{"id":273403,"date":"2025-10-03T02:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:18:10","slug":"north-carolina-law-shields-race-tracks-from-noise-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273403\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina law shields race tracks from noise complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new North Carolina law shields race tracks from noise complaints by nearby property owners.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 A new North Carolina law ensures drivers can start their engines throughout the Tar Heel State without intervention from upset neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Section 26 of House Bill 926 is titled &#8220;Protect the right to race&#8221; and prohibits action against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">race tracks<\/a> from nearby property owners for nuisance complaints. The bill was passed in September and later ratified by Gov. Josh Stein.<\/p>\n<p>The bill defines an area around a race track as a 3-mile radius of the perimeter of the property.<\/p>\n<p>This protects tracks across the state as long as they have a valid permit to operate and have been open longer than the property owners have owned their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Racing, particularly stock car racing, has been embedded in North Carolina for over a century. The first Charlotte Speedway <a href=\"https:\/\/specialcollections.charlotte.edu\/exhibits\/ms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">opened in 1924<\/a>, with Bowman Gray (1937), Occoneechee Speedway (1947), North Wilkesboro (1947), and Hickory Speedway (1951) opening later on, along with other tracks across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Motor Speedway opened at its present location in 1960 and has hosted NASCAR races ever since, including the Coca-Cola 600 and Roval 400.<\/p>\n<p>The motorsports industry contributes around $3.82 billion per year in North Carolina, a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sema.org\/news-media\/press-release\/sema-and-pri-applaud-new-nc-law-protecting-racetracks-nimbys#:~:text=Motorsports%2520in%2520the%2520U.S.%2520has,than%2520%2524477%2520million%2520in%2520taxes.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ccording to the Specialty Equipment Market Association<\/a>. NASCAR has corporate offices in the Charlotte area. Nearly every team is located within the state, around Concord, Huntersville, and Mooresville.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the sport&#8217;s place in American history, many tracks across the country face criticism from neighbors for noise-related reasons. Tracks in California (Laguna Seca), Maine (Get Er Done), and Oregon (Portland), among others, have faced potential closure due to noise complaints.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina race fans can feel at ease, though, that state legislators are leading the pack in protecting the industry &#8212; from the green flag to the checkered flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new North Carolina law shields race tracks from noise complaints by nearby property owners. CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-273403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115307840115394981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}