Welfare Mentality
Michele Post made the following comment at her meeting complaining about the noise at the race track. “The motorsports park is our neighbor, and it’s a neighbor that’s done everything we’ve asked them to do,” said Post. “That’s the problem. We have to ask for more.” There it is in a nutshell. Like welfare recipients, these people only want MORE!
Where are these whiners when the cars with the loud boombox stereos blasting rap music roll through our center city neighborhoods at 2 in the morning, shaking the foundations of houses. They are blasting at well over 100db when they startle me from a deep sleep in my bedroom, that I guarantee.
How many people from a local citizens group – CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) – otherwise known as Millville First attended? That fact in itself discredits the entire meeting. Anything these people are involved in has one purpose, and that is to undermine all progress in the city.
Any artist should be ashamed to work hand in hand with this group that has fought the Arts District from the beginning and continues to undermine it today.
It’s really not fair to criticize that meeting because members of
Millville First attended. Guilt by association is not logical. She
is trying to keep her group apolitical.
There is a problem with the noise from the motorsports park.
Ultimately, the noise problem is the fault of government, who set the
the decibel threshold too high. I hear the din of the motors in my
living room. With a one-year-old last summer, it made for an
unpleasant sleep environment.
There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to not hear the engines
in one’s living room just like there is nothing wrong with not wanting
to hear your neighbors in the middle of the night. And if Mr. Porreca
is among those who do not want to hear the engines, it does not
discount that there is an issue.
This is not welfare mentality. This is a desire to return to the
quality of life we had prior to the engines being turned on. Progress
needs to be made in stifling the noise. Perhaps we can get stipends
from the tax abatement coffers to build a sound barrier out here . . .
or is that money only designated for the center of town?
“Ultimately, the noise problem is the fault of government, who set the
the decibel threshold too high. ”
Which government? Millville’s? Wrong.
Millville’s ordinance, if it was ever challenged and ended up in court, would be overturned so fast even Dick Barbour’s Porsche would be left in the dust.
New Jersey law exempts Race Tracks from noise ordinance restrictions. However the NJMP WANTED a noise ordinance. They have bent over backwards to accommodate.
I don’t see ANY jobs coming from the members of Millville First. I do see a certain judge being subsidized to the tune of $225,000 annually by the taxpayers of Millville working to scuttle all progress in the city.
You know people by their company. The judge is underhanded and filthy. he and his crew have worked overtime to destroy the arts district.
The judge may be everything you say. The reality is that the noise still invades my home. This has nothing to do with Millville First.
Jeff “I Sponsor Every Bill” Van Drew and his little buddy pushed through legislation that created a special racretrack district that kicks back tax dollars to the developer. Millville, a UEZ, gets to bypass those tax rates at the park. The “extra” tax goes into a pot in Trenton that gets spent (or leveraged). It will eventually be given back to the developer. Shady politics at its worse.
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