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So I read an article on KSLTV.com on a coming motocross track closure the city council voted to close 4-1. Sad to hear of this happening. Same old complaints of dust and noise. Said the city council meeting was packed with citizens against the track, including one lady who brought video footage of the dust on her backyard, and vehicles from the track. Unreal!!
I tried to post the link to this, it is easy to find, I guess I don't know how to post it, so please somebody post the link and y'all can see the article.
Lastly, I thought Utah was (is) the state that likes to brag about it outdoor sports running the ads to promote this. Sad it's not really a reality.
I went to a council meeting where the county wanted to ban private tracks. They had poor children with health issues, and lots noise and parties that went on all day that the neighbors complained about. Turns out it was a couple of kids in a KLX110 that would putt around after school once in a while. It was really about a Realtor and a land developer trying to make more money. They were "allegedly" in cohorts with the commissioners and made up a bunch of false information to support a narrative. Even the police/ sheriff's deputies had said it wasn't an issue and the track owner was essentially being harassed. I still think the ban might have passed, except an elderly woman pointed out that as written, the ban would prevent her from using her quad to spray the noxious weeds along her fence line resulting in her getting fined.
From what I am reading the houses were all there first in this case. Feel terrible for the track owner.
That’s pretty ballsy if true. Looks like a cool track but you should know you’re gonna piss someone off if you build it that close to their house…
Is this the track the county was all for a few months ago? Did someone get voted out?
I'm sure the rodeo and demolition derby can kick up all the noise and dust they want...
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Homes were there first...it's hard not to sympathize with the homeowners...and it was dumb to build a track that close to homes in the first place...but I get so annoyed when they start bringing out "health issues" and "needing clean air" as a reason to close it down...its dust, not nuclear fall out, its not unhealthy...but it sure makes a great exaggerated talking point when trying to lobby government...so disingenuous.
This is just another NIMBY track closure...
i mean... Fairview has about 1200 people, hardly a big time news article here.
1/10 would not click again
The only people who don’t mind the dust from a motocross track are people who like motocross.
She has every right to complain. Dust is annoying especially when it is seemingly unnecessary.
Just imagine an unnecessary source of dust that also happens to be an unnecessary source of erratic noise.
If the homes were actually there before the track, they have a legitimate gripe. If the track was legal and everything I don't think that it should be shut down, but I'd be annoyed if someone popped up a concert venue right next to my place. Is the noise going to kill me? Surely not, but it would ne annoying as hell.
I have enjoyed motocross for 55 years, but I would not want to put up with a track that close to my home either. Let the downvotes rain o’er me !
Utah is also the state that wants to sell off all Public Land so that us peasants have less places to recreate.
Lots of smoke and mirrors with the Utah folks. But don't worry.... they'll keep electing the same douche bags over and over again because all of them choose to read and follow the same fairy tale book.
I looked at old aerials from the place and some houses that are seen in the photos posted above were there in the 90s and from what I can tell the track was just built a year or two ago. I can’t believe it ever got this far.
I’ll be up that way in 2 weeks, does this mean I can ride my Stark?! 😂
Seriously though, I must be getting old because I would not be stoked having a moto track near my house. There’s a kid in my neighborhood that rides his Kx250f WFO up and down the streets daily and I’m ready to go yell at him that he’s giving us a bad name, and to get off my lawn.
At what point can somebody who is a developer... develop a neighborhood for motocrossers??... meaning that the track is a community track... and cannot be shutdown... I'm a fight fire with fire kind of person and i despise developers with the same level of hate i have for HOA's...(But id be willing to work with a developer to make this happen).
We need to do what the car racing community has done with thermal, except make it about idk 50 times cheaper or 100times cheaper... make the homes say 250k to 500k
buy all the land, build multiple tracks.. sell homes around said track with like minded individuals only who cannot sue.. (put it in the HOA), since you cant really sue them out of operating in the united states and go from there.
There is a place like that. Also in Utah
Seems about right…
I thought mormans were cooler than that
Sell of “all public land”? Come on bro, you’re better than that…though I disagree, adamantly, with selling ANY public land, nobody said anything about selling “all public land”, the proposal was for .75% (3/4ths of 1%) of public land (3 million acres) within 5 miles of cities (or something like that) and you know this…so don’t do the same disingenuous BS (talking in exaggerated extremes to make their point) the greenie groups do to sway public opinion….
Meh, that was just a matter of time. His land has to be worth a lot more than he would ever make running a track. Sell the land, pocket some profit. Buy more land 10 miles away and start up a new track. Problem solved. Nothing to see here...
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Looks like a nice place to ride!
Don't trust the government.
In my state of ohio state park lands represents .77% (3/4 of 1 percent) of all total land, yet the government thought it was necessary to open this land for oil and gas drilling. The money that was to be earned from leases and royalties was ear-marked for state park improvements when that law was passed.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago when the government signed the new state budget that moves that money into the parks general operating budget, we won't be getting any park improvements from it. Instead the oil and gas money will be used in the state general budget to offset the $1 billion shortfall from a new flat tax scheme and $600 million given to the Browns to build a new dome stadium. Meanwhile the owner of the Browns just bought a $25 million house in Florida last week.
If gas gets to $2 a gallon like I was promised the next line will be that there's operating budget shortfalls for the parks and they need sold.
That was just this time around man.
Mike Lee and his scum bags have been trying different angles for years to get Public Land into state control and thus sold off.
Don’t kid yourself that they only want or will stop at .75% or whatever number they threw out.
Like I said though, thanks to the good folks in Utah and their blind loyalty we’ll get to continue to fight that cock sucker Mike Lee until he dies.
Yes it's well known from that post frome someone about 3 weeks ago or so, that in the big beautiful bill that passed, senator Lee from Utah put in the part of the government selling off huge swaths of public land to private owners, most likely with big money. It was taken out in the house version once, and then senator Lee from Utah put it back in the senate version once again, and that one passed I guess.
I smell kickbacks and dirty money for things like that. Currently, it "our" land owned by us taxpayers, yet when it's sold, it won't go back to us. Sad
It did not pass, it was removed from the senate version as well, thankfully.
One of the theories is that Lee wanted the government to sell the land, so the Mormon church could buy it. The Mormon church is already one of the largest landowners in the country, holding 1.7 million acres worth $16B.
https://www.agriculturedive.com/news/mormon-church-lds-buys-farmland/72…
Mormon Church, Wilkes Brothers etc. etc.
Mike Lee has a bunch of scum in his back pocket that want to buy that shit up.
But the Mormon Church and their loyalty to each other is the reason we even have to deal with him to begin with.
Noise kills riding areas over dust. The 4 stroke noise carries much further than a 2 stroke.
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