![]() The proposed master plan presented Tuesday is the result of three years of planning that collected input from about 350 community members, 65 meetings with major stakeholders and about 20,000 hours of planning work, according to airport officials. "This airport now, with the expansion of flights and the expansion of international service - and if we jump to Asia, if Delta (Air Lines) gets that - we will truly be one stop from the world with this airport with all the plans," he said. This was done because planners then - as the 1998 illustration shows - figured out a better design to allow planes to move about the runway more efficiently and effectively. This isn't just a document that only helps illustrate the future of the facility, but also flight growth, employment changes, technology improvements and other elements that will dictate future needs.īrady Frederickson, the senior aviation planner for Salt Lake City Corporation, believes the last plan successfully helped transform an airport that served the Intermountain region to one that serves an international economy. This document is important, Wyatt contends, because it helps "paint a picture" of what the next 30 years of Utah's largest airport will look like, much like the picture on the previous master plan helped forecast the creation of the new Salt Lake City International Airport that opened two years ago. Airport staff presented the council with details of the possible first new city airport master plan in at least 24 years. ![]() Within minutes, he was ready to share with the council what planners now picture the future of the airport to look like, two decades after that rendering was drawn. ![]() ![]() "(It) is surprisingly like what we're building right now," said Wyatt, the airport's director, as he held up the large book during a council work session Tuesday. SALT LAKE CITY - Bill Wyatt wanted to show members of the Salt Lake City Council a copy of the last Salt Lake City International Airport master plan - adopted in 1998 - solely so they could see the drawing on its front cover. ![]()
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