IMPORTANT NOTICE PLEASE READ!

[Evil Greg]

There will be a meeting on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 6:00PM, held at the Town Hall for the Town of Paris located at 16607 Burlington Rd, Union Grove, WI. This meeting will be in regards to a study of noise and light pollution alleged to eminate from Great Lakes Dragaway. If you can possibly make it to this meeting, we would GREATLY appreciate it! We need as many fans of GLD as possible. We are sorry for the short notice, as the town scheduled this meeting with very little advance notice. Tell EVERYONE you know who is either a racer or a fan of the sport! This is VERY important and we need your support!!
Randy Henning, Dom Blasco, Marcel Kuper , Greg Angeli

[4cfed]

thanks for the notice!! id make it if i lived closer.. hope things dont get out of line for gld!!!



( let me guess one or two people are whinning about the lights and noise) when the track has prob been there longer than there house

[NOT_SLOW]

Tell them yuppie ☺☺☺☺ers to move back to thier perfect little sub division.
i would show up but i work until 6

[NOT_SLOW]

This is a post made on Wi1320.com from a member (leadfoot) that was at the meeting...

Anyone else make it the meeting in Union Grove tonight? I left with more questions than answers. It seems - IMO - that a rather large developer has its eye on the Township of Paris. To which, the town board has retained an attorney and hired a firm to conduct a noise & light pollution study. The results of said study were outlined at the meeting tonight. The entire agenda was repeated that its findings were to "protect future developement within the township from noise & light pollution".

Nothing seemed very clear and the board kept it that way. For starters, they opened with the announcement that "well, we have more than 3 people who showed up", so they obviously were planning (hoping) no one would show in opposition. Then they took 90% of the allotted time to allow the person who conducted the study to go over how it was conducted, when it was conducted, and the findings. Basically they took 2 diff. time periods and various location and set up meters to read the decibles of noise produced by 4 diff. businesses in the area - packing plant, landfill, drag strip, and something else. The readings were taken in June and on Labor Day weekend. The highest decible readings from the track were about 95, from Labor Day, and on an average day at the track was about 60-65. The guy took a reading from the noise within the room at the beginning of the meeting, and it was 65 decibles.

At any rate, the entire point of the meeting, to me, wasn't about the results of the testing, nor was it whether or not ordinances are needed, but rather to submit two diff. reports to the board and their attorney to go over and consider. Those reports were wording & language to set up noise & light ordinances for the township and how to go about enforcing them. They only allowed about 7-8 questions and then abruptly ended that portion of the meeting. I'd guess there were about 100-125 people there - looked to me that all were supporters of GLD. I really wanted to ask some questions, but between the tight protocol they ran in the room and my having to take my infant son along - who kept smiling and cooing at the people around him - I wasn't able to. I had to step out of the room at times to keep him occupied. Thanks to the lack of notice by the board so people could make prior arrangements.

I found it interesting that not only did they say that only 4 residents had complained about the noise at the track, they also said that they initiated the contact with said residents while conducting their noise & light tests. That alone leads me to believe that someone other than the residents are behind the push for these ordinances to come to fruition (such as a developer).

The next step, so they said, is for the board to look over the reports and get a draft copy of the ordinances and enforcement penalties together. Someone asked how the public would be notified and view these drafts, but I was in the hallway at the time and couldn't hear too clearly. I believe they said they would be available on their website, but not sure about that. Like I said, they really weren't after input on whether or not the ordinances are necessary or even wanted, but rather what they will be. Such nonsense. And as I was getting ready to leave, I asked a few people there if the decision to pass an ordiance was already made, and they said no. And another guy said he was at the building/meeting ?? last night and nothing was said to him that there was even a meeting about this tonight. Many were complaining how hush hush this has all been kept.

I'd be interested to hear anyone else's intake on the meeting that was there tonight.

[NOT_SLOW]

The way i see it from reading this is that there will be something passed to limit the time cars can be run at GLD

[1badtgp]

They tried the same thing at Englishtown and Rockingham. I remember when they did it at the Rock, it was right after a subdivision went up and an HOA started. A bunch of old geizers decided the track was too noisey. They actually got it shut down for an entire weekend.

A bunch of us hooligans proceeded to go street racing right in front of the community. Track was open again the following weekend.