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Message: [QUOTE="firecracker22, post: 98407, member: 20316"] That's what is happening here in Washington regarding a couple of private club tracks. The club owns the land, specifically, one of the club member's father owns the land. There is a 35-member limit and you must be a member or a guest of a member to ride there. They have owned it and been riding there for 10 years or so. Well old grumpy guy down the road decides he doesn't like the vehicles running up and down the road so he calls the county and tells them the club is having races and parties and 60 or more people riding all over the place. So the county pokes their noses in. The old guy exaggerated; the track isn't exacly at the end of the dirt road, so a large percentage of the traffic has nothing to do with the track. His house is well off the road so the dust and noise can't be a huge issue. You can't even hear or see the track from the road as it's downhill a ways. They have never had races; the most organized events are club trail cleanup parties. There aren't 60 members. So the guy just wanted to raise a fuss. The thing is, the club is 100 percent legal. They haven't moved enough dirt, held competitions, or anything else that would require special zoning or permits. But they have to tread on thin ice, limit their hours, guests and number of vehicles, and schmooze with everybody just to keep doing something they had every right to do in the first place. That's bull-hooey. :think [/QUOTE]