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TO: FROM: RE: DATE: City of Ramsey 15153 NOWTHEN BOULEVARD N.W., RAMSEY, MINNESOTA 55303 • (612) 427-1410 MEMORANDUM Ramsey Airport Commission and Ramsey City Council Merland Otto and Bill Goodrich Airport Zoning November 19, 1986 As you as now doubt aware, in order to proceed with the Airport Project certain land use zoning will need to be accomplished in order to prevent the creation or establishment of airport hazards. MSA 360.061 et al. gives the City the statutory authority to enact the necessary zoning. Specifically, MSA 360.063 Zoning Regulations, lays out basically two methods of accomplishing the necessary zoning. Subd. 1 of 360.063 provides that any municipality having an airport hazard within its territorial limits may enact appropriate airport zoning. The enabling authority granted under this subdivision allows the City to accomplish the zoning, within its territorial limits, on its own without concurrence of any other governmental unit. Subdivision 3 of MSA 360.036 is another method which can be used to adopt the necessary zoning. This subidivision provides for the means by which airport hazards can be prevented which hazards exist both outside and inside of the City's territorial limits. In Ramsey's case, airport hazards do exist in Champlin, Dayton, Anoka, Hennepin and Anoka counties. It will therefore be necessary to extend the airport zoning into these other governmental subdivisions. The statute permits the adoption of zoning regulations in the area in question if the airport is "owned or controlled" by the City. At this point in time, the City cannot be said to own or control the Airport. Assuming that the City can satisfy the owning or controlling test the statute has two means by which the appropriate zoning can be put into place. The first method is for the owning or controlling City to request the other governmental entities to adopt the appropriate