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Why a Racing Facility at Cooper Stadium would Kill Downtown Neighborhood Home Values
May 2nd, 2008 categories: Columbus News, Downtown
On last night’s news and on page one of today’s Dispatch, there is news about turning the Cooper Stadium site on the near South-West side into a half-mile track facility for cars and possibly a seperate track for drag racing. We’ve all heard of similar plans since the Clippers announced they were moving to a new ball park in the Arena District but I certainly didn’t realize the Franklin County Commissioners were behind this scenario and gearing up for a vote.
I don’t know why all the press is sooo positive on this. I readily admit that I am not a racing fan. I don’t get it. I don’t begrudge anyone their sport of choice but do you realize how LOUD this is going to be? We’re trying to sell the world on what a great neighborhood Downtown Columbus is. Do we need to hear race cars roaring all through the weekend in German village, on Miranova balconies, in my back yard in Olde Towne East? That is the kind of noise that carries unbelievably far. Every Summer I hear the Tractor Pulls at the State Fair. This will be much worse.
Oh, they’ll plant a few trees and put up a sound deadening wall. Well, OK then. I’ve shown homes behind such walls from the Columbus’ highways and I’m thinking more like a super hero-type invisible sound bubble encompassing all of Mid Town Columbus’ neighborhoods. No one asked those in the North Campus or Linden or Milo Grogan areas if it was OK to turn Crew Stadium into an outdoor concert venue and I’m betting no one is asking West Side residents what they think. Remember the brew-ha-ha from the community around Polaris Amphitheater? That was a controllable decibel level fight. I don’t think you can control race car decibels so easily.
I do want to see something positive happen in that spot for the sake of the West side of town. I’m all for jobs, commercial revitalization and money coming into the county. Not a race venue though. Luckily, too many people with too much money care about downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods to allow that kind of noise pollution to muck up a perfectly good metropolitan city. Right? Right?
Will
May 4th, 2008
I’m looking at moving to Columbus in the next few months to a year. Let’s see how this develops…if these plans are going to go through, neighborhoods in that part of town are definitely going to be off my list real quick.
(Good gosh, I can’t believe anyone would use that much valuable land that close to downtown for something so loud and disruptive to the neighborhoods around it.)
jusep
May 10th, 2008
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