Originally Posted by Lowlife517:
Sad news indeed. Hopefully a new track can be constructed in the valley to place it. This reminds me all to well about Santa Fe Speedway. When it was first built there was nothing around it. Then as time when by $400,000 on up to $1,000,000 homes where constructed closer and closer to it. All these people moved there knowing there was a racetrack in close proximity but still complained about the noise. Developers ended up buying the property around it to build more homes and eventually, I believe the principal owner died leaving it to his kids and they sold it to the developers. But the developer didnt get the chunk of change he was hoping for out of the property because the mass site cleanup that would have to be done from years of oil and who knows what else getting dumped onto the ground and now it is a parking lot for a school bus company. So much history being lost everywhere you go these days. What about going to a historical society and trying to get historical status for some of these racetracks that have been around for years. They do it for other historical sites in the country. Why not racetracks?
They have to present something of value to a community or the nation and racetracks are generally not looked upon as that.
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All these people moved there knowing there was a racetrack in close proximity but still complained about the noise
I singled out this statement for one particular reason. What needs to be done (and MUST be done) is a who was there first ruling. It's not only racetracks that suffer but also farmers, and people who have lived in an area long before these rich people move out there. I guess the old adage "First come First served" means nothing anymore. It's more like" Who ever has the most money get's their way.