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Posted by Tim - LACR on 6/22/2007, 2:24 pm Although the “Closing of LACR”, wasn't on the Council Agenda there were over a hundred people there to express their opposition to the closing of Los Angeles County Raceway. We were well represented by a wide cross section of the community. There were people in there teens and folks in their seventies, there were law enforcement (Sheriff and LAPD), school teachers, business people, kids, mom's and dad's, racers and race fans. They all had different stories to tell regarding LACR through the years, but the one common theme was they don't want LACR to close and they don't want to put more illegal racing back on our city streets and the entire City Council agreed! According to Mayor Jim Ledford, the city has been and will keep pursuing the matter, but it's up to “Granite Construction” to agree to a solution that would keep the track open in its present location until a new track can be built! It's the opinion of most of the supporters that were there last night that the “Good of the Community” is more important than the “Corporate Bottom Line”! When City Manager Steve Williams, was asked by Mayor Ledford to put a price on what the property that the track is on, was worth, he replied that it was worth far more than the regular value of vacant land in the Antelope Valley because of the minerals that were under the property, when asked to give a pall park dollar amount, Mr. Williams said about “Twenty Million” and these were figures derived from talks with “Granite Construction” and as Councilman Mile Dispenza added the City Council would have to justify this type of expenditure, because these are tax payer dollars that we are talking about, so what it really boils down to, is “Granite Construction” the “Multi Billion Dollar” company willing to support the community that has already added “Millions Upon Millions” to their coffers or not! In the opening statement by Jeffery Hillinger, he mentioned the City using the power of “Eminent Domain”, if you have picked a newspaper or watched the news of late you know that this has been used by cities and small towns across the country to accomplish all sorts of things by taking private property, to build “Shopping Centers” to “Housing Projects”, the spirit behind “Eminent Domain” is to sequester private property for use that is for the “Good of the Community” and what could be better for the community than having a place where racers and fans can go and at the same time make our city streets saver. This would certainly be a better use of the land that LACR is on than the mining operation of a “Multi Billion Dollar Corporation”! This issue in “Not Going Away” and neither are We! =========================================== “Granite Construction” Corporate Administration 585 West Beach Street Watsonville, CA 95076 Phone: 831-724-1011 Fax: 831-722-9657 info@gcinc.com Sate Officials: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Los Angeles Office 300 South Spring Street Suite 16701 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Phone: 213-897-0322 Fax: 213-897-0319 E-mail governor@governor.ca.gov George Runner - State Senator 848 W Lancaster Blvd. Suite 101 Lancaster, CA 93534 (661) 729-6239 E-mail Form: http://192.234.213.40/PublicLCMS/SenRep/Contact.aspx?district=SD17& Sharon Runner Assemblywomen 36th District 747 West Lancaster Boulevard Lancaster, CA 93534 Phone: (661) 723-3368 Fax: (661) 723-6307 E-mail Assemblywoman.Runner@assembly.ca.gov Los Angeles County Oficials: Zev Yaroslavsky - Chairman of the Board Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors 213-974-3333 zev@bos.lacounty.gov LA County Supervisor 5th District Michael D Antonovich 1113 W. Ave M-4, Suite A Palmdale, CA 93551 (661) 726-3600 Email Form: http://antonovich.co.la.ca.us/forms/index.html#email%20address Palmdale City Officials: James C. Ledford Jr., Mayor jledford@cityofpalmdale.org Mike Dispenza, Mayor Pro Tem mdispenza@cityofpalmdale.org Steven D. Hofbauer, Councilmember shofbauer@cityofpalmdale.org Stephen Knight, Councilmember steveknight@cityofpalmdale.org Tom Lackey, Councilmember TomLackey@cityofpalmdale.org Steve Williams, City Manager swilliams@cityofpalmdale.org
Link: http://www.SaveLACR.org
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First and foremost I would like to thank “All The Supporters” that came to the City Council Meeting” it's because of you that we were heard and because of you that we “Will Fight On”, till the issue of the closing of LACR is resolved!
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