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145 of aircraft to be those such as the Fairchild F27; this is the exact aircraft which the Lawrence Livermore Lab has been flying out of the airport for twenty years and that is the largest category that will use the Airport. The main runway will be 5,250 feet in length to accommodate that category of aircraft fully loaded. Eventually small feeder line aircraft may be supportable as existing business parks develop and if and when that time comes the Airport Master Plan would have to be amended, but only after the appropriate environ- mental clearances are obtained. Mayor Turner stated the Livermore Municipal Airport serves the east county area; approximately 13% of the aircraft belong to Pleasanton residents and/or businesses. The Airport is an irreplaceable asset that Livermore is trying to protect by: (1) buying approach lands to the east and west; (2) planning and constructing improvements that are prsently in demand and are needed for the future; and (3) zoning adjacent lands for compatible land uses. Aviation is an essential transportation element for modern business, industry and to society generally. Livermore will do everything necessary to minimize adverse impacts consistent with an airport which is committed to providing the needed air service to the Valley. He asked the Pleasanton City Council to dedicate their efforts to preventing more residential encroachments to the west of the Airport. He stated that if the Pleasanton City Council perceives a problem in the Meadows area and then concurrently permits residential development and a school site to be located even closer to the airport; then they are inconsis- tent; if Council applies pressure against needed airport services and at the same time allows encroachments they are jeopardizing the rights of future generations, businesses and industries, from benefiting from the economics, conveniences, and flexibilities of air service in the Valley. Mayor Turner stated that Livermore Airport's good neighbor program during the last year has been quite effective as judged by the significantly reduced number and heights of overflights of residential areas west of the Airport. He stated they are dedicated to a continuing program which includes the fol- lowing: (1) signs have been placed at the run-up areas to alert pilots to noise sensitive areas to the east and west of the airport and asking them for their cooperation; (2) counseling new tenants on the Good Neighbor Program; (3) Airport management is responding to noise complaints and seeks to identify any violators and counsel them; (4) letters have been sent to all airport ten- ants, FBO's corporation users, Bay Area Airports and Flight Schools alerting them to the noise sensitive areas; (5) information notices have been posted at various locations around the Airport; (6) notices are being published in the various user group publications; (7) a monitoring program of traffic depart- ment to the west is being made from time to time on peak activity days; (8) the City of Livermore has entered into an Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration which will allow the FAA to install a Precision Approach Path Indicator system on Runway 7L; and (9) the most recent appointment to the Air- port Commission was a non-pilot. Mayor Turner stated that the City of Livermore is dedicated in providing a first-class transportation facility that can be used by Valley residents and businesses and that can fit in with neighboring communities and will continue to look at ways in which the Airport will be a good neighbor and they will participate with Pleasanton in cooperative efforts to meet this objective. He asked for the same cooperation from the City of Pleasanton. He requested Council to assign a City staff personnel, preferably the City Manager, to work - 7 3-15-88