Prairie City OHV in trouble?

If conservationists are on the same side as the dirt bike contingent…I don’t think it stands a chance. 

The fact California made it where can't hardly register any new bikes anymore will probably eventually be the downfall of places like prairie city.  Users will drop as the old bikes go away, the funds will dry up, not because people aren't buying bikes, but because you can't even register them. Then they will say it isn't a need anymore and costing more money than it brings in.  Poof, sold for housing.   

I don't really see why a solar pant next door would result in it closing down.  If anything , it might stop housing from getting closer on one side at least.  

It's a debacle, no doubt and a shame if PC OHV disappears. Been going there a very long time.

On a positive note about registering bikes in CA, I just got both my 2022 and 2023 moto bikes registered, and was given a sticker, one was even from out of state. My buddy just got both of his 2023 and 2024 moto bikes registered as well.

Yeah, they passed that awhile back and lots of people didn’t hear. But ALL bikes thru 2025 and beyond are eligible for a GREEN sticker now. 
That hurdle has been eliminated for registering dirt bikes. 

solar is terrible for the environment just like the electric cars. you know what isnt bad for environment, cheap and safe... nuclear

You need to register a dirt bike in CA? 

Chernobyl? That wasn’t too good for the environment. 

Only to ride on public land.  It's pretty cheap and the money is used for ohv places like prairie city.  Which cost a whole $5 per car load of riders to enter with maintained facilities.  

They initially got rid of the ohv sticker program for any race bikes after 21.  Which means the funds will eventually become significantly less and the number of users will be forced to go down.  But I had heard they extended it to model year 2025.  But it's hit and miss.  

California actually has lots of free ohv trail systems throughout the state in part funded by moto registration also.  Only the state parks cost limited money to ride.  

Gotcha. Thanks. 

I'm going to try to register a 2024 next week.

Unless some new information was released recently, I don't think this is accurate.  

Beginning 2025, they changed a couple things:

1) all bikes model year 2021 and older will get green stickers.

2) 2022+ bikes will either get a red sticker or a green sticker depending on their emissions.  (The fact that they are still apparently issuing red stickers seems like they are leaving a door open to eventually increase restriction on the red sticker vehicles.)
3) Red stickers and green stickers are equally valid and both have no seasonal restrictions

https://ohv.parks.ca.gov/pages/1234/files/Information%20Bulletin%2024-3…

from your link- 

“DMV continues to issue Red Sticker registrations for model year 2022 and newer”

Until further notice, Law Enforcement shall treat all off-highway motor vehicles with current Red-Sticker registration as valid regardless of model year, so long as the registration matches the vehicle identification number (VIN).

I think new bikes can still get a green sticker, if eligible.  

For instance, this dealer has a list of bikes that get green stickers: https://www.pcpmotorsports.com/Showroom/Green-Sticker-Legal-Dirt-Bikes-…

The family that donated the land to the state many years ago put in the agreement that the land could only ever be used for OHV use, EVER. Now, we know how this state works, and the corruption, so no doubt they could find away around it. It would be a massive economic impact to the city of Folsom as well. With that being said, Zeb, the owner (Lease) of the actual Motocross track has not heard this once at any meetings or anything. Let’s just hope it’s the “fake news” media trying to get a rise out of people. 

I don't see a problem if they want to build a solar farm next to an OHV park. Something will go there eventually. 

Yeah.

A solar farm seems like a much smaller existential threat than the enormous luxury housing developments currently being built directly across the street from the entrance to the Hangtown track as a result of the City of Folsom expansion after annexing the South of 50 region. There are already multiple solar farms surrounding the OHV facility that have been there for decades.

Yikes those developments look like trouble.

That was 100 years ago and it would never happen in an American reactor.  Nuclear is by far the cleanest energy, but it has a bad name because people won’t educate themselves about it. 

FWIW, I read through the article and associated public comments, and two points:

1) The article seems to infer that CAL OHV parks are employing a "soft strategy" of using light industrial buffer zones to shield the OHV land from encroachment, but industry groups oppose that. 

I get it, philosophically. OHVers should benefit exactly the same from land use laws as groups that oppose them, and there is a battery of laws built to do so.

2) Speaking of OHVers -- Jeep groups and others described are against the solar farm, as it "impacts to the viewshed of Prairie City SVRA." In non legalspeak, it is bad for the environment and OHVers because they will be able to see it. I understand CEQA is a hardline legal process, and folks will fight using the statute as written -- But man, I'd sure hate to defend land use for OHV on those same grounds after actively pursuing it. 

I actually favor Park system strategy (even if it hasn't been explicitly stated as a strategy). It makes sense, even if it kicks the can down the road. It is not perfect, but it is pragmatic.

Personally, I think this is definitely one where the more strategic position of the State Parks is sensible. These light industrial neighbors have been stable semi-allies / buffer zones, and it sure beats dealing with large residential NIMBY groups who can prevail via sheer local public force and resource, regardless of legality of their position. 

Is the solar farm the light industrial use or is there plans for an additional industrial park?

The solar farm is the industrial buffer zone:

"Opponents have also raised broader policy concerns. With similar energy projects being proposed adjacent to other State Parks such as Ocotillo Wells and Heber Dunes SVRAs, some questioned whether the Department of Parks and Recreation is shifting away from its historic strategy of preserving open-space buffers around state parks toward accepting industrial-scale energy facilities as a new form of buffer."