fontana drag strip will re-open!

[nighttowl]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Irwind...utoClubDragway


SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Calif. (July 31, 2012) – “The Auto Club Speedway has reached a settlement with a local group of concerned citizens in the San Bernardino County area known as CCoMPRESS, represented by Chatten-Brown & Carstens related to the operation of the Auto Club Dragway. As a result, the Auto Club Speedway may resume operations at the Auto Club Dragway if it first complies with a series of requirements intended to mitigate the environmental impacts to the surrounding community, including construction of a soundwall.”

[Synerbee]

will it be 1/4 mile or 1/8 mile

[nighttowl]

Originally Posted by Synerbee

will it be 1/4 mile or 1/8 mile

this is 1/4 mile. it was open for many many years, but developers built residences in an area zoned commercial. then the residents complained that they purchased a home near an operating racetrack and had the courts it shut down this year. what a bunch of ass-hats.

[2010SSRSM6]

Did the article give a date the sound wall would be complete?

[90503]

I know this is an old thread, but just read a news-story that the drag-strip will re-open for 2014 season...

Sound wall to be built, settlement/deal reached....Sounds like good news.....FINALLY...

[Cuda7050]

Oh lets not forget the raceway will also pay the plaintiff's attorney fees. Environmental attorney's are the modern version of ambulance chasers.

[Inferno LSX]

Not holding my breath. Looks like Irwindale is gonna get closed down again.

[90503]

Article was in today's Sport's page....Even said work on the new sound wall may start tomorrow...half a mile in length, cost about a million bucks....Sounds like it's a done deal, all settled....Drags will be on the 2014 Season schedule...

[SPCBA]

It will be back in court with some new group before they finish wall

[90503]

Auto Club Speedway on track to reopen drag strip for 2014

By Louis Brewster, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 10/19/13, 5:24 PM PDT |



FONTANA >> It’s quite ironic that an issue that centered around too much noise at Auto Club Dragway has quietly been settled.
Perhaps as early as Monday, work will start on a sound wall located on the northern boundary of the Auto Club Speedway that will resume in a drag race season at the track in 2014. The quarter-mile strip had been at the center of dispute for four years.
In July, 2012, the track announced it had reached a settlement with a “local group concerned citizens in the San Bernardino County area known as CcoMPRESS (Concerned Community Members and Parents of Redwood Elementary School Students)” to resume racing if a certain number of conditions were met.


The group, led by landowner Salvador Lopez, had sought to close the dragstrip.
The major part of the settlement was the sound wall, estimated to be about a half-mile in length located between the drag strip and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks. There has been no official word on the cost but early estimated were around $1 million.
“It’s important to the industry and Southern California,” said ACS president Gillian Zucker in announcing the development. She said the “intense dedication” by sponsors Auto Club of Southern California, NHRA, SEMA and K&N Filters were the foundation of the decision to return to drag racing.


“We are truly recognizing that with our oval, road course and other activities, we’ve got everything going,” said Zucker. “We didn’t feel we could truly be a motorsports complex if we didn’t have straight-line racing.
“We plan to return to NHRA racing in 2014.”
Zucker was pivotal in moving the drag strip from the original location south of the main grandstands to its present location in 2010 upon the expansion of the FunZone.
The original drag strip started with NHRA Street Legal programs but soon evolved with the addition of NHRA Lucas Oil Sportsmen events, such as the Pacific SportNationals, and PCRA events.


Zucker said the speedway had been working with San Bernardino County officials, specifically Supervisor Janice Rutherford to complete the project.

[Inferno LSX]

Trust me Tom, you know I want to see it re-open the drag strip. I've spent all this money to race the car. This is on par with LA getting a football team. So close and it still never happens.


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[KaBoom1701]

Here's to hoping it will open!

[sangerbanger58]

Nice, btw who buys a house near a race track thinking it is going to b quite? Idiots

[Bluffen]

The guy who filed the complaint bought the house on purpose so he could sue. He won some money from the race track prior when he lived on the East side of it saying it was causing his children harm. So when the kids became adults he moved to the west side and filed another complaint.