIFIED MAIL to join in creating a joint airport zoning <br />board. See FORM NO. 1. <br />2. Municipality, county and owner each pass a resolution creating <br />the joint zoning board and each appoint a maximum of two members <br />to said board to serve until they are replaced by their <br />appointing authority. See FORM NOS. 2, 3 and 4. <br />NOTE: Cities of the first class (population 100,000, such as Duluth) <br />which own or control an airport, shall appoint four members <br />(instead of two) to the joint zoning board. <br />3. The appointed members elect an additional person who is to <br />serve as chairman. <br />4. The zoning board, working with an attorney and an engineer, <br />submit a draft ordinance and map to the Minnesota Department <br />of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (Mn/DOT will <br />furnish a model ordinance and map to be used as guidance). <br />5. Mn/DOT will review and advise the zoning board on the draft <br />proposal before public hearing. <br />6. Zoning board passes a resolution declaring this ordinance to <br />be their proposed ordinance, setting a date and place for <br />public hearing. See FORM NO. 5. <br />NOTE: If an Established Residential Neighborhood (ERN) in a Built - <br />Up Urban Area exists, the zoning board must note the requirement <br />of Minnesota Statutes 360.066, Subd. 1 a (a) and (d) (1978) that <br />certain prohibited land uses (See Model Ordinance, V B 5 <br />EXEMPTIONS) must be acquired, altered or removed at public expense. <br />In the event that a prohibited land use exists in an Established <br />Residential Neighborhood, the zoning board shall so notify the <br />airport owner at least 60 days prior to the first hearing on <br />adoption of the ordinance. <br />The airport owner shall then consider the alternatives of closing <br />a runway, runway realignment or relocation, runway extension or <br />shortening and displaced thresholds and shall then promptly <br />notify the local zoning authority in writing, if it proposes to <br />take any of such alternative actions. <br />7. The zoning board shall give mailed notice of the hearing as follows: <br />a. At least 15 days before the hearing to any persons in <br />municipalities who own land proposed to be included in <br />safety zones A and B, (See EXHIBITS B, C, D) and <br />b. To the governing body of each political subdivision whose <br />4 <br />1 <br />