War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip

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[Matt Cramer]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip

My evil side hopes to have some of them knock on my door with a petition...

[threedoor]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed

My home town shot down a track about ten years ago on the issue of 'noise'. Somehow they managed to get a law inplace that specifies that no track can be built within 5 miles of city limits. Thankfully one guy took his paintball course out of their tax jurisdiction and added a motorcross track right at the 5 mile line, on top of a hill that is about 1800 feet higher than town and now you can hear the fun everywhere on race day! The smarties in the city council also shot down a proposed steel mill that would have hired about 1400 people in a town of 30,000. Dumb asses.

[truckpuller]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip

A guy tried to put in a circle track about 10 west of me, 5 or 6 miles north of town and they shot him down stating noise and traffic problems, there would have been 3 hard surfaced roads to get to the track only one going through the town.

[BOOOGHAR]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip

reminds me of a line from the movie HOT FUZZ - "Its for the greater good"

[milner351]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip

This reminds me of a few other debates:

Everybody says we need more power generation - but nobody wants a nuke plant in their back yard.
now - some folks dont' even want wind mills within certain distances of towns.... wtf is bothersome about a windmill?

Everybody wants another airport around Chicago - but - nobody wants it in their back yard.


Everybody wants to help small business and promote local commerce - but nobody wants a race track close to their town
again - wtf?
can you imagine the increase in hotel and restaurant traffic with a race track a short distance from your town?
How about fueling stations? - those trucks pulling trailers have to fuel up somewhere...
and - the track itself - they'll hire at least a handfull of folks, pay taxes on land that was likely otherwise unused, etc.

I guess we're still fighting the "hotrod" bad reputation the GI's had to deal with when they returned from WWII and started this great hobby of ours in earnest.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip

Windmills create low frequency noise that both travels far and causes a range of symptoms from headaches to upset stomachs. Or so an article I read in North Dakota that was front page news. It's apparently subtle, but there.

[Brad54]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed

What's odd is that Social Circle has a pretty big vintage vehicle cruise every week during the summer. Cars line up and park around the old Town Square.

How horrible that someone wants to set up a money-making venture within the city limits that would bring revenue to the city's businesses.

-Brad

[PatricksDad]

Re: War on Racetracks: Social Circle Residents Form Opposition Group to Proposed Drag Strip

Welcome to 2010.

Out - NIMBY
"Not in my backyard"

IN - BANANA
"Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything"