HEARING SET FOR PROPOSED RACE TRACK LAWSUIT
A hearing date has been set later this month in the 21st District Court of Washington County in the lawsuit over a proposed race track near Chappell Hill.
Judge Caron Campbell will hear the reply from the defendants in the case, Charles Von Schmidt and Club Track Holdings, on Thursday, March 26th at 10 a.m. in the 21st District Court of Washington County. A group of Chappell Hill landowners filed a civil suit in late January seeking a permanent injunction to stop the race track from being built, saying it would devalue their property. They include Helen and Chad Phillips, Charles and Danielle Fridge, OCF Cattle Company owned by Matt and Christi Strock, Ron and Lynn Holder, and J.T. Davis, owner of Dingo Ranch. The proposed site is on 450 acres of the Mel Acres Ranch just south of US 290 in Chappell Hill.
Attorneys for Von Schmidt and Club Track Holdings are seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed, saying that no actual damages have occurred. Attorney Audrey Manito has filed an answer to the lawsuit saying “no land has been purchased, no road racing circuit has been built, and no road racing circuit plans have been finalized.” And that the landowners’ opposition to Von Schmidt’s acquisition and development of the land “are based on indefinite plans, rumors and hypotheticals they have conjured up themselves”.
21st District Judge Carson Campbell will preside over the hearing on Thursday, March 26th at 10 a.m. in the Washington County courthouse in Brenham.
I agree with motherof2 get a life everybody and “God Bless America” and go RACETRACK!
I side with Mr. Von Schmidt. Let the court decide based on state law. If he follows all the environmental concerns, as he has promised, let him build his track. I feel the benefits to the area outweigh the concerns of a few wealthy individuals that never want to see change come. May the best legal team win.
The noise will cancel any economic benefit. I live about a mile from the site and it will interfere with the peaceful occupancy of my property. Whoever you are, oldtexan, please invite them to build in your neighborhood. It is not the wealthy few trying to keep this atrocity out, it is 1500 or so working people. The wealthy “Entitled Ones” are trying to destroy our way of life. I have been part of Chappell Hill life since May, 1955, and my family since 1840.
Get some courage and use your real name, instead of hiding behind a nom de plume.
Your statement perfectly represents the typical landowner in the area that I described in my previous post. You feel that you are entitled to controlling what someone else does with their land. Why, because you have lived here since 1955? Do you really think that gives you some sort of seniority power over what other landowners can or can’t do? Nonsense. Try to apply that type of logic to homeowners inside city limits where there are actual zoning regulations. How do you think they feel when a section 8 housing project gets built near their home? Will it affect their way of life, noise they hear, traffic in the area and so on? Sure it will, but that doesn’t stop it from happening. Buying land in the country doesn’t give you guaranteed permanent peace and quiet.
I think it’s safe to say that the wealthy individuals with large acreages of land in the area aren’t opposed to “change coming”, they just want to be sure that the change benefits THEM financially. I’m sure they would openly welcome a higher-end subdivision next to their piece of land. That way they could then sell all or some of their land at top dollar prices. It’s not about stopping progress or change for those people, it’s about money. Their are certainly people in the area who genuinely feel that a racetrack will negatively affect their “peace and quiet” style of life. But in the end, that’s just too bad. You don’t get to tell others what they can or can’t do on their own property. Not without city zoning regulations, home owners associations, etc. When you live in the country that is a chance you take.
Cows stink so you can’t have cows. Pasture makes bugs so you can’t have pastures. Trees block my view so you can’t have trees. The lights in your house bother me at night, so you can’t have lights.
Go watch the races and leave people alone. It’s their land and if you don’t want them there then buy them out.
Have a nice day and love freedom,
Mark Blain
AMEN! I’m tired of people thinking they have any business telling their neighbors what to do with their property.
God bless America and let’s go racing!