Neighbors and activists try to shut down Maryland man’s go kart track

[Mac-7]

Fair point.
Also they have electric carts now. I would imagine they are much more quiet than the lawn mower carts we used to have.

What are the odds that the neighbors use gas engines to cut their grass?

And hate themselves afterward but do it again every week?

 

[evenflow1969]

The Forest Hills Tennis Center, now the Forest Hills Stadium in Queens NY almost had the same issue.

The compromise was simple. Concerts end at 10PM sharp.

It's been working for decades now like that.

The Polaris situation was flat bull crap. Decades of memories there for many many people. No freaking compromise was made. The place was put out of business. Columbus and Delaware metropolitan area is where the rich throw their money around. Almost all new subdivisions are PUDs. Very restrictive home owners associations. F ing Karen's gone wild drunk with power looking to make life miserable. Yes, mainly stay at home women walking around looking for any violations to report you for. F ing nightmares. So I move the hell out the area get a lake front home on lake Erie. Now guess who followed me. The same Richie Riches I left. They are buying the ever loving shit out my area. I now live on what use to be captains row. Every one here worked the water. All of use to be in bed by 9 because we had to be at the docks by 5 am. Not anymore. Filled with second homes people making noise till 3 o'clock in the morning. I get up at 4. I don't want to move. I can walk to my dock. Gunna have to though if I want sleep. I will make a ton of money when I sell but I wanna live like I have been living for the past ten years.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Even the gas ones aren't that loud, and i'm sure there are ways to reduce the noise.

Also put up bushes / trees if eyesore. Pretty sure this is just a NIMBY thing.

 

[martybegan]

Also put up bushes / trees if eyesore. Pretty sure this is just a NIMBY thing.

Maybe also NIMBY's annoying older sibling, BANANA, Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.

As an Engineer I run into this all the time, People want their faucets to flow, toilets to flush, lights to turn on and garbage collected, but they don't want the water towers, waste treatment plants, power plants and dumps/transfer facilities required to make it all work.

 

[toobfreak]

A Maryland father has enraged his neighbors by building a half-mile go-kart track for his motorsports-loving son on their 11-acre property.

It's MARYLAND, so what can you expect? Maryland is almost as fascist as New York State. Good luck being a gun owner there. The case holds no water, they plaintiffs admit the course is no bother to them and lack standing on authority to show how any of this rubber presents any different or worse danger than the car tires on every road, further, rubber tires do not emit microplastics, worse, microplastics are already everywhere, they are even in your brain. Finally, they have not done an environmental impact study showing that the track is shedding any microplastics much less that any has leeched into any surrounding wetlands attributable to this track.

 

[toobfreak]

it really is a loud eyesore in a rich residential neighborhood.

LOUD is irrelevant. There are few if any restrictions on noise during the day from usually 8AM to 10PM. Otherwise, how could you mow your lawn or do carpentry on your house?

EYESORE is irrelevant, the track seen at ground-level amounts to a glorified driveway, and it is 1000 feet off the road (1/5th mile) behind trees on private property.

 

[Concerned American]

We get morons that move to the exurbs and complain about the smell of livestock.

Hint...stay in the city and enjoy the fumes of pollution and the noise of traffic and crime.

They have even complained about shooting ranges that have been there for decades, but apparently didn't have the diligence to look at what surrounds the property.

Nut growers in the central valley of CA took to putting up signs on their properties warning of dust from working orchards when developers put subdivisions next to their properties. Bay area transplants often file suit to prevent the nut harvests because of dust. LOL, move to an ag area and complain about dust and odor. SMH

 

[Foxfyre]

I imagine they are using that as an excuse to stop it, and it really is a loud eyesore in a rich residential neighborhood.

They are lucky. In Texas, by state law if you own 10 acres you can put up a range and shoot all day.

I'm pretty sure it isn't visible from any of the neighbor's properties so the 'eyesore' angle doesn't work. And nobody has complained of the noise. The article says they worry that the tires on the go cart are polluting the environment and such. Utterly ridiculous.

I'm just thinking how much I would have loved a go cart and that track as a kid. Or even now.

