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. . . a potential landfill site. '!be Metro Council is in the process of selling bonds which will be used to do the Enviromental IIrp:lct Study. Late this year, or in the early p:lrt of next year, the County will soope each of the 3 sites and assess which one is to be recc:mrended. Olainran Ippel stated that he has been told that the 3 sites are to be assessed frar the scure level but it will be taken into oonsideration that Site P does have an airp;>rt in the vicir:dty. COMMISSION INPUT Qmrissioner Siebert quoted excerpts frar the follCMing: 1. Aviation Adds $2 Billion To Eoonaty, Me.tro !rk>nitor, Septerber 1985 - ''!be facts and figures (X)ffle frar a .Metropolitan Council study done this year in connection with the UPdating of the Council's policy plan for the region's airport syster. General aViation - business, private and pleasure flying - also contribures substantially to the econaty of the region, the report said. Besides $43 zril1ion in direct and indirect wages, it's estiIrated to bring about $55 willion in other expenditures. While sare general aviation takes place at the International Airport, wost occurs at the region's araller airports. A 1984 study of one of those - Flying Cloud Airport - shCMed that the surrouning Eden Prairie area benefited directly frar the location of the airport. 'lbe airport had 193 ElI'pl~ees with an annual payrol of $3.6 willion. '!be purchase of local goods and services all'ounted to $632,0001 taxes pilid were $275,400. Another sep:lrate study was done earlier of the St. Paul Downtam Airp:>rt. It shCMed 328 EWpl~ees with a payroll of $6.5 willion, purchases of godds and services totalling $2.5 willion, and taxes pilid of about $223 ,000. " 2. Article Contained in Denver Business, Septerber 1985 Issue - "one of the JrOst narrowly target-warketed projects underway in the area is the 280 acre Front Range Airport Park at I-70 and Quail Run Road, 10 wiles east of Aurora Business Center. 1lle proj ect, which is teing put together ~ Boettcher Developrent Inc. is being built around the year-Old Front Range Airport. 1lle first Iilase, according to developer Barry Boettcher, is being warketed alwost eXClusiVely to a narrowly defined group of potential users whose businesses rEquire imredi.ate access to an airport: high-tech fims who ship p:lrts across the nation and aircraft service <XI[Ip:lnies, for exawple. '!be initial developrent Iilase of 50 acres is planned for build-out of 620,000 s:auare feet. AlJrost all of that building Sp:lce, according to Boettcher, will have taxiway access to the airport runways. Boettcher acknowledges the large-scale <Xl[lpetition in the oorridor's industrial warket, but says specifics are key. 'Sure, there's an awful lot of industrial ground between us and !rk>ntbell, I Boettcher says, lbut it's very difficult to taxi an aircraft into 21l1Y of those industrial ];Brks.' Whatever the extent of change in the oorridor, warket observers say developrent is round to oontinue." Chaiman Ippel stated that he attended the last Econaric Developrent CarIrission lI'eeting and thE!{ voted to reccmrend that City Council endorse the Airport Master Plan. APPROVAL OF AIRPORT CDMMISSION ~ MINUTES Septerber 18, 1985 Page 3 of 4