Good News !!
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch...
New Kent Supervisors Approve Motor-Sports Park
Richmond Times-Dispatch Jun 8, 2004
New Kent County supervisors gave the green light for a 616-acre motor-sports park in the eastern part of the county with a 3-2 vote Monday night.
Plans for DragonsRidge Motorsports Park include a 2.95-mile track for sports cars and motorcycles and a 1-mile track for go-karts that could be used year-round for private and public events within 2 miles of the Interstate 64 and state Route 33 interchange.
The developer, Dominion Land Ventures LLC of Hampton, also proposes retail, office and resort development, including a conference center, museum, racing school and miniature golf as part of the seven-phase, $54 million development. The track could open as early as March 2006, Jeff Booth, general manager of DragonsRidge, said.
After the board's decision, about 100 people left the supervisors' meeting room in protest. Opponents, dozens of whom spoke at a public hearing June 1, said the tracks would ruin life for residents of the rural area with nonstop noise and traffic.
(FYI- Summit Pt. had the same type of local protests when obtaining approval for its third track, the Shenandoah Circuit, slated to open late, late Summer or early Fall. -HS)