shane.young@comcast.net
I raced last night and was looking around for "neighbors" and it made me wonder. Is it the ducks and geese complaining... or maybe the dog park. I don't think it would be MAX or the airport. Maybe it was the other trains or maybe it was Shari's or the gas stations. But if I had to bet it would be the golf course.
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From: "Dan Houghton"
Settle down, everyone. PIR is not going to move or close. This complaint from neighborhood associations comes up whenever they get bored with more important issues.
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From: Evan MacKenzie
To: obra@list.obra.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:23 AM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] PIR, etc
OK, so I sent this one off:
I hear there is talk about moving PIR. Would this be a closure and an actual move, or just a closure?
What you may not realize is the fact that not only is PIR home to a whole slew of auto racing events, but it is also home to a large number of bicycle events as well, with the capacity for even more. All summer long there are road races on the track Monday and Tuesday nights. There are also mountain bike short track races on the infield, and cyclocross races in the fall. PIR is a wonderful resource for the entire Oregon cycling community that would be sorely missed.
I can?t believe that moving PIR to somewhere in the Rivergate area would significantly lower noise. I also believe that if the track were relocated, it would give people an excuse to try to place additional restrictions on the operations there. Lets all face it, PIR has been there a while and the people who live in the area know that. When I lived in the Alameda area I occasionally heard noise from the track. Hey, that?s what happens when you have auto racing.
By the way, bikes don?t make much noise, don?t consume massive amounts of fuel or pollute the air. But that doesn?t mean cyclists don?t get a whole lot of use out of the track and grounds.
(not part of the letter)
For the record, I went down to Sea Otter a couple weeks ago. I was talking to a local about Laguna Seca one day. He said that when LS was built, it was way out in the sticks. Then as the trophy house sprawl crept out into the hills, and they started filling up with multi-million dollar homes, the owners hired fancy lawyers and sued, and successfully got a noise cap placed on the raceway. Now racers have to modify their cars in order to use LS, which as you can imagine they really don?t like. That means there is this great facility that has now become underutilized because of restriction placed on it after the fact. Of course, all the richies knew full well that Laguna Seca was there.
If that happened in Oregon, it would be an interesting test of Measure 37. But we don?t need that, because someone else right here in Washington County is testing that very idea. And if you knew anything about it, I?m sure you?d support their claim. I can?t say much beyond that, but suffice to say the cycling community also has an interest in this case. More to come later.
-Evan
Evan MacKenzie
Urban Planner I
City of Hillsboro
150 E. Main Street, 4th floor
Hillsboro, OR 97123
503-681-6154
evanm@ci.hillsboro.or.us
http://www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/Planning_Department/
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