Looks like Race City will be done after this year. A real shame, as it also provided a good outlet for people to "prove" their cars in a safe environment as opposed to on the city streets.
It seems that Bronco and his buddies at City Council can do what they want, even though it would appear that Race City had a lease for at least another 15 years.
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According to Mr. Mackenzie, the lease has been re-negotiated several times since the track opened in the early 1980s. The current version requires the lessee (Race City) to notify the City every five years of its intention to extend the lease for an additional five years. In 2000 Mr. Mackenzie says he filed the appropriate documents with City Hall indicating his desire to lease the land from 2005 to 2010. He did the same in 2005 for 2010 to 2015.
Now here comes an important point: when he filed in the past, Mr. Mackenzie says he never once received a written acknowledgement that the documents were received or that the City agreed to extend the lease. Instead, his lease manager would call him up and say everything’s ok. Oh, and one other point. The City kept cashing his cheques.
Sometime in mid-decade the Alberta government changed its environmental regulations. The pressure was on to build a storm water retention pond for the Shepard Landfill. Conveniently, Race City was right next door.
What about that pesky lease to 2025? According to Mr. Mackenzie, he was told his lease agent no longer worked for the City and they couldn’t find his documents.
Furthermore, and here’s the real kicker, the City now claimed that the lease had expired in 2000, that none of the extensions had been acted upon and Race City had been allowed to overrun its lease out of the goodness of the City’s flinty little heart. Never mind that Mr. Mackenzie had been told several times by the City lease agent that his lease was in good order and that the extensions had been filed properly.
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http://www.secalgarynews.com/opinion...-by-city-hall/
I guess Mr. Mackenzie should have been more insistent on written verification by the bureaucrats.
