The Roanoke City Council will be briefed during its Monday meeting on two proposed land deals with the Roanoke Regional Airport, but probably will not make any decisions yet.

Both deals have been in the works for months, but Assistant City Manager Brian Townsend said city officials want to bring new council members up to speed.

One of the deals is a land swap that would give the airport some land to further buffer the approach to one of its runways. In return, the airport would trade the city some other land that adjoins the city-owned Countryside Golf Club property.

Valerie Garner, a former council candidate who lives along the golf course and has aggressively advocated for its preservation, said she doesn't think the trade would affect play on the course.

The second deal involves the city's desire to acquire some airport property around the intersection of Aviation Drive and Airport Road. Townsend said the city would like to make traffic improvements to the intersection, which is near Sam's Club.

"Today you can only go in to Aviation [Drive] from Airport [Road]; you can't come back the other way," Townsend said. The deal "would improve that whole intersection there to make it four-way."

Both projects would require the city council's approval. Townsend said, however, that the scheduled agenda items are only briefings and that he doesn't expect a vote to be taken on Monday.

The briefing on the Countryside land swap comes just a couple of weeks before the council is scheduled to have an extensive discussion on what to do with the Countryside Golf Club at its first August meeting.

The city purchased the 140-acre course for $4.1 million in late 2005 with the intention of developing it. A 2002 study suggested the property has development potential for more than 130 single-family homes, about 180 town homes and apartments, a neighborhood center and public/open spaces, as well as some office and commercial use.

But a request for development proposals yielded only one response. The city requested the developer rework the concept and in 2007 received a revised version that recommended 56 acres of "big-box" commercial development. In August the council rejected that plan and renewed its lease with Meadowbrook Golf, the Florida-based company that runs the course, for an additional year. That lease is scheduled to expire this fall.

The Countryside update is to come during the Aug. 4 council meeting.

In other business, on Monday the council will:

n Consider a requested increase in taxi fares. Roanoke's two cab services, Yellow Cab and Quality Cab Co., requested the increase based on rising business costs. The proposal would increase a three-mile trip by $1.40 -- a 16 percent increase. It also would allow the addition of a $1 fuel surcharge if gasoline were to increase to $5 per gallon for more than 30 days.

n Hold an evening public hearing on procedural changes proposed by Mayor David Bowers. The recommendations include giving all speakers five minutes rather than three to address the council -- previously they were allowed five minutes only if there were fewer than five speakers; agreeing that citizens can address the council without registering first; and removing the lectern that is placed in front of the council dais for use by speakers.