new autox location in Burlington, NO GO for 2012

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:33 pm

::fingers crossed:: Thanks for the update. :thumbsup:

Burlington is soooo close too.

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

RodneyWright wrote:

So some potential bad news on the Burlington site. While the local police have absolutely no issues w/ us running an event on the parking lot, it seems that Richard has come across some city ordinances that prohibit racing and go-carts w/ in city limits. Richard has contacted a local lawyer to see if they can be granted an exception, but I don’t think this bodes will for this as a long term site. I’ll let you know what I find out as I’m told.

Booooo! Make sure you remind Richard that autocrossing is not technically racing so maybe he can use that angle.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:41 pm

Les Davis wrote:

RodneyWright wrote:

So some potential bad news on the Burlington site. While the local police have absolutely no issues w/ us running an event on the parking lot, it seems that Richard has come across some city ordinances that prohibit racing and go-carts w/ in city limits. Richard has contacted a local lawyer to see if they can be granted an exception, but I don’t think this bodes will for this as a long term site. I’ll let you know what I find out as I’m told.

Booooo! Make sure you remind Richard that autocrossing is not technically racing so maybe he can use that angle.

Funny, that's what the lawyer said to say!

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:04 pm

So, a bit of good news for the Burlington site. Seems that as part of the investigation to get permission to hold the autox, Richard’s lawyer has stumbled across some zoning maps and it looks like half of the site is autox legal and the other half isn’t. The carving of the zone map doesn’t match the train track orientation, so Richard is now pursuing to have the non-legal side of the site rezoned the same as the legal side.

There is hope!

JohnByers · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:22 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

So, a bit of good news for the Burlington site. Seems that as part of the investigation to get permission to hold the autox, Richard’s lawyer has stumbled across some zoning maps and it looks like half of the site is autox legal and the other half isn’t. The carving of the zone map doesn’t match the train track orientation, so Richard is now pursuing to have the non-legal side of the site rezoned the same as the legal side.

There is hope!

awesome news! :thumbsup:

Cash Davidson · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:22 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

So, a bit of good news for the Burlington site. Seems that as part of the investigation to get permission to hold the autox, Richard’s lawyer has stumbled across some zoning maps and it looks like half of the site is autox legal and the other half isn’t. The carving of the zone map doesn’t match the train track orientation, so Richard is now pursuing to have the non-legal side of the site rezoned the same as the legal side.

There is hope!

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:57 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

So, a bit of good news for the Burlington site. Seems that as part of the investigation to get permission to hold the autox, Richard’s lawyer has stumbled across some zoning maps and it looks like half of the site is autox legal and the other half isn’t. The carving of the zone map doesn’t match the train track orientation, so the lawyer, having figured out a way to bill more hours on this case and make his boat payment, is now pursuing to have the non-legal side of the site rezoned the same as the legal side.

There is hope!

fixed. Hope it ends up being worthwhile! A nice local site would be a great addition.

edit: mostly kidding here. well, sorta kidding.

Maybe.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:15 pm

Since a zoning change typically requires approval by the City Council let's hope Richard's community status/pull helps our case.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:31 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

Since a zoning change typically requires approval by the City Council let's hope Richard's community status/pull helps our case.

time will tell...

RobLupella · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:27 am

Its still too far away from Remchak. Can the site finders look around Angier?

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:35 pm

Well, it's official. No Autox in Burlington for May 5th. Richard stated that the town council canceled the rezoning meeting for March and delayed until the last week of April. We can't afford the risk of waiting until that time to make a decision for the May event. That said, looks like we're in for Sanford for our May 5th event.

Richard stated he was still going to try to complete the rezoning. I said that we're still interested in running at the site, so there's still hope for next year. I'll post back as I hear, but right now the joint Buick/THSCC autox will simply not be this year. To be honest, I was really looking forward to seeing the GN's and GNX's take to the course. That would have been fun.

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:59 pm

RodneyWright wrote:

That said, looks like we're in for Sanford for our May 5th event.

That being said, will the event remain a Staurday event, on May 5th, or move to Sunday, May 6th?

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:17 pm

Thanks for all the time you put into this Rodney (& Les) to try to get this site. Oh well..

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:36 pm

Gwen Baake wrote:

RodneyWright wrote:

That said, looks like we're in for Sanford for our May 5th event.

That being said, will the event remain a Staurday event, on May 5th, or move to Sunday, May 6th?

Sorry, this should be a standard Sunday event, so May 6th.

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:37 pm

Can't the Buick club still come join us at Sanford?

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