Accolades to the editors and reporters of The Herald for your recent story entitled “NASCAR site packed.” You have successfully demonstrated, with your building permits mapping program, what the members of SCAR (Snohomish County Citizens Against Racetrack) have been saying since early in the year. Namely, that 6,000 or more homes, with more than 17,000 people, live within two miles of the proposed racetrack site in north Marysville and one development of 294 homes, not citing several other developments, are less than one mile from the track site.
I was not amazed at the disingenuous statement of Marysville Mayor Dennis Kendall that he was caught off-guard at the number of homes within two miles of his city’s proposed track site. Either he and/or his staff is incompetent and should be voted out of office or the administration is sadly lacking in available research capability for a major project proposal as the NASCAR racetrack – especially when many of the newspaper’s article quotes are from residents living right next door to the proposed track site within Marysville city limits. What was the city going to do, buy out all these homes or just force residents to take a permanent financial loss on their homes’ value and then raise taxes to make up the loss of revenue?
As we get closer to the date for International Speedway Corp.’s Pacific Northwest track site selection, are the City of Marysville and the Snohomish County executive going to finally admit they were too hasty in issuing a proposal to ISC before enough research was accomplished (by listening to the 17,000 voters) and withdraw their proposal? Or are they going to blindly continue on the path to significant financial loss to the City of Arlington in reduction of Arlington Airport revenues and property values plus significant impacts to all state residents from bond issues similar to Safeco Field and Seahawk Stadium?
GERALD M. SCHACKMAN
Arlington
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