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166 Regular Meeting August 24, 1981 Page 4 wOuld employ approximately 100 people and provide one to two million dollars in benefits to the City. They wanted this particular site for exposure to the City. He felt the property in this area was more suitable to industry development that would provide jobs to the com- munity. Representatives from the Chamber of Commerce and Industrial Foundation were present in the audience to show their support of Dana Corporation and Tom Datillo, the legal counsel for Dana Corporation, from Toledo, Ohio was present. Mr. Charles Willis then addressed the Council, stating that the map was prepared in accordance with F.A.A. criteria for a utility airport using a 7-to-1 ratio. Mr. Willis stated the F.A.A. criteria was enact- ed and came about through Federal Regulation Part 77 some time after LoWman Field came into existence. Mr. Willis stated that in order to comply with the F.A.R. 77 criteria as defined on the map the City would actually have to enact some sort of zoning outside its own property, be- cause the runway is approximately a 100 foot strip - that would mean the 7:1 slope would actually begin 75 feet beyond the boundary the city presently has. Mr. Gonzalez then asked if there was a requirement of 250 feet or a requirement to start at the end of the adjacent property, and Mr. Willis said it is 250 feet - 125 feet either side of the center- line and 200 feet from the end of the runway is the other slope. Mrs. Norris moved to amend the Ordinance to be a first reading rather than an emergency reading until the concerns could be resolved and we could obtain more information before the second and third readings and Mr. Brown seconded the motion. Mayor Craddock expressed her con- cern that the only question she had was whether Dana Corporation could conform to F.A.A. requirements to protect the citizens of the commu- nity against any liability. Mr. Willis said the F.A.A. criteria is based on specific safety requirements for airports they spend money on. F.A.A. cannot enact local zoning, only the Council can do that. One of F.A.A.'s requirements for participation in an airport is that it have an airport layout plan and some sort of height hazard zoning, such as the plat presented at this meeting. The fact that F.A.A. has this re- quirement may not necessarily require the City to adopt anything for our airport because there is no F.A.A. participation. It is a utility airport by F.A.A. classification, the smallest category of airports. Their F.A.R. 77 is only enforceable by them if they are participating in an airport or have some other need to enforce it, such as if they install a landing system or where they have a need to protect air space around an airport. F.A.A. has been critical of Lowman Airport in terms of air space safety, its geometry and its lack of expansion capability. Mr. Willis did not know if F.A.A. would offer an opinion as to the lia- bility of zoning at Lowman but that the map furnished by Willis and As- sociates reflected the current criteria. Mr. GOnzalez indicated the developer had pressing needs and he thought it would be better to table the matter rather than require three readings. City Attorney Barbara Edwards stated it would be better to pass on first reading at this meet- ing, and then amend the Ordinance to pass on emergency at the next read- ing and therefore would eliminate the third reading. Mayor Craddock then asked if Mrs. Norris would withdraw her motion, which she did, and then Mrs. Norris moved that this Ordinance be approved on first reading rather than emergency and Mr. Brown seconded the motion. Mr. Paul Heiser, co-partner of Crazy Horse Equipment Company indicated that Dana's structure was not to be any closer to the runway than the Centex building and that if it did not exceed the height of Centex's building, operational-wise there would be no additional hazard and in his opinion it would be safe. Mayor Craddock repeated that Mrs. Norris had made a motion and Mr. Brown had seconded that this Ordinance be approved on first reading. On roll call the vote was unanimous for approval on first reading.