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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
the houses near the track shouldn't really be a problem since THEY ARE IN A DIFFERENT FRIGGIN TOWNSHIP!!!! it is only the tracks willingness to bend over and take it that makes the cries of those idiots worth anything.
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Tim, come on, how can you sit there and believe that, just because it's a different township, they can't make any mischief for the track? I think you are a much more sensible person than that. It's only been a couple of years since one (or was it two?) former Manalapan supervisor(s?) became an Assemblyman for Monmouth County (yes, I know, etown is in Middlesex) and proposed modifying your state's Noise Control Act to remove the exemption for Motorsports. This would not have only threatened etown, but Atco and Island as well. It was only after finding zero support in the Assembly (more through etown's lobbying efforts...I don't think that the petition campaign had much weight since the majority of signatures were not from NJ), the rebuff of the NJ DEP on extra-local legislation of noise control ordinances and the complete and total impeachment of the testimony of some Rutgers prof as a "noise control expert" (by etown's attorney) was the campaign modified to finding some "state-funded" noise abatement solutions. Recall that etown had been in court since 1981 appealing decibel limits set by the court, and had been forced to comply with orders issued from the bench in both '85 and, recently, '02.
How this represents a willingness to
'bend over and take it' is beyond me.