To view the webinar of this program, click here.

Files presented during the program:

• Black Oak Ridge Conservation Easement (BORCE)
• proposed racetrack inside Horizon Center and surrounding BORCE
• 1996 Mitigated FONSI EA-1113 in which "Exclusion Areas" are delineated and protections defined
• original deed filed in Roane County 1996, with covenants, use restrictions, and provision for damages
• report under the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) Act, establishing BORCE (and its value defined)
• letter of 02 Oct 2020 from EQAB to City Council
• letter of 21 Oct 2020 from all EQAB members to DOE detailing our research and findings
• ORR Land Use Study Group 2002 Part One
• ORR Land Use Study Group 2002 Part Two

The League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge invites community friends to its virtual Lunch with the League gathering at Noon, Tuesday, December 1. Robert Kennedy, chair of the city's Environmental Quality Advisory Board and systems engineer at Tetra Tech in Oak Ridge, will give an update on the status of the city’s consideration of allowing a motorsports park complex at the Horizon Center in west Oak Ridge.

Arguing that the proposed development is “profoundly flawed on the grounds of ecology, economy and good and open governance,” the Environmental Quality Advisory Board (EQUAB), charges that the motorsports complex’s plans to cut across previously protected natural areas and introduce unacceptably high decibels of noise, would endanger plant and animal habitats—a direct infraction, EQUAB insists, of the city’s 25-year-old contract with the Department of Energy in which it promises not to allow activities with “potential to cause a significant adverse impact to the sensitive areas which are a part of the Natural Area.”

Committed throughout its 100 year history to the work of enabling enlightened public participation in government decisions, the League of Women Voters welcomes members and nonmembers alike to this informative session. For instruction on linking to the live Zoom presentation, contact maryannreeves1 [at] att.net. A couple of days following the presentation, the recorded presentation may be viewed on the League’s website (https://my.lwv.org/tennessee/oak-ridge).

The League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge is a nonpartisan political organization for both men and women. It encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.