So a few of points...
I suspect that the homeowners have no legitimate legal recourse, and that their very best course of action might be to attempt some constructive sit-down meetings with the track owners to see if they can find any common ground.
1. Area residents (of which I am one) tried on multiple occasions to have "constructive sit-down meetings with the track". Residents came to these meetings with noise management plans from other facilities to use as a template - instead of using them as a starting point, the track walked away each time, claiming any noise limits at all would make the track financially unviable.
2. There is plenty of legal recourse, as current track activities are not allowed under existing zoning. This is now a full blown lawsuit, filed as of last Monday:
https://www.sahtlamn...l-Press-Release
https://www.sahtlamn...6/09/Lawsuit-QA
3. There can be an endless discussion about whether the municipality screwed up by not requiring a rezoning (likely GAIN's position, when this gets to court) or whether GAIN flat out lied about what their track activities would be (position of some municipal councillors, supported by existing documentation). We'll never resolve that here, and really, it doesn't matter much at this point.
What does matter is a judge will rule in late summer on whether the residents are right in asserting this is a massive zoning violation. If a judge rules in our favour, the track will be required to immediately cease operation, until the zoning is resolved. That will require a lengthy and very public rezoning process.
You can form your own conclusions on lawsuit viability by reading up on the full history of how this track was enabled, complete with fully documented references, here:
https://www.sahtlamn...-The-Full-Story
Actually, it's not quite a full history. Some bits where left out as not relevant to the timeline. For example, the development permit application filed by GAIN specifically said "street legal vehicles", which is NOT what they are doing. The environmental assessor was told "street legal vehicles, one vehicle on the track at a time" - neither of those conditions have been abided by.
4. It needs to be clear that the issue with the track isn't about having Driver Training Days for the Rolex set and their new baby Cayman or whatever. Nobody cares about those, because they are no louder than normal street traffic. And it's certainly not about a facility that caters to 1%ers, as some of us ourselves are in that category.
The core issue is the track is running full blown race cars - literally actual race cars - in timed events, at volume levels that will make your ears bleed, at unscheduled times, with literally zero noise mitigation, on a racetrack built on the side of a hill so the sound radiates unobstructed for miles.
The whole thing is a colossal f-up of epic proportions. This is currently the only track in North America that operates anywhere near a residential area with no noise management plan and no noise mitigation. And it was built without a single public hearing. Nothing is ever a slam dunk when it comes to court....but if I were a paying member...I'd be looking for a refund before the whole thing goes irretrievably sideways. Because good luck getting your $50k-$200k out of a broke numbered company in Ontario...