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OK....don't get your hopes up. The way thins works is very deceptive. MAYBE., MAYBE EVERY one of you in the world that cares for Moto-America MIGHT make a small dent on local politicians to consider that event, it doesn't really go very far.
I live in one of the two actual cities in Lyon County, Nevada, Yerington. The other is Fernley. Lyon county has 5 districts, with a Commissioner per district. They have two Board of County Commissioner's (BoCC) meetings a month, here in Yerington.They are on the first and third Thursdays of every month, at 9:00AM.
Some people cannot make those meetings, from work, too far to travel, whatever. So, the BoCC created a Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) for all 8 areas of the county. These boards convene one evening per month, all over the county, from the two towns, to all the unincorporated areas in the county. These CAB's are not the actual commissioners, but most commissioners also attend, to interact with the public in their areas. The CAB members run the meeting, and they do things like review Special Use Permits, Conditional Use Permits, Planning Commission, and other county business, record the public input, and return it to the BoCC.
CAB's are a later n the day info input for the BoCC.
My CAB is in Mason Valley, that also has Weed heights, Wabuska, Mason, the City of Yerington and all the rural areas within Mason Valley. I have been the Chairman of the MV CAB for 8 years now, board member for 10. That said, the BoCC here is pen minded, and listen, but there are other areas that they just do not listen to anyone but themselves and developers, those that have schemes to gain money only. I asked our county manager if he knew about what was going on at Laguna and their county, and his response was that those people only care about the cash input facet of the race track, and that they all feel it would be better used as a county rental facility not for motorsports, but civic events like fairs, festivals, and anything toa does two things, keeps the residents that hate the noise off their backs, and making gobs of money, and WSBK, and especially Moto-America, that ae not high dollar revenue places.
As I said, if everybody speaks up for the races, there might be one of them that hears, but, don't hold your breath for any more races at Laguna. None of the races Laguna has done have ever made significant monies, as the commissioners there are aware, not even Indy and Sports Car races.
I hope sanity hits them, and the races come back, but I am not betting on it. What residents need to do is show up to the various meetings, and respectfully give your testimony, opinions and cares to the county officials. Be polite, and if you feel the same as someone else that testified before you, don't waste the board's time, simply say you completely agree with the speaker that said XXXXXX previously, and sit back down. Long same rant and rave dissertations from a hundred people don't go far with the powers that run things.
We just heard two agenda items, the first was a 5k residential housing development for totally rural Stagecoach, with commercial/industrial as well, on 655 acres, in a totally rural area. It would have taken both water and sewer lines to facilitate the project, from 15 miles away, Dayton. The developer has been revising the plan for two years, cancels presentatioin, then redesigns more into the project, and it went on, and on. Finally, it came to the Stagecoach CAB, defeated, on to Plan Com, defeated, and on to the BoCc. 45 speakers aganist the project, and it was defeated by BoCC. Here is one project that should have been in a non-rural area, like Dayton, NOT Stagecoach.
The other agenda item was here, MV CAB, Plan Com and BoCC, and was a real, live Yerington project, literally a Tiger Rescue Facility and Rescue. Note: the word "Tiger" was just that, a real, live TIGER rescue located one mile out of the Yerington City Limits. Tigers, lions, other big cats are quite able to travel miles hunting things to eat, and the facility wo0uld have only been chain link fenced. The ONLY reason the people that were applying was, a greedy realtor conned them into thinking the property was low cost, and that approval would be "duck soup". I have no idea if the Yerngton area public likes duck soup, but they sure didn't like a tiger rescue coming to their town, and 74 of them responded NO. Plan Com and BoCc said a resounding NO.
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