High Rock Raceway:
Race Track Watch!
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High Rock Raceway: Race Track Watch! |
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Court-ordered restraining order repeatedly stops unpermitted racetrack work --
Stop-work order issued on racetrack in Town of Spencer, by William Keesler, Lexington Dispatch, August 28, 2007
Work stopped at proposed racetrack: Officials say owner doesn't have permit to allow grading, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, August 28, 2007
Race track red flagged: Restraining order stops work at Spencer site, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, September 27, 2007
Race track owner agrees to stop work: sludge removal, erosion control plan at center of battle with county, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, October 9, 2007
Race track project on hold again, Staff report, Salisbury Post, February 15, 2008
Developer fined for violations at troubled track, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, May 23, 2008
Racetrack avoids contamination issues --
For further information, see News, and search the archives of the Salisbury Post and the Lexington Dispatch, or visit the racetrack's own website: High Rock RacewayRisdon: Critics have exaggerated raceway problems; Environmental officials say Risdon has a lot of work to do before he can redevelop it, by Frank DeLoache and Holly Lee, Salisbury Post, August 31, 2007
Draft inactive Brownfield agreement drawn up in 2005 but never finalized
Development of High Rock Raceway would build parking lots and a racetrack on 200 acres of the heart of the Yadkin River Bridge Civil War battlefield. This project also would block access to the 1818 Ithiel Town Bridge, the Ferry crossed by Jefferson Davis at the close of the Civil War, as well as disturb a stream along which Revolutionary War armies camped in the fall of 1780.
All information on this webpage accurate as of July 6, 2008. Racetrack Watchdog.