Best bet is for him to sell the property and track to the developers for double the money it's worthn and find another piece of property far out and away for something that might not be developed for another fifty or seventy-five years. If he explains or gets some smarter lawyers to explain that it will be cheaper for the home developers to buy the track and property now than to put up a future fight with the noise and smell of racing and walls and traffic and etc., It happens all the time where it's less costly to buy someone out than to fight for decades about issues that will negatively impact you selling homes. Sell it for what it's worth and plus whatever you need to build an improved facility SOMEWHERE ELSE. It will save both of you time and money fighting for decades to come. He's going to lose anyway in the future.
That only works if the developer is even interested in buying the property.
Unless it's stupid cheap they probably won't want it.
A buddy's house in in Fenton Mo and he has 3 acres.
A developer (McBride) bought the former farm next to him (about 80 acres I believe) and is putting in a subdivision.
About half of that is valley and the other is hillside.
Their plan was and is to cut off the hillside and fill the valley and raise the ground lever 18 feet next to his property.
He complained to the developer and the county that would cause flooding issues with his property.
No one listed to his complaints and the county approved the subdivision.
All the county cares about is new real estate taxes on the new homes being built.
He told the developer he would sell them his property an market value, they don't want it.
They have now filled the valley and raised the ground lever 18 feet, and guess what?
Now he has flooding issues on his property when ever there are heavy rains....
They still refuse to buy his property...
He's documented everything from the beginning and the next step is a lawsuit against the developer and the county.
Their excuse for not buying it is they don't have enough fill dirt to bring his property up to the level that they filled the 40+ ares that they already raise the level of so it's not profitable for them to buy it.
The hilarious part is that at the other end of the new subdivision is a trailer park know as meth head central.
