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Published on: 5/12/2009
Last Visited: 8/6/2009
Also present: City Manager Isaac Turner, City Attorney Robert Anderson, City Clerk Lori Stelzer, Recording Secretary Susan Schult, and for certain items on the agenda: Airport Director Fred Watts and Lisa Mastropieri and Dennis Yap of DY Consultants.
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Mr. Watts welcomed everyone, stated this is the second workshop on the Master Plan update, the focus of this workshop is to collect public input, all comments will be documented, and introduced DY Consultants Lisa Mastropieri, Dennis Yap, Angelique Costa and Bill DeGraaff.
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Mr. Yap gave a brief professional biography on the DY team and explained the workshop overview as working toward the establishment of city goals and objectives to shape the framework of the study.
He described the planning process of the study that focuses on constructive discussions regarding the future of the airport with no preconceived intentions and developing a vision for the airport by providing a framework for decision making.
The goals are to provide an objective analysis of alternative visions and to assist the decision makers toward developing a vision that is satisfactory to all.
Mr. Yap stated this project is not funded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and is not considered a master plan, the study does not follow the FAA standards for master planning, and the intent is to provide a document that summarizes the analysis and evaluation of three potential visions for the airport.
He reviewed the challenges facing the airport and the community, such as lack of perceived sensitivity to the community and vision for the master plan, the traditional FAA planning process not working, and the absence of a current master plan.
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Mr. Yap reviewed potential general visions and alternatives including minimizing community impacts regardless of aviation traffic, and complying with standards for existing and forecasted traffic.
He talked about the alternatives selected for further study including environmental concerns, residential neighbors, runways, operations management and airport facilities, and touched on how these concerns would be developed and evaluated.
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Mr. Yap noted the two prevalent issues are how to design the airport and whether the city will restrict certain aircraft.