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A Message from AFORR on the proposed Motorsports complex
Virginia Dale and Ellen Smith A real estate developer wants to build a motorsports complex in an Oak Ridge industrial park. The site has significant ecological and recreational value. The US Department of Energy (DOE) transferred the Horizon Center land for industrial...
Voice your opposition to DOE’s Environmental Assessment Addendum & proposed Motorsports Park today!
Deadline for comments is Wednesday, October 21. Submit comments to Katatra Vasquez at Katatra.Vasquez@science.doe.gov Last week TCWP published talking points that could be used to help you respond to DOE's Environmental Assessment addendum for the Horizon Center and...
TVA request for a landfill at Bull Run Public Hearing
On Tuesday, February 18th at 4:00 p.m., the Anderson County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing regarding a request by TVA to construct a new sixty (60) acre landfill on the TVA owned Bull Run Fossil Fuel Plant site located at 1265 Edgemoor Road,...
Opposes motorsports proposal too
Below is a reprinted letter to the editor by Anne Child published online by The Oak Ridger on Nov. 20, 2020. To the Editor: David Wilson, chair of the Industrial Development Board (IDB), wrote a guest column to update us on the Motorsports Park project proposed for...
Plea to TCWP Members Regarding the Motorsports Park Proposal
The Department of Energy has released an Addendum to the Environmental Assessment (EA) at the Horizon Center (HC). The addendum details a proposal favored by the Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board (IDB) that would remove or modify protection for natural area...
Proposed 69-kV Power Line in West Oak Ridge
The city of Oak Ridge’s efforts to set a route for a 69-kV power line to Horizon Center, a largely unused industrial park in the west part of the city, continue. While the need for additional electricity is not in dispute, the path it might take is the subject of...
MOTORSPORTS PARK – City of Oak Ridge Officials need to hear your oppositions
The Industrial Development Board, Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission, and Oak Ridge City Council will all be meeting this month and chances are they will be discussing the proposed motorsports park proposed for the Horizon Center in West Oak Ridge. We...
WE NEED TO ACT NOW: DOE seeks public input on Environmental Assessment Addendum at Horizon Center
The Department of Energy has released a notice of document availability for an addendum to the Environmental assessment at the Horizon Center. The addendum removes natural area spaces between the three tracts of land that the Industrial Development Board has voted in...