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Article: Eden Prairie resists expansion at its airport; The Metropolitan Airports Commission says extending two runways at Flying Cloud Airport would benefit the city.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1998
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Neighbors of the Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie have frowned for years on a Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) plan to expand two parallel runways and build a new hangar.
They fear it may cause an increase in noise at the reliever airport, which they say MAC officials promised in 1978 not to touch. Not only does the expansion go against the city's master plan, which calls for developing single-family homes and parkland where new runway protection zones could go, but it also could mean millions of dollars in lost property tax revenue, said Ron Case, an Eden Prairie City Council member.
Officials at the MAC counter that expansion is instrumental ...
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