Lawsuit bans car buffs from shopping center

[Got the Bug]

Originally Posted by 427Aggie

The permit will make the holder responsible for the trash and any costs associated with the cleanup. Parking lot maintenance is part of CAM for the centers and as such is billed to the tenants, so you can see that if the costs go up the tenants pay for it and might not be happy. The only way to keep the bikes from causing the problem they did is to have the owner buy into the meet and the person with the permit must have off duty cops to do security and run them off. Its the only thing I've seen work. Problem is that your aren't going to find many shopping center owners willing to do it. We won't let them have meets in our centers, mainly for the liability.

That's how they've made the Santa Clara get together work. One person's name is on the permit. He's got a group of volunteers who do any clean up that's necessary. Amazingly enough, they haven't had any problems and people don't leave any trash behind. You'd have to be an idiot to do a "spirited exit", since you see police driving by and the police station is right around the corner.

We'll see how long it holds together.

Luckily, our local Cobra groups have a couple of restaurants that welcome our attendance. They probably get up to 40 or more Cobras, Coupes, and GT40's on a nice summer Saturday at the Rock House in Livermore.