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Just make sure you have some sort of matting in the areas where you keep your bikes, solvents, oils etc and you should be good.
As long as you haven’t disturbed the surrounding land or water sources (if any) you should be good.
I can’t tell from the pic when I zoom it it goes blurry, do you have a fence installed along the roadside of your land? That might be something you’d need to do? Once again I’m not sure what the rules and regulations over there are.
Anyways good luck all the best.
We had a local track shut down back in '08. The first issue was that the land/business owner didn't follow the legal way of doing things. Bad on his part. Second, was one guy complaining about noise and dust. We attended township meetings where 100 patrons showed up vs one complainer. The complainer was a rich investor from NYC who just build a flakeboard palace across the road. Nuff said, the township folded like a deck of cards and sided with the complainer for fear of legal action. The transplants that move here from Jersey and NYC for their little slice of heaven are the biggest pain in the rump! They bring their drugs and money and try to run the locals out. The real interesting part is that after he went through all of this to get what he wanted, he committed suicide when the stock market took a dump during the Great Recession and he couldn't sell his house. Why couldn't he have done that before and avoided all the mess??? Gotta luv it.
I'm late to the game in responding, but as many people earlier stated and just as you wisely did- the silt fence can't be overstated enough. I'm not sure that anyone answered your question yet about taking it down (after the grass established), but I would highly recommend that you keep it up as long as you have the track there.
It will over time deteriorate and likely collapse in sections, etc. Maintain it as this happens and replace sections or even the entire fence when the time comes. Besides not making the silt fence any sort of additional eye sore for any future aggravations, keeping it up and maintained in a clean professional looking matter can only work to your benefit.
This is true even if it is arguably serving any real sediment and erosion purposes.
If nothing else, it serves to present your efforts of being responsible and in wanting to be doing the right thing- which was already evident in you riding at reasonable hours, watching the dust, etc for your neighbors.
I'm not an engineer or expert on the requirements in your area but have been in the construction business (mass excavation, grading, etc) for over 40 years and the mere presence of silt fence / sediment & erosion control can go a long way when issues arise.
Growing up racing, my father had been very active in maintaining our local track and he'd often run the dozer to prep the track. He tried to convince the race committee that leased the track to invest in some solid sediment and erosion control, but they had convinced themselves it was not really needed.
When the neighbors that started to move in to new houses near the track needed a way to shut the track down, it was as easy as calling the environmental department.
That was the end of the track.
Anyway- enough of stressing all this... Good job keeping your cool and working things out!
Congrats and go riding and enjoy your victory!
TLDR: Attend local government meetings and make friends. It takes maybe a couple of hours a month and may pay back your time in spades.
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Glad things worked out for OP .
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