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THE TOWNSHIP BOARD VOTED TO DENY THE PERMIT THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE DRAG STRIP TO OPEN.

I was at the meeting tonight and I stood up and spoke out in favor of allowing the track to open. There were approz 50 people there and the majority was in favor of it opening. The board member who is also on the planning commission asked the board to have the issue sent back to the Planning Commission. He said the planning commssion did not have all the facts in front of them when they voted to deny the permit. Even the head of the planning commission asked to have the issue sent back to them. Stupervisor Maiville denied it saying that it had gone on long enough. 2 of the board members voted in favor to deny the permit while saying they were voting in protest. I assume they were voting in protest as they thought it should go back to the planning commission. Board member Tow who is also on the planning commission voted no against denying the permit. So the vote was 4 yes,1 no to deny the permit. 2 of the yes votes were made in protest. I believe as it was presented to the board,the members felt they had no choice. I also believe that it was very short sighted of the Stupervisor to make a statement saying it had gone on long enough. The right decision needs to be made no matter how long it takes to come to that decision. If you do anything else you are not doing what is in the best interest of your constituents.
It is a damn shame and I hope that the owner takes the comments made this evening and uses them in his favor. I still find it hard to believe that the track is not grandfathered in. I am also surprised that it was only myself,the head of the planning commission and another planning commission member were the only ones to speak out during the public speaking part of the meeting. I really thought it was going to be alot longer than that.

u were not the only one to speak out....i was not there but i know my mother an their neighbor have spoken every damn time ....in fact they maybe on tv tonight at 1100pm on channel 6.

You dont really understand I was there to.Everybody has spoke and BITCHED until blue in the face.This has been going on for 2 yrs passed both times but dosent count the only time it counts is when it dosent pass .That is the problem with this fu--ing world normal people get screwed and crooks always win.I feel so bad for Dan .I know he has alot of time and money in it.They leave him no choice but take action GOOD LUCK DAN AND RAY. .

where is the justice..it should be thrown out cuz of the threats to the board members

You are right in that alot of people have spoken out before this meeting in favor of allowing the track to open. I just thought that everyone would have spoken out again but it seems that those in the know knew which direction this meeting was going to go. Jim Tow certainly did. I believe that is why he spoke so strongly about getting it sent back to the planning commission because he knew that the Stupervisor was going to pull this crap and use the Planning commission's own words against him and them. Damn shame.
I don't know if Dan was there. I don't know him but I hope he will keep pushing this and if there is anything I can do to help,I hope they will let me know. There is no reason for them not to allow him to open this track and make a living doing it. I spoke with the president of the Jackson Area Board of Realtors today and if anyone would know as to whether or not that the track would negatively affect property values it would be him. He laughed when I asked him that question. He said the only thing hurting property values is the economy not the track. The track would help the local economy and thus property values. they have the truth so twisted.

nere is the link to the Jackson Citizen Patriot article where one of the women who voted under protest acknowledged that her vote was swayed by the threats

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index ... _drag.html

I'm so sorry to hear news like this,Is there still hope of getting it opened this year.And what is the next step, in this process.

Ok, it's time for all of us to step up. We need to know if possible what the next move is and how we can all get involved. There has to be a way around these closed minded people who only have their best interest at heart.

We need to get a movement going in the right direction, petitions maybe, support from Law Enforcement on the dangers of street racing and how the track would be a good thing to help prevent it etc.

they did the same thing about 5 or 6 years ago when a guy tried to open tricity dragway back up,then tried in bentley no good there so tried in standish no good there,lets all get this track open.i will help any way i can . i am retired so have a lots of time.i live 130 miles from there but my kid lives in bunker hill so i have a place to stay.maybe we could meet with the owners and get something going.

So since they denied the permit for use as an open dragstrip, whats the chance of saying up yours and turning the track into a 'Private Club strip" like it was before, racing was allowed for the local clubs with no permit, why not charge a "Club Membership" and say "Club Dues each club event raced" and start racing or at least start organizing some car shows and cruise nights to raise some money to lawyer up. I know there are alot of us in the Jackson area that would be more then happy to donate to the cause. The Counsil may be protected from lawsuits but our good friend on Kinneville rd is not nor are the others that were opposed, since he want's to threaten people to get his way stick a few lawsuits frivalous lawsuits on him and the others, make them have to lawyer up and defend their actions , a good suit would be loss of potential income from the 2011 race season, once it starts costing them a thousand here and there each time they have to hire a lawyer they will turn belly up and crawl back under their rocks

I think something needs to be done to help with the fees to get it opened also.That will tell you how many people really are for it and not just runnung their mouths!!!Car shows and fund raisers maybe t shirts or other things.All I know what a crooked bunch of people in that township!!!! It would be one thing to get voted down fair and square but to do it the wat they did totally wrong and I agree it needs to be pursued good luck Dan and Ray.