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CONTINUATION OF AIRPORT ZONING HEARING FROM DEC. 3, 1973 The hearing was reopened on January 7th at 7:00 bM Mr. Murphy. Present were Mr. Cox, Mr. Hopperstad, Mr. Pittman, Mr. Barstow, Mr. Reimann, Mr. Springer, Mr. Ermmans, Mr. Bodle, Mr. Chapman and Mrs. Guy. Mr. Dick Johnson spoke explaining the airport zoning matter. He showed a zoning map for the airport. Basically they are talking about the height of objects that could be constructed within this area. Thirty feet from the runway they may construct one foot in height. At 5000 feet it goes up to 150 feet in height. In order to go beyond these limits a variance would have to be obtained from the local government. If the local government feels a hardship would take place, they can grant the variance. In such case the airport would be allowed to place a light upon the top of such a structure at the expense of the airport. They are reducing tile length of the runway from 2850 feet to the minimum of 2500 feet. This will permit a ten foot structure to be built at the north boundary of the airport. The shaded area on the map would permit a ten foot structure but less .than 20 foot. Mr. William S. Rosen, attorney for Mr. Menkveld, who owns land at the north edge of the airport, was present. He said there was not any way he could go ahead with this meeting tonight because he had not received information he had requested in time to prepare for this meeting. Mr. Dick Johnson said all this information and the zoning map had been picked up by Mr. Craig, who is in the employ of Mr. Menkveld, on the preceding Friday. Mr. Cox read alou~ to those presen~ the letter the attorney had written Mr. Johnson and he read Mr. Johnson's reply to each item in his letter to Mr. Rosen. Mr. Menkveld arrived at this point and was asked whether he wanted the meeting to go on or to be postponed on account of his attorney. He stated it did not matter to him. Mr. Roger Tenley has just moved in near the airport. He said he had lived near another airport before coming here and was very dis- enchanted with living near an airport. He was aaked why he had moved near another airport if he felt this way about airports. Mr. Tores objected to the airport because of noise and fear of pos- sible accidents. There has been only one accident so far and this was in taking off and due to carelessness, taking off into the wind. Mr. Ted Anderson said he was confused about the airport. He was told he was more likely to get killed in his car than by an airplane. Someone else stated they were much more disturbed about the snowmo- biles that were running around on his place. Mr. Winslow Holasek asked if the zoning map had been changed. He told the runway had been ~rtened from 2850 feet to 2500 feet. was Prestressed Concrete: Mr. Earl Brink, the president was here. He said he feels more time should be given to the study of the zoning map.