 

[ozro]

We had someone move out here and complain about cattle, but it's open range. The idiot had not done his due diligence, and the paltry five acres he bought online had a county road running through it, which he put a single strand of barbed wire across. One of my neighbors came to his 'frnce' and this idiot brandished a gun at him. My neighbor shot him dead right there.

 

[Zincwarrior]

LOUD is irrelevant. There are few if any restrictions on noise during the day from usually 8AM to 10PM. Otherwise, how could you mow your lawn or do carpentry on your house?

EYESORE is irrelevant, the track seen at ground-level amounts to a glorified driveway, and it is 1000 feet off the road (1/5th mile) behind trees on private property.

Evidently its not irrelevant as they are stopping the project yes?

I'm pretty sure it isn't visible from any of the neighbor's properties so the 'eyesore' angle doesn't work. And nobody has complained of the noise. The article says they worry that the tires on the go cart are polluting the environment and such. Utterly ridiculous.

I think thats just a cover to stop it.

 

[Foxfyre]

Evidently its not irrelevant as they are stopping the project yes?

I think thats just a cover to stop it.

Perhaps. The OP article didn't mention 'eyesore' as one of the reasons the neighbors object to it but they cite several environmental concerns what are utterly ridiculous. I hope the guy is able to work it out because what great fun for his kid. Since it is electric carts that will be used, noise shouldn't be any issue at all. Like others said, if I lived in that neighborhood I would be buying a go cart.

 

[rampart]

I imagine they are using that as an excuse to stop it, and it really is a loud eyesore in a rich residential neighborhood.

They are lucky. In Texas, by state law if you own 10 acres you can put up a range and shoot all day.

well within local zoning authority for out "freedom!" fans.

 

[Concerned American]

I'm pretty sure it isn't visible from any of the neighbor's properties so the 'eyesore' angle doesn't work. And nobody has complained of the noise. The article says they worry that the tires on the go cart are polluting the environment and such. Utterly ridiculous.

I'm just thinking how much I would have loved a go cart and that track as a kid. Or even now.

If he isn't running it as a business, I think I'd tell them to go pound sand. He is using his own property for his own personal enjoyment. I could see possibly a noise nuisance, but if he uses it outside of quiet hours, there is nothing there either.

 

[hadit]

Even the gas ones aren't that loud, and i'm sure there are ways to reduce the noise.

On a personal note, I enjoy hearing kids having a good time. Our neighbors came over to apologize for their kids running around in their yard with their friends, screaming and having a good time like kids do. We told them to not apologize for kids having fun. I would think go-karts hundreds of yard away wouldn't be a problem.

 

[Rawley]

If I was his neighbor I'd be buying myself a go kart.

Fuk yeah.

 

[Foxfyre]

If he isn't running it as a business, I think I'd tell them to go pound sand. He is using his own property for his own personal enjoyment. I could see possibly a noise nuisance, but if he uses it outside of quiet hours, there is nothing there either.

Apparently the government has stepped in though so I may take more than just telling them to go 'pound sand.' The go carts are electric so noise should not be any kind of significant issue.

 

[ReinyDays]

On a personal note, I enjoy hearing kids having a good time. Our neighbors came over to apologize for their kids running around in their yard with their friends, screaming and having a good time like kids do. We told them to not apologize for kids having fun. I would think go-karts hundreds of yard away wouldn't be a problem.

Years ago, my neighbors sets up a skateboard ramp for their kids ... noisy as pluck but the kids were sure enjoying it ... and I enjoyed watching the kids enjoy themselves ...

It's a choice ...

Then they discovered girls and it ended ...

 

[martybegan]

On a personal note, I enjoy hearing kids having a good time. Our neighbors came over to apologize for their kids running around in their yard with their friends, screaming and having a good time like kids do. We told them to not apologize for kids having fun. I would think go-karts hundreds of yard away wouldn't be a problem.

We had two people on our block who hated us playing stickball in the street. One would put his sprinkler on so we wouldn't go on his lawn, the other we called "The Mad Hungarian" (he was actually greek) who was a drunk and who would come after us with gardening tools.