89-7553R13
RESOLUTION NO. 7553
RESOLUTION REGARDING A
RUNWAY USE SYSTEM
AT
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
WHEREAS, any runway use system at Minneapolis/St. Paul
International Airport (MSP Airport) must recognize that all areas
surrounding MSP Airport benefit from its proximity and all areas
must share in the overflights, and
WHEREAS, any change from the present system will require.
extensive environmental review and thus must be clearly fair to
all involved, and
WHEREAS, the proposed Runway Use System (RUS) does not
correct the fundamental problem of the present Preferential
Runway System since it still provides for unlimited overflights
over some nearby residential areas and total exemptions for other
similar areas when traffic levels, wind conditions and runway
conditions permit.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Richfield
requests that MASAC recommend and the MAC approve a runway use
system that within the limits of the safe, efficient operation of
the airport would first direct as much air traffic Southeast of
the airport (arrive on Runways 29 Left and. Right; depart on
Runways 11 Left and Right) as could be contained in the corridors
the affected communities have zoned for overflights, and secondly
place the remaining traffic as equally as possible on the other
four runways, all of which overfly similar nearby residential
areas.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Richfield this
25th day of September, 1989.
ATTEST:
Thomas P. Ferber City Clerk