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Lambourne said:
You can just build a racetrack at your house it in Texas? I need to move there. Anyone have a hot sister with a tragically recently deceased husband I can marry?
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If you had the money to buy the land and build it, I think you could build a track with relatively few problems, as long as you stay in rural areas (in a majority of the states). Only when you get into the city limits of various municipalities, do you start running into major zoning issues and miles of red tape. In the same vein, I've seen numerous developments in Texas that have houses built on their own private runway with hangers in their backyard (as least 1 that is less than 10 years old).

Of course if you are building something and someone finds some rare/endangered animal (and reports it), you might have some trouble, but outside of that, the rural areas are much more lax than the city for what you can do on your own land (unless your in CA/NY/WA/OR, probably).

Also, if you have the money to hit a certain threshold, the US may have an independently wealthy permeant resident visa for citizens of allied nations.
 
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Lambourne said:
You can just build a racetrack at your house it in Texas? I need to move there. Anyone have a hot sister with a tragically recently deceased husband I can marry?
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It's a racetrack that is selling houses on the property. I've driven that track hundreds of times, it is awesome. It's BFE though, the houses are really more of a place to stay during track weekends not a place you'd really want to "live."
 
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Burns said:
If you had the money to buy the land and build it, I think you could build a track with relatively few problems, as long as you stay in rural areas (in a majority of the states). Only when you get into the city limits of various municipalities, do you start running into major zoning issues and miles of red tape. In the same vein, I've seen numerous developments in Texas that have houses built on their own private runway with hangers in their backyard (as least 1 that is less than 10 years old).

Of course if you are building something and someone finds some rare/endangered animal (and reports it), you might have some trouble, but outside of that, the rural areas are much more lax than the city for what you can do on your own land (unless your in CA/NY/WA/OR, probably).

Also, if you have the money to hit a certain threshold, the US may have an independently wealthy permeant resident visa for citizens of allied nations.
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These guys did that:


The amount of money and red tape involved was insane. Do not recommend.
 
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Lambourne said:
You can just build a racetrack at your house it in Texas? I need to move there. Anyone have a hot sister with a tragically recently deceased husband I can marry?
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When Mrs. Haus Mrs. Haus and I pull off "project peaches" there is a part of me that has thought about building a basic track that surrounds the perimeter of the land (which yes, would be moderately boring lest I throw in some variances, but still) under the auspices of "getting around the property". heh I remember once someone sent me the plans/layout for "how much land would it take to build a replica of the OG Top Gear lap track". But to be honest as mentioned, if you're going to get enough land might as well build a private airstrip as your "long straight away", and a track off one end of it.

Get out into unincorporated land away from the cities in Texas and it's pretty wide open when you can do with your land. Only real trick is mining/drilling for oil if you don't also own mineral rights to your land.

And as Cad said, Motosports Ranch is a great track, but he's right it's out in the middle of nowhere if you are a "city dweller". Also they have 2 tracks, one with longer straight aways, and one more like what you'd think of from Top Gear.
 
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Cad said:
These guys did that:


The amount of money and red tape involved was insane. Do not recommend.
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While it's an interesting project, it looks like they were building it with the option to use it for commercial purposes, so it had to be zoned/permitted as such? I cant get the construction photos to show up on Vivaldi or Chrome, but I am guessing that they put in a in ground fuel station as well, which is probably a huge headache.

I was more thinking that if you want to buy your own 300+ acre ranch and lay down a mile+ of high quality pavement for "personal" use, it wouldn't be that much trouble.
 
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And as Cad said, Motosports Ranch is a great track, but he's right it's out in the middle of nowhere if you are a "city dweller". Also they have 2 tracks, one with longer straight aways, and one more like what you'd think of from Top Gear.
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They have the 1.8 and the 1.3 which are the two halves, they used to just have the 1.8 and added the second part. There's a 3.1 mile track that combines both which is pretty spicy as well.
 
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Burns said:
While it's an interesting project, it looks like they were building it as a possible business, so it had to be zoned/permitted as such? I cant get the construction photos to show up on Vivaldi or Chrome, but I am guessing that they put in a in ground fuel station as well, which is probably a huge headache.

I was more thinking that if you want to buy your own 300+ acre ranch and lay down a mile+ of high quality pavement for "personal" use, it would be that much trouble.
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No, doing your own thing on private land like that is just a matter of money and bringing the materials in, unless you are in certain zip codes or municipalities, as mentioned. If you open it up to membership or then public use, that’s when it’s likely to get dicey with laws and codes and red tape.
 
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Burren said:
No, doing your own thing on private land like that is just a matter of money and bringing the materials in, unless you are in certain zip codes or municipalities, as mentioned. If you open it up to membership or then public use, that’s when it’s likely to get dicey with laws and codes and red tape.
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Yar, that's what I meant to say. I was typing slower than my brain was moving, and typed "would" instead of "wouldn't."
 
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It's a cool project. I've actually been to one of the private airport developments in FL, pretty damn cool too. Things like that are just impossible here because land prices are so high. Way too many people in a small spot.

Population density:

Texas: 117 people/sq mi
Netherlands: 1380/sq mi
 
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