Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Pala Raceway Noise

Fallbrook Bonsall Village News - Pala Tribe rebuts issue of raceway noise

Debbie Ramsey
Managing Editor

Here are some excerpts from the article:

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The Rainbow Community Planning Group has stated that the Pala Band of Mission Indians has responded to its latest written plea (Aug. 19) for help in regards to a noise issue coming from Pala Raceway that they say is disrupting peaceful living. Unfortunately it wasn’t the answer they were hoping to hear.

RCPG chairman Dennis Sanford said the group received a letter dated Aug. 29 from Pala Chairman Robert Smith, which essentially said noise from the raceway does not exceed legal limits and the Tribe would not require the operators of the raceway to take any further steps to reduce noise.

"We have no proof of the sound levels as their study results were not shared and we had no access [to them]," said Sanford. "County ordinances govern noise levels being emitted from various sources. We have been told by the Tribe that because they are a "sovereign nation" they can do whatever they want and are not subject to various laws and ordinances."
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In regards to taking any other measures to reduce noise emitting from the track, Smith said those measures would be "prohibitively expensive." 

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