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Hurricane Ian Wreaks Havoc On Cleetus McFarland’s Shop And Garage
Most of Cleetus McFarland's cars are safe, but the ones parked outside the warehouse had to be pulled out from the wreckage.
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Cleetus McFarland’s Freedom Factory Could Be Killed by Suburban Sprawl
Automotive YouTuber Cleetus McFarland is calling fans to action to protect his race track from urban development.
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Yeah, the whole situation is fucked up. The dude who sold it to him is a realtor on the city council. Man talk about conflicts of interest. Yolo Douchebag did a decent podcast on the whole thing. As he points out, race track vs 4500 homes who's gonna win?
Yeah, them passing the development does't mean the track has to shut down. But we all know what's going to happen to the track once the new neighbors move in and start bitching about the 'noise'. And you can be sure any realtor selling those homes will downplay the noise to sell the house.
Don't have time to find the decision on the vote right now, but I'm sure it was passed because greedy fucks are thinking about the tax revenue.
So, once those houses are built, and the complaints roll in, they'll be forced to cut hours, and that will kill both the strip and oval.
Unless some kind of contractual agreement that's legally binding is put into place that noise from the track is exempt from the ordinances I don't see the track surviving at all.
Yeah, think what $5,000/yr or something in property taxes, so $22.5mm/year in tax revenue there alone. Then start dealing with all the other sales taxes they can collect, etc. Cleetus is fucked.
I don't really have an issue with Cleetus as far as YT's go.
I mean, he's using YT add revenue to support he track, so he's providing a service back to the local community. That's way better than so many other YT's that are pretty much just about "look at Bugatti all you fucks bought me!".
I think where he needs to attack is how long ago the city council was looking into this development. If it was pre-purchase go after this guy for not disclosing. It makes sense he would sell first that land is worth more as a race track than as a plot for some houses before trying to knock it down and build houses.
Same story as Santa Fe Speedway. Started building houses out there and new neighbors complained about noise and traffic. Soon they condemned the land for being unsafe due to the lead content. Tore it down and built McMansions on the property. People used to have to take the train from Chicago to get out there because there where no roads, that's how long they been in business.
This is nothing new to race tracks. It's happened over and over again. It does suck though.
Managee County is having a growth explosion. Highest influx iod people in Florida I believe. So not surprised they are building anywhere there is land. If it isn't homes, it's gas stations, banks, and strip malls.
Managee County is having a growth explosion. Highest influx iod people in Florida I believe. So not surprised they are building anywhere there is land. If it isn't homes, it's gas stations, banks, and strip malls.
I mean is it that bad of a deal, I guess his land is worth a lot more now than what he bought it for. He should be able to sell it and make a killing if that’s the case.
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