Classic Helicopter Corporation is at Boeing Field.

It wants to move Auburn Municipal Airport and there develop a permanent structural addition, with offices and hangars.

To make that happen, the company says it needs temporary hangar space — and of that, there’s not much there.

That’s why the City Council on Monday night gave Mayor Nancy Backus the authority to negotiate and execute a lease with Classic Helicopter Corporation that would enable it to set up that temporary hangar space.

Owner F. Gregory Baker wants to bring in a semi-portable building of about 3,000 square feet, which would remain for several years until the company completes its permanent structures.

Temporary hangars like the one Classic Helicopter wants to build, which are in use at Boeing Field, cost as much as $60,000 to $70,000, and can take six-to-eight weeks to deliver, and Baker has been concerned that he can’t afford to put that much money down on a temporary hangar without assurance from the City that it would even approve a lease.

The plan is for the formal lease agreement to substantially meet Baker’s terms and include key City milestones, including a date by which the temporary hangar would have to be gone.

“The idea is to keep us all on track and on target for moving toward that permanent situation while we have a temporary lease situation with them,” said Kevin Snyder, director of Community Development and Public Works for the City of Auburn.

In addition to flight schools, Classic Helicopter conducts tours, charters and sells its products throughout the Puget Sound region.