Mecca Farms

dnigels · August 17, 2006, 03:57:40 PM

Everyone in Palm Beach County notify Tony Massilotti to open Mecca Farms (formerly planned for Scripps) to ATV's! Great revenue producer for County. Needed riding area for us. Time to Blitzkreig the Commissioners on this topic!

I AM SERIOUS!

MachineDog · August 17, 2006, 04:00:58 PM

Any email addresses or mail address for him so we all know how to contact him?

yfz450psycho · August 17, 2006, 04:37:02 PM

i am in let me know what we need 2 do

MachineDog · August 17, 2006, 04:38:33 PM

If it gets opened it'd be fricking AWESOME. If they put up the dirt road rule we could get there without even having to trailer, it's right down the freeking road.

dnigels · August 17, 2006, 05:01:32 PM

I will get e-mail addresses and post them tomorrow.

UncleRico · August 17, 2006, 05:27:48 PM

Tony Massollotti aka Tony "The Magician" Massollotti...

...because he makes bodies disappear if ya know what I'm sayin'?

Huh?

Fugheddaboudit!"

I know him from Mario from back in the day.

If you email him, don't forget to mention FRANK RIZZO.

Thrumud · August 17, 2006, 05:30:31 PM

You can even tell the land manager / owner to be at the OHV meeting. It will freak him out when he sees a bunch of ATV enthusiast. Don't give up guys ! You guys really need a place up there. Organize present a plan and hit him/her with it.

Thrumud · August 17, 2006, 05:33:15 PM

Quote from: dnigels on August 17, 2006, 03:57:40 PM
Everyone in Palm Beach County notify Tony Massilotti to open Mecca Farms (formerly planned for Scripps) to ATV's! Great revenue producer for County. Needed riding area for us. Time to Blitzkreig the Commissioners on this topic!

I AM SERIOUS!

Mention this to the OHV advisory committee on Setp 28th and they will help you.

sbripple · August 17, 2006, 07:26:24 PM

ummm you will need to be legal voting age to get their attention.I will contact them too.

MachineDog · August 17, 2006, 08:52:26 PM

If I can send as many emails as I post on this forum, I could probably get their attention.

klutchbuster400 · August 17, 2006, 11:21:36 PM

Quote from: MachineDog on August 17, 2006, 08:52:26 PM
If I can send as many emails as I post on this forum, I could probably get their attention.

Maybe a donut or two will help

cheropride · August 18, 2006, 08:48:18 AM

Quote from: MachineDog on August 17, 2006, 08:52:26 PM
If I can send as many emails as I post on this forum, I could probably get their attention.

Ain't that the truth - lol.

Get the information and I'm, PB is pretty close to us too. That would be great, but actually any new place in Florida would be AWESOME for all of us!!

Please keep us posted with any information - thanks...

dnigels · August 18, 2006, 07:18:17 PM

Quote from: MachineDog on August 17, 2006, 08:52:26 PM
If I can send as many emails as I post on this forum, I could probably get their attention.

Tony Masilotti is the chairman and Mecca is in his district. Unfortunately he is not running for another term (so he says) The candidates for his seat would be ripe for pressure on this topic too.

Commisioners:
Tony Masilotti TMASLOT@co.palm-beach.fl.us 355-6300
Burt Aaronson BAARONSO@co.palm-beach.fl.us 355-2205
Mary McCarty MMCCARTY@co.palm-beach.fl.us 355-2204
Jeff Koons jkoons@co.palm-beach.fl.us 355-2202
Karen Marcus KMARCUS@co.palm-beach.fl.us 355-2201
Warren Newell WNEWELL@co.palm-beach.fl.us 355-2203
Addie Greene agreene@co.palm-beach.fl.us 355-2207

561rincon · August 18, 2006, 07:54:10 PM

well took me 30 mins to write but i think they'll get the point

dnigels · August 21, 2006, 09:39:47 AM

The Palm Beach County Commission is holding a workshop 0n 9/20/06 to decide what to do with the Mecca site. EVERYONE e-mail the commissioners and recommend an ATV park.

dnigels · August 22, 2006, 07:24:40 AM

When you contact the PBC Commissioners regarding an ATV park let them know an ECHO grant may be available to offset startup costs.

