Item A: Ordinance on Airport Master Plan

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weight limitations. When temperatures reached 80 degrees, Allegiant Airlines had to remove passengers from the airplanes and the airport had to reimburse the airlines for empty seats. He stated the friendly character of the airport was beneficial when recruiting airlines to fly into the Eugene Airport. He explained it was against federal law for the airport to restrict the type of aircraft that could use the airport. Due to the size of the community, the airport would always be a smaller airport, which would encourage maintaining the friendly environment. Mr. Smith concurred there was a trend toward regional aircraft, which were not as efficient as they would appear to be. It was unlikely that the airport would propose extending the runway lengths since they were required to go through a justification process to encourage the FAA to support the expansion. The intent was to illustrate the need for the longer runway to accommodate aircraft currently flying into the Eugene Airport. Ms. Warnes observed the Envision Eugene process would likely extend into 2011. She asked if the airport master plan update process could wait until Envision Eugene was completed since it impacted so many communities. Mr. Nystrom said the Envision Eugene process would likely impact evaluation of lands within the UGB expansion rather than those within the existing UGB. The areas under discussion would likely be at the extreme edges of the cone shaped airspace protection area for the airport. Planning staff had preliminary conversations with airport staff regarding the Envision Eugene process and would coordinate acquisition of lands within the City. The area covered by the airspace protection zone consisted of a large swath of west Eugene and the master plan area was likely already covered. Ms. Beierle opened the Eugene Planning Commission public hearing at 7:03 p.m. Mr. Noble opened Lane County Planning Commission public hearing at 7:03 p.m. There was no one who wished to offer public testimony. Ms. Beierle closed the Eugene Planning Commission public hearing. Mr. Noble closed Lane County Planning Commission public hearing. Ms. Beierle called for questions from commissioners. Ms. Schultz stated there was a diagram of the safety overlay zone on page 6A, exhibit 6-3, in plan, which illustrated how extensive the airspace overlay zone extended. Ms. Beierle opened the floor to deliberations. Mr. Belcher, seconded by Ms. Warnes, moved to remove the recommen- dation that the automobile parking be expanded until actual usage num- bers demonstrated the current facility reached capacity more often than a few times a year. MINUTES June 1, 2010 Page 7 Joint Public Hearing of the City of Eugene and Lane County Planning Commissions