Members-only racetrack moves forward with development east of DIA [Video]

WATKINS, Colo. — Residents of a Watkins neighborhood feel a major racetrack being built nearby doesn’t belong in their agricultural community and are concerned about the noise it will generate.

When Lisa Tublet de Nermont’s family moved to Watkins more than a decade ago, they had two things in mind.

“We came out here for the peace and quiet,” she said.

Her backyard has rolling views of wheat fields, and you can easily make out Denver International Airport, too.

“But the planes come and go—they’re not constantly circling our house,” said Tublet de Nermont.

She and her neighbors have learned to live with that noise over the years, but a new potentially noisy neighbor poses another nuisance: a major racetrack proposed for the nearby lot.

“We went to some of the Adams County meetings and started protesting against it and trying to get them not to do it,” said Benjie …