Monday, August 23, 2010
Around Town Fair Play? No Fourth Public Meeting on Fairgrounds' Future
Posted by Tracy Moore on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Turns out, though, there were only three meetings. (The May meeting was canceled after the flood and apparently never rescheduled.) So if you didn't show up for the July 12 discussion of the future of the 117 acres, your ideas for what to do — or what not to do — with the fairgrounds will go unheard.
According to the Civic Design Center's design director Gary Gaston, the "process is completed," and he's currently at work finalizing the report to present to the mayor's task force. They expect it to be released to the public before Labor Day. As for what happened to the elusive fourth meeting, it must have been a miscommunication.
"We had talked about four meetings, and in the end, we decided to release the report," says Gaston. "Our communication process was what we misunderstood as the fourth meeting being the release."
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the fair grounds were donated to the city of Nashville as a place of gathering, flea markets, car shows, fairs and so much more. it has been apart of Nashville for 100 years who r they to take that away from us. if they do, they will regret nobody will live in their raggedy projects. there are plenty of projects in nashville THATS ALL THATS BEIN BUILT HERE NO WONDER PPL RESULT TO VIOLENCE YOU TAKE AWAY EVERYTHING GOOD
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Awesome. I sure hope some developer builds more condos that can sit vacant, like the ones in the Gulch. I sure hope someone builds a Best Buy and a Dick's Sporting Goods and some other crappy retail stores with plastic stone facades. Nashville needs more bland.
Keep On Raci'n at the speedway!!! Put up special sound deadening walls around the track (Simular to the ones found along side many interstates) so people wont bitch and complain or piss and moan about the noise, Bunch of damn whiners!
Don't let this track die like so many have in the past from the community acting like a bunch of snot nosed little kids whining because they noise is too loud when there is an easy solution to the issue that dosent involve re development or track demolition and the track can still remain operational with the sound deadning walls surrounding the track so the little whiners that live in the area wont cry because of the noise.
If anything the track should be added to the national historic registry of historical places as a historical site given all the history of the track.
Not be destroyed or converted into something its not when it has a real and lasting history in the Nashville area that needs to be preserved not thrown away.
Just like the racing shouldent end at the track when there is alot that can be done to keep it operational for not only this generation but for future generations asawell and to limit the sound during a race (the sound deadning walls, cirtian kind of mufflers on the cars, lower volume from the PA announcers or live radio broadcast of the PA announcers for the fans in attendance during a race to limit the track noise during a race)
See there is plenty of other alternatives to keep the racing alive and going at the track so the little whiners that live near the track wont complain about the noise, They where the ones that moved there to begin with and the track was and has been there long before most of them even moved there so, Why should the track get penilized and shut down when its not even the tracks fault that the people moved there to begin with?
They knew there was racing and some noise there when they moved there, Cant blame the track for the stupid people that moved in around the track when the track was holding weekly races well before they moved there, How stupid are these people anyway and furthermore what did they expect...Morons!!!
