Stand for the people who live near Pacific Raceways and stop your ill founded attempt to push racetrack expansion. Thousands of homes have grown up next to the raceway, next to the accepted level of noise and pollution. This proposed expansion will exponentially increase the noise and the threat to wildlife and the Soos Creek. Please do the right thing, you have been given hundreds of signatures of local residents who want you to stop your support of this bad idea
I have noticed since they cut the trees down around the Track a few years it ago. Has gotten quit a bit noisier. I have lived here all my life and have seen the quality of life go down quit a bit.. With road congensation and safety not being a concern of goverment or private developer just greed.
I participate in events at Pacific Raceway and support efforts to improve the facilities and increase its marketability for other regional and national events. Any expansion does need to be in harmony with the surrounding and should include the input of the local homeowners. With open discussion and clear understanding of the facts there should be an approach that can accommodate all parties.
I live very close to Pacific raceways. I do not support the expansion plans but I do support the enforcement of the CUP. We need the WHOLE council to stand up and support the 1000s of home owners that live in the surrounding area. The council is trying to pass the clean water act but yet lets Pacific Raceways do as they please around Soos creek watershed. They need to be stopped. Please help us! Thomas Eggers
I support Pacific Raceways. I would hope they continue to work with neighbors. It will cost them a lot of money to mitigate the noise. The track was operating here before many of us were born, it was our choice to live in this area. Because the track was here the property values were low, because they were low we could afford it, your choice. At least we don't have a pig farm, airport, or 300 homes over there.
The raceway has been there since the 1960's and was there when people bought their houses. Reading through the proposal it seems as if the current track management is trying to do a good job. Admittedly the prior management was a bit ragged - they are the ones who cut down the trees I understand.
It's hard for me to believe all these people near the track have lived there all there lives. For those who purchased their homes near the track in the last 48 years need not cry!
They had to have known a race track was near by?
Sounds just like people who purchase a house at the end of a airport runway and now want the airport to move.
We don't need people like this in our country! The other problem with these people the may even vote! Scary thought!
I have lived very close to pacific raceways for the better part of almost 20 years. Pacific raceways has not been the good neighbor it likes to project in its articles. They've run races until midnight and then theirs another 2 hours of hearing trailers clanging and banging. At last years nationals they brought in a portable generator powered light which they placed about 50 feet from my house and ran all night. When I asked if it could be turned off at midnight the security said he was told that it was to stay running all night. As for the CUP the owner said it just wasn't in his best interest to obey it. The expansion of pacific raceways at best could be called a BAD IDEA. The expansion project should be stopped immediately.
I have seen the new proposal and am very concerned that my voice as a neighbor to the track has no weight in the matter. Unfortunately I can not afford financially to take off from work for the meetings between 0730-1630 M-F. I really want to be at them but I must be at my job, therefore I am relying on the counsel members to please act on my behalf and take in to consideration my personal objections.
As for privacy, noise, nature/beauty of landscape I hope that it will be taken into consideration to leave the tree line between us and the new buildings they are wanting to put in across the road from our home. I really don't want to here machine shops for the autos repair and civilian traffic noise etc., in addition to the noise already being endured from the racing.
As for June 3 & 4, 2011 Traffic started flowing into the Raceways at 0500 and Racing took place up to 2345 and then departing Traffic until 0200. The noise from the campers in the field went until about 0330 in the morning. Maybe they could propose security and a curfew for the Campers to have quiet time mandatory like other camp sites or be expelled.
At one of the town meetings in Auburn I attended one of the Fiorito brothers stated to several of us at the meeting that they are going to continue to break the rules of the Cup that they are in this for the money. My concern is that if you get rid of the cup and put the rules into the new ordinance that they will still break the rules. Has the Police Department or King County Penalized them for any or all of the times that they have broken the Cup? Who is in charge of enforcing this matter?
Furthermore, in 2010 when NHRA ran, Pacific Raceways put out a generator next to the Vendor gate to run a spot light that they operated all night long, even after races were over. Both the noise from the generator and the spot light making it look like the sun was not in the sky but right outside the window even with black out curtains we didn't need to turn on any lights in the house! My point is the spot light is extremely bright, brighter than a regular street light and should be prohibited along with a loud generator like ones construction sites use.
This puts a whole new meaning to SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE!
What more can I honestly say but "I OBJECT"........
You know across the street when nationals comes their are cars backed in pushing over trees and in the brush it looks as though it is a scene from children from the corn when the people come walking through. The county should be as appalled as I am at the travesty as I am.
Pete,
ReplyDeleteStand for the people who live near Pacific Raceways and stop your ill founded attempt to push racetrack expansion. Thousands of homes have grown up next to the raceway, next to the accepted level of noise and pollution. This proposed expansion will exponentially increase the noise and the threat to wildlife and the Soos Creek. Please do the right thing, you have been given hundreds of signatures of local residents who want you to stop your support of this bad idea
I have noticed since they cut the trees down around the Track a few years it ago. Has gotten quit a bit noisier. I have lived here all my life and have seen the quality of life go down quit a bit.. With road congensation and safety not being a concern of goverment or private developer just greed.
ReplyDeleteI participate in events at Pacific Raceway and support efforts to improve the facilities and increase its marketability for other regional and national events. Any expansion does need to be in harmony with the surrounding and should include the input of the local homeowners. With open discussion and clear understanding of the facts there should be an approach that can accommodate all parties.
ReplyDeleteHows about racing all electric cars? Seriously. And plant trees, instead of cutting them down. Not sure what to do about spectator traffic though.
ReplyDeleteI live very close to Pacific raceways. I do not support the expansion plans but I do support the enforcement of the CUP. We need the WHOLE council to stand up and support the 1000s of home owners that live in the surrounding area. The council is trying to pass the clean water act but yet lets Pacific Raceways do as they please around Soos creek watershed. They need to be stopped. Please help us! Thomas Eggers
ReplyDeleteI support Pacific Raceways. I would hope they continue to work with neighbors. It will cost them a lot of money to mitigate the noise. The track was operating here before many of us were born, it was our choice to live in this area. Because the track was here the property values were low, because they were low we could afford it, your choice. At least we don't have a pig farm, airport, or 300 homes over there.
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Zman
The raceway has been there since the 1960's and was there when people bought their houses. Reading through the proposal it seems as if the current track management is trying to do a good job. Admittedly the prior management was a bit ragged - they are the ones who cut down the trees I understand.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard for me to believe all these people near the track have lived there all there lives.
ReplyDeleteFor those who purchased their homes near the track in the last 48 years need not cry!
They had to have known a race track was near by?
Sounds just like people who purchase a house at the end of a airport runway and now want the airport to move.
We don't need people like this in our country!
The other problem with these people the may even vote! Scary thought!
I have lived very close to pacific raceways for the better part of almost 20 years. Pacific raceways has not been the good neighbor it likes to project in its articles. They've run races until midnight and then theirs another 2 hours of hearing trailers clanging and banging. At last years nationals they brought in a portable generator powered light which they placed about 50 feet from my house and ran all night. When I asked if it could be turned off at midnight the security said he was told that it was to stay running all night. As for the CUP the owner said it just wasn't in his best interest to obey it. The expansion of pacific raceways at best could be called a BAD IDEA. The expansion project should be stopped immediately.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the new proposal and am very concerned that my voice as a neighbor to the track has no weight in the matter. Unfortunately I can not afford financially to take off from work for the meetings between 0730-1630 M-F. I really want to be at them but I must be at my job, therefore I am relying on the counsel members to please act on my behalf and take in to consideration my personal objections.
ReplyDeleteAs for privacy, noise, nature/beauty of landscape I hope that it will be taken into consideration to leave the tree line between us and the new buildings they are wanting to put in across the road from our home. I really don't want to here machine shops for the autos repair and civilian traffic noise etc., in addition to the noise already being endured from the racing.
As for June 3 & 4, 2011 Traffic started flowing into the Raceways at 0500 and Racing took place up to 2345 and then departing Traffic until 0200. The noise from the campers in the field went until about 0330 in the morning. Maybe they could propose security and a curfew for the Campers to have quiet time mandatory like other camp sites or be expelled.
At one of the town meetings in Auburn I attended one of the Fiorito brothers stated to several of us at the meeting that they are going to continue to break the rules of the Cup that they are in this for the money. My concern is that if you get rid of the cup and put the rules into the new ordinance that they will still break the rules. Has the Police Department or King County Penalized them for any or all of the times that they have broken the Cup? Who is in charge of enforcing this matter?
Furthermore, in 2010 when NHRA ran, Pacific Raceways put out a generator next to the Vendor gate to run a spot light that they operated all night long, even after races were over. Both the noise from the generator and the spot light making it look like the sun was not in the sky but right outside the window even with black out curtains we didn't need to turn on any lights in the house! My point is the spot light is extremely bright, brighter than a regular street light and should be prohibited along with a loud generator like ones construction sites use.
This puts a whole new meaning to SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE!
What more can I honestly say but "I OBJECT"........
You know across the street when nationals comes their are cars backed in pushing over trees and in the brush it looks as though it is a scene from children from the corn when the people come walking through. The county should be as appalled as I am at the travesty as I am.
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