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Background: c sz # Airport Zoning On October 13, 1987, the City Council adopted an Airport Land Use Safety Zoning Ordinance. This was subsequently brought to a referendum election and was defeated. The Ordinance was, thus, not placed into effect. An opinion was sought from the Attorney General's office regarding the effect of the election on the Ordinance. That opinion was received December 20, 1989 and in essence sustained the public's right to approve or void a land use (legislative) ordinance. A copy of the opinion is attached. We transmitted a copy of the AG's opinion to Mn/DOT on December 21, 1989 and requested several clarifications or responses from them regarding 1) the impact on an airport project, 2) commissioner's inclination to place airport zoning in effect if requested to do so, 3) whether this would jeopardize funding or cost sharing on the airport. We anticipate a response from them by January 23. My memo of April 22, 1988 (attached) outlined options available to the City regarding implementation of airport zoning. Options 1, 2 and 5 are no longer valid as a result of the AG's opinion. Consider Initiating Airport Improvement Program Jack Ippel and I met with FAA, Mn/~DOT and MA~ on , 1989 to ascertain the various agencies' commitment to the airport improvement project. Discussion at this meeting indicated that federal funding would not be available for airport improvements until at least October 1, 1991 or 1992 (federal FY 1992 or 1993). FAA's position has consistently been that no federal funds would be allocated for the project until such time that landfill activities cease. As a result of the earlier meeting, Mn/DOT requested a meeting. On December 20, Jack Ippel and I met with Mn/DOT officials to discuss the status of the airport project with them. · We reviewed the overall situation regardlng:.~ / 1) 2) 3) 5) status of plan approvals status of airport zoning status of existing landfill operations status of Site P selection Possible staging concepts for acquisition to permit initial state/local funding with future AIP reimbursement. Mn/DOT indicated at that meeting that they would be willing to proceed with an acquisition program with a first phase of approximately one million dollars. This, however, is conditioned on the city: 1) committing to a one-third cost share for Phase I, 2) reviewing and, if feasible, planning for a crosswind runway.