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City Council Meeting Minutes May 14, 2019 Page2of7 controllers, and pilots for this to work. Superior and Louisville can ask for a change to the flight plans but unless those others agree to it nothing will change They are trying to build relationships and collaboration with the industry side for this reason He reviewed the tasks of the project: a baseline assessment, community engagement, industry engagement, and strategy development. The baseline assessment has been completed Community engagement is ongoing as is industry engagement. The industry response has been very positive For strategy development they are working on possible changes to operational procedures, education, and outreach so pilots know the impacts on the neighbors. They are also looking at how land use and planning development is affected by the airport operations. Schwartz noted key findings. the airport has seen consistent growth from 2015, the impacts to Louisville are primarily from approaches and departures activity About 70% of the complaints from Louisville are from propeller operations and 20% from jet operations He reviewed the mitigation strategies. He stated they are looking at raising the pattern altitude to 1000 feet and looking for ways to access the airport without flying directly over Louisville Policies and procedures are being reviewed as well The process will include education and outreach to the flight schools, pilots, and air traffic controllers He reviewed next steps and the implementation schedule Councilmember Maloney stated it appears the strategies are for mitigation not elimination Schwartz stated if they can find strategies to reduce the number of flights over Louisville and the noise level that would be ideal, but it is not in their power to reduce the number of flights outright. Councilmember Maloney asked what the outreach looks like Schwartz reviewed how they have been answering calls and publishing information for residents. Hogan added the City's website now has more information and FAQs as well as contact information for staff and noise complaints for the airport. In addition, they are planning a community workshop for July Councilmember Maloney stated he wants to make sure the community feels they are being heard in the beginning so they can affect the final process. Councilmember Stolzmann said she gets complaints in Ward 3 about the amount of noise and the increase in noise. Many people complain about it but they don't formally contact the airport with the complaint. She added she often gets the question about why the planes don't fly over Rocky Flats rather than homes. Jim Allerdice from ABCx2 stated that area is defined as not safe because it is too close to the mountains when flying by instrument control If flying by visual control that might be allowed He noted many other factors come into play including the type of aircraft, weather, and other conditions Allerdice stated the best options are to find corridors for ingress and egress but we will need the airport and tower to agree to those as it would be voluntary compliance