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2. The Big Challenge Protect the Airport System
3. The Minnesota ExperienceA Practitioners View
The Bundle of Benefits
Aircraft Safety; Passengers
People and Property on the Ground
Address Noise
Stabilize Property Values / Compatible Land Use
4. Needs
Start thinking in terms of COMMUNITY not Aviation
5. Elements
What do we need to know and understand?
6. Public Safety
7. Elements What do we need to know and understand?
First
Aviation IS SAFE, but we need to prepare for the worst.
Second
Understand the Federal, State, and Local Relationships
9. Background Inland Water Transportation System (1840-1870)
Rail Transportation System (1860-1925)
Highway Transportation System (1916-Present)
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1916
10. Air Commerce Act of 1926 Established . . . Complete and exclusive national sovereignty in the airspace above the United States. . . . (airspace, aircraft, aviators, and air traffic).
Left control of individual airports to municipal authorities to promote local competition and initiative.
11. Elements What do we need to know and understand?
First
Aviation IS SAFE, but we need to prepare for the worst.
Second
Understand the Federal, State, and Local Relationships
Third
Model State Airport Zoning Act
12. Model State Airport Zoning Act
Zoning and Police Power
Takings / Inverse Condemnation
13. Doolittle Commission 1952
Presidents Airport Commission (Harry S Truman)
Chaired by James H. Doolittle
Resulting Report =
The Airport and Its Neighbors
116 pages
14. The Airport and Its Neighbors
5. Establish effective zoning laws
15. 5. Establish effective zoning laws A fan shaped zone, beyond the clear area defined in item 4
At least 2 miles long
6,000 feet wide at outer limits
Eliminate erection of places of public assembly
Restrict residences to distant locations in the zone
(the basis for Minnesota Airport Zoning)
16. Minnesota Standard Zones
17. The Airport and Its Neighbors #3
Change the way we do airport business to include the local political jurisdictions
18. Summary
Responsibility is left with State & Local Governments - for now
No Zoning, No Comprehensive Planning No Federal Funds
19. Questions? Mike Louis
Planning Director / Zoning Administrator
Mn/DOT Office of Aeronautics
651-296-9869
mike.louis@state.mn.us