Post by Dawn on Mar 21, 2007 9:29:26 GMT -5
Commission Rejects All-Terrain Park
Vote Follows Many Objections To Proposed Use
BENTONVILLE -- Tahni Rogers of Stone Ridge Estates said she would leave the Bentonville area if the city approved a proposed recreational, all-terrain park near where she lives.
"I will want to leave as fast as I can. I cannot let my daughter view a dirt park," Rogers said.
Bentonville's "the most beautiful place" Rogers has ever seen, which is why she moved close to the city limits from Dallas a year ago, she said.
She plans to stay now that the Bentonville Planning Commission denied a conditional use permit for the facility that was planned on East Ford Springs Road, north of Interstate 540.
About 15 residents of the area objected to the proposed 154-acre development that would have been for dirt bikes and four-wheelers, rock and hill climbing, primitive camping and fishing.
Anticipated noise from the all-terrain vehicles was among the chief complaints from residents.
"I've been around dirt bike parks. It will create dust pollution problems, increased traffic, noise will ricochet through that valley. It will be a mile or two that you will hear these bikes at all time," said Mike Whited of Stone Ridge Estates.
Jim Patterson said he's waited patiently for a state permit to expire so Gary Combs would cease mining red dirt on the property near his property.
Patterson, who declined to clarify the spelling of his last name or speak with reporters, lives east of the property, about 150 yards from the fence line.
"I haven't been too opposed to the red dirt pit ... We can live with that. Of course, we can live with cows and pigs," he said.
Cindy Bruce, who lives in a nearby 800-square-foot cabin, also mentioned cows and pigs as a viable option for Combs, "as long as he feeds them and provides shelter," she said.
"That's great with all of us," she added.
Some regarded an all-terrain park as an embarrassment to the city.
"I tell you, as Interstate 540 serves as a gateway to Crystal Bridges and the rest of the wealth that Northwest Arkansas has to offer, I would be ashamed of people driving by a 154-acre park" like this, said Robert Zimmerman of Stone Ridge Estates.
A motocross in this area doesn't make sense to Chad Kalagias, who told the Planning Commission he was even a motocross racer.
"There is currently a motocross park approximately 10 miles" away in Centerton, called Challenger Park Motocross, Kalagias said. "I don't think this area has enough people in the area to support this park. There isn't enough people to support three tracks in this area."
There are also motocross sites in Gravette and Watts, Okla.
Here's my comment on the page:
Rebel Dawn wrote on March 21, 2007 9:26 AM:
"Sweet. We need another place to ride. Oh boo hoo, they'll lose a few residents, dang for them. Challenger Park stood up to local residents and they're still there! If you put a pig farm in, it'll stink and linger threw the valley's to their homes...OMG...what about the waste runoff? UGH...LOL!"
Vote Follows Many Objections To Proposed Use
BENTONVILLE -- Tahni Rogers of Stone Ridge Estates said she would leave the Bentonville area if the city approved a proposed recreational, all-terrain park near where she lives.
"I will want to leave as fast as I can. I cannot let my daughter view a dirt park," Rogers said.
Bentonville's "the most beautiful place" Rogers has ever seen, which is why she moved close to the city limits from Dallas a year ago, she said.
She plans to stay now that the Bentonville Planning Commission denied a conditional use permit for the facility that was planned on East Ford Springs Road, north of Interstate 540.
About 15 residents of the area objected to the proposed 154-acre development that would have been for dirt bikes and four-wheelers, rock and hill climbing, primitive camping and fishing.
Anticipated noise from the all-terrain vehicles was among the chief complaints from residents.
"I've been around dirt bike parks. It will create dust pollution problems, increased traffic, noise will ricochet through that valley. It will be a mile or two that you will hear these bikes at all time," said Mike Whited of Stone Ridge Estates.
Jim Patterson said he's waited patiently for a state permit to expire so Gary Combs would cease mining red dirt on the property near his property.
Patterson, who declined to clarify the spelling of his last name or speak with reporters, lives east of the property, about 150 yards from the fence line.
"I haven't been too opposed to the red dirt pit ... We can live with that. Of course, we can live with cows and pigs," he said.
Cindy Bruce, who lives in a nearby 800-square-foot cabin, also mentioned cows and pigs as a viable option for Combs, "as long as he feeds them and provides shelter," she said.
"That's great with all of us," she added.
Some regarded an all-terrain park as an embarrassment to the city.
"I tell you, as Interstate 540 serves as a gateway to Crystal Bridges and the rest of the wealth that Northwest Arkansas has to offer, I would be ashamed of people driving by a 154-acre park" like this, said Robert Zimmerman of Stone Ridge Estates.
A motocross in this area doesn't make sense to Chad Kalagias, who told the Planning Commission he was even a motocross racer.
"There is currently a motocross park approximately 10 miles" away in Centerton, called Challenger Park Motocross, Kalagias said. "I don't think this area has enough people in the area to support this park. There isn't enough people to support three tracks in this area."
There are also motocross sites in Gravette and Watts, Okla.
Here's my comment on the page:
Rebel Dawn wrote on March 21, 2007 9:26 AM:
"Sweet. We need another place to ride. Oh boo hoo, they'll lose a few residents, dang for them. Challenger Park stood up to local residents and they're still there! If you put a pig farm in, it'll stink and linger threw the valley's to their homes...OMG...what about the waste runoff? UGH...LOL!"