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Elk"River'Star News / 11."
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<br /> [ Trac' kreètrictions kick..
<br /> ! up ' dust Sherburne.
<br /> Owners make . . .
<br /> feelings known:. . _---ti
<br /> How the ordinance ry 0
<br /> by Jana Astrup �J aea
<br /> Associate editor restricts tracks .
<br /> Stricter rules restricting
<br /> private dirt-bike trac Here are some of the`Gestrictons spelled out the!'new
<br /> ks in are ordinance
<br /> kicking up dust across ,
<br /> Sherburne County. •Private motorsport facilities-and tracks'for dirt bikes,,
<br /> A,.new ordinance passed all terrain vehicles, `mud tracks," race cars and similar
<br /> by the Sherburne County vehicles must be,located on a minimum of 20'acres
<br /> Board of Commissioners , •They?mustbe located at-least 1,000:feet away from
<br /> ' last month requires private any residence,except that of the owner:
<br /> motorsport facilities and •They Must be at least1,000`feet from a livestock fad-
<br />' tracks to be located on',a ity except that,of the gwner
<br /> minimum;of 20 ages and ,<•they are not'allowed in a residential plat, ,.
<br /> at "least 1,000 feet away.
<br /> •Use of the facile is•limited to the property owner'and
<br /> from'an _home• r'live took �� �
<br /> • facility y o s irnmediste family who live on the property. , •
<br /> ` ,c :•The coun ma limit the days and hours of op eration:
<br /> Violation o f the ordnance y y
<br /> is a misdemeanor;and car. =,•No more than two:vehicles.may operate at one time.
<br /> nes a maximum penalty of ,,. Source Sherburne County Zoning Office
<br /> $1,OQO fine;and 90 days in ,' _
<br /> Brian4 Godfrey is one of 'working ;with neighbors is requests from people seek-'
<br /> those affected by ,theFnew' the best way toJ solve..any 'dust relief from. the.-noise,
<br /> rules: problems3with the tracks ; dust and odor associated
<br /> He has,a curt bike 'track--.- "In my.particular -situa with the tracks.
<br /> on, 6.4 acres ..of land tion, I had a problem with She. said the volume .of
<br /> between, Zimmerman axed one person and I.worked it complaints prompted the
<br /> Princeton that he and,his out with • him," Godfrey board to act.
<br /> two children can no longer said. "Obviously you have "Before it got any:worse,
<br /> legally use. '- to co-exist.If someone has a we had to do something,"
<br /> "The way the rule is,tech- track and their neighbors she.said.
<br /> nically,I can go to ja�,I for 90 hate it and they ride every Now,those with the tracks.
<br /> days if my Inds are riding single night or every;.day, are making their feelings
<br /> their mini�likes, a said.:' _ well then you're`asking for known. Wergin said she is
<br /> Godfrey, .who is general trouble." surprised at the number of .
<br /> manager of Precision Line Meanwhile, Sherburne calls she is getting.
<br /> Motorsports ..in . Rogers, County Board Chair Betsy She knows, that some of
<br /> believes the new ordinance Wergin said the board's '_the. tracks affected have
<br /> i is entirely too broad.- vote to pass the stricter never had a complaint'
<br /> tiHe said he's had only one rules was a no-win deci- against them.
<br /> complaint about his track sion. "That's the bad part.But if
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<br /> in five years �That came The people who have had we make a rule it has to
<br /> f from a neighbor. Godfrey to`live.next to them ... .feel apply to everyone," she
<br /> said he worked with the like they finally got some- said -
<br /> I man and they came up with one to hear them . . .`and She looks for the board to
<br /> a compromise: Godfrey and the people who have the discuelse)
<br /> s the matter agai n.
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<br /> his buddies would mainly tracks are saying,`You took "I truly hope we can figure
<br /> ride on Friday nights. ours away.'This is not going out what to do to at least
<br /> l "Since then its never been to be ,a 'good situation to„ make, the main,my .oft the
<br /> a problem, Godfrey said deal with.'!,;',' 1k; '''t «F people; happy, she 'said:
<br /> 'He said he even gave up ' She said the board knew "But how"-"do you -run a
<br /> one Friday night of riding that when it enacted the motorized track in a subdi-
<br /> because his neighbor was rules July 10. But she said vision?"
<br /> hosting a groom's dinner. - commissioners had been
<br /> He thinks neighbors receiving numerous
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