561rincon · August 22, 2006, 01:13:24 PM

i wrote them 3 times no response yet

dnigels · August 24, 2006, 07:13:22 AM

Speaking of riding areas, every off-roader in PBC should be suggesting to the county commissioners that the Mecca Farms property next to the Corbett WMA should be turned into an OHV & Skateboard Park. There is approx. 2000 acres of county owned land available, now that Scripps has been relocated. More effort needs to go into aquiring riding areas than complaining about the lack of them. The time is NOW to act on Mecca Farms.....Otherwise, it will be lost to development.....If that happens, we all lose

561rincon · August 26, 2006, 10:12:45 AM

i just wrote fox 29 and asked for some help maybe if they get loads of e-mail on this topic they can get the word spread out that we need this and can get other riders who are not on this site to help us.

561rincon · August 26, 2006, 10:13:23 AM

newstips@wpecnews12.com

MachineDog · August 26, 2006, 11:22:20 AM

Don't write to newstips, it will rally people against our cause. The main thing to think about though, is if it does get lost to development instead of as something else, it's going to cause some huge traffic of tractor trailers, construction equipment, etc. Where if it were decided to be an ATV park they could just let us carve out the land. And even if they ever needed the land for housing, they still could turn it into a development.

sbripple · August 26, 2006, 08:32:20 PM

what?

dnigels · August 26, 2006, 11:16:45 PM

An atv park would be the least obstructive, destructive and certainly the least expensive thing the Commissioners could do with Mecca. Including the idea of moving the fair there.

Eworm · August 26, 2006, 11:26:53 PM

Quote from: dnigels on August 26, 2006, 11:16:45 PM
An atv park would be the least obstructive, destructive and certainly the least expensive thing the Commissioners could do with Mecca. Including the idea of moving the fair there.

Exactly!

Can anyone attend this meeting on 9-20?

yamaha_boy_15 · August 27, 2006, 08:31:29 PM

i thoght they allready were devloping it..
i hunt at corbit like everyweekend but havent been out southgate since beging of summer but yahh keep us updated

dnigels · August 28, 2006, 07:08:52 AM

They cleared about 200 acres (of tot. 2,000) ran some water & electric lines and put in a big concrete slab for the Scripps bldg. but thats it.

yamaha_boy_15 · August 28, 2006, 10:41:07 AM

in the wayy back they had like half of one buliding up..
my dads the suplier of there gasses and welding suplies

mudnuri · September 02, 2006, 09:05:34 AM

What a joke. All that area to ride and because of jerks who sued when they got hurt in the past has led to a total shut down. Along the B-Line HWY, there is so much land (1,000's of acres) that Palm Beach county bought and claims it to be sensitive and all they are doing is going to sell it for developement. We all know it's true. They are going to make a road from Seminole Pratt to the B-line and we know it, too. Towers was a great place to ride and now it is some stupid tax hole. They spent a fourtune digging and making some kind of thing out there. Then decided to try and make it back to the way it was Oops!? That will all be developed and we know it. Development is so out of hand. The corruption leading to the devlopments is absurd and we know it's happening.

561rincon · September 12, 2006, 06:20:03 PM

bump

dnigels · September 20, 2006, 10:46:43 AM

On 9/19/06 the Palm Beach County Commissioners voted to sell Mecca Farms to developers to build 3,800+ homes. I am sure there was some palms greased and some pockets stuffed by our elected officials over this latest reaming of the public good!

MachineDog · September 20, 2006, 11:01:45 AM

OMG. 3800 HOMES? How the hell is Seminole Pratt going to hold this many cars?!

dnigels · September 20, 2006, 11:14:58 AM

We the tax payers will have to pony up to widen it, run utilities, build fire stations, schools etc. Thats not the end of it, there are an additional 20,000 homes planned by developers that already own land to the east (Vavrus) and the north.

I feel like we have been thrown down into the pit with the sodomites.

Grab your ankle folks.

MATT1969 · September 20, 2006, 12:35:13 PM

like i said its all a scam.thay buy the land with our money. call it a sensative place to get a tax break,and boom 2 years later its target or a bank or a 3800 home city.look at the okeechobee mud flats.its happing everywhere.oh ya when we buy it we also pay them to have the cops kick us out.