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WTF. Isn't this some sort of harassment? People are basically casing and scouting your property under the instruction of the Trustee. That's f'n weird.
The Shop
Good luck when the noise complaints start coming in.
We run a private MX club and despite still being able to ride, our legal battle with the township ended up limiting us quite a bit.
Keep that noise thing in check because they'll be looking for anything...
I also went through the same thing for over two years, I'll try to post the pictures of an article they did in the Landowner Magazine of my story. I also have all the documents and court files if anyone needs them to help them in a similar situation.
And while it may sound negative to you, I simply try to see both points of view and can understand how a neighbor might be pissed as hell at a new guy building a MX track. In truth, I am all for individual rights, but there is more than one individual involved and to simply side with a guy that builds a track because you ride a dirt bike, well that is blind obedience. To point out the "other" perspective is only seeing things from more than a single point of view.
On another note, I am not kidding about the google earth thing. Insurance companies will do stuff like that. A friend of mine got hit by his because he had a trampoline in his yard. A motocross track will probably get a much bigger response than he got, especially if it is undisclosed.
Freedom of Information Act utilized...this audio clip is the recording of the June 9, 2015 Schoolcraft Township Board Meeting...Must listen to: GO TO 2:00:27 in the audio file and listen to these board members develop a plan to target and harass my family...these elected officials sound much more like a group of people having a conversation at a bar with the intention of plotting on "someone"...unbelievable! If their comments and intentions are not criminal and/or an abuse of power I don't know what is...I ask you, what say YOU? Enough is enough.
Pit Row
Listen to Allen Family vs Schoolcraft Township Board by Curtis Allen #np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/curtis-allen-25/allen-family-vs-schoolcraft-town…
Freedom of Information Act utilized after three courts in Kalamazoo County have ruled in the Allen Family's behalf...people are stopping by our house, along the road, approaching from the sides of our property and overtly video taping and obviously trying to cause a disturbance...this audio clip is the recording of the June 9, 2015 Schoolcraft Township Board Meeting...Must listen to: GO TO 2:00:27 in the audio file and listen to these board members develop a plan to target and harass my family...these elected officials sound much more like a group of people having a conversation at a bar with the intention of plotting on "someone"...unbelievable! If their comments and intentions are not criminal and/or an abuse of power I don't know what is.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_GUejV4njHgYkZIaGwwUzRJdjA/view
One thing I'd do for sure is go buy some trail cams and no trespassing signs and set them up around your property. You might be surprised what you find. I'm sure these fine citizens are crawling all over your stuff. These people are unreal
I never let my insurance company know I had a track, and no one ever got hurt badly there. That could create other headaches.
Looking on Google earth at this track location, I can see some neighbors are pretty close, within a few hundred yards at most. I can see why they might bitch.
I hope I can afford 500 acres in the middle of nowhere someday. I will build one bad ass track.
Mike
Had one house about 300 meters away, my neighbour tractor Trev and his young family. Dairy farmers they were. They insisted that they never even heard us ride, but nobody had four strokes then.
In any case I chose not to accept his word for it that it didn't bother him and he never really heard us.
I maintained fairly strict rules in regards to our activities. I mostly used the rut track in summer, I could water it, so we had a snotty deeply rutted and moist track to practice on in the hot months when there is no racing on anywhere. My friends had to be at my place by a certain time in the morning, ready to ride, there were never usually any more than about 5 of us .They got a 15 min practice session , then we would race two
30 min motos with 30 min inbetween . That way the whole thing was done inside a two hour period, no more noise for the rest of the day.
Supercross track only got used infrequent and mostly in the cooler months.
Good luck to you with your track. Perhaps you could try my method. Even post a sign on your boundaries stating the time of day from start to finish that your track will operate, keep it down to a couple hours and stick to it. This might calm down some of the complainers.
It's not a good idea to have people riding any old time they like across an entire day.
Do what I did and really enforce the rules, some of your riders will whine... Tough taties!
It can be a real psychological head f##k to your neighbours if they can hear bikes all day, offensively loud or barely audible, no difference. If they know that after say 11 am they are not gonna hear a bike, they might accept it and move on
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