NOISE ORDINANCE PASSED!

At Town Meeting on March 9, 2005, Tamworth voters passed a targeted noise ordinance that applies the noise limits of the Race Track Ordinance to the "private driving instruction and exhibition facilities" defined in RSA 287-G. Thank you to all who worked to get this passed, and to all who voted for it! 

THREAT TO LOCAL CONTROL CONTINUES

Senate Bill 458, now RSA 287-G, was signed by former Governor Benson in March 2004. By CMI's own admission, it was designed especially to exempt CMI from Tamworth's Race Track Ordinance. See F: T press releases and F: T press coverage from May 2004 for background on the bill and its passage. HB 90, sponsored by Tamworth representatives Harry Merrow and David Babson, attempted to repeal RSA 287-G. It passed the NH House, but failed in the Senate, so RSA 287-G is still in force.

Thanks to all in Tamworth and elsewhere who worked so hard for passage of HB 90, and especially to representatives Merrow and Babson, and representative Peter Schmidt of Dover, who supported the bill vigorously in committee and on the House floor.

We are watching other bills in the legislature for additional threats to local control, and weighing other legislative options of our own.