Ideas to deter boy racers to be collected, sent out

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Residents' ideas on deterring boy racers from using Warrington domain will be collected after Thursday's public meeting and sent out as a survey, Waikouaiti Coast Community Board chairman Alasdair Morrison says.

About 50 people attended a meeting at Warrington Memorial Hall to discuss boy racer convoys heading to Warrington domain. Residents are concerned about noise and damage to the domain's surface.

Mr Morrison said a few residents gave Powerpoint demonstrations, most focusing on how to deter boy racers with landscape changes, while not ruining genuine visitors' enjoyment.

Someone jokingly suggested the floodlights from Carisbrook could be commandeered to bathe the area in light.

Mr Morrison told the Otago Daily Times a lock-and-key solution was not an option because the domain was fringed with houses. Many domains in the Dunedin area are locked at night.

Next week, suggestions would be mailed as a survey to residents and crib owners, to be returned by the end of this month.

The community board would hold a special meeting next month to make a decision, rather than wait until the scheduled community board meeting in September.

It was important the issue was resolved speedily, Mr Morrison said.

- eileen.goodwin@odt.co.nz

 